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TIFF 2010

Alan Doyle and Kevin Durand star in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (Courtesy of Universal Pictures)


Oscar winner Russell Crowe reunites with visionary Gladiator director Ridley Scott to reveal the untold story of Robin Hood. This heart-pumping action adventure, written by Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, L.A. Confidential), transports viewers to the medieval battlefields of 13th century England and serves as a prequel to the popular tale chronicling the archer’s rise to legendary hero.

Cineplex.com got a chance to sit down with actors Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle, who play a few of Robin Hood's right-hand Merry Men, to talk about the film prior to its DVD release.

CINEPLEX: What is the appeal of both Robin Hood the legend and this particular film?

Alan Doyle: The appeal is really the classic tale of good over evil and good from the most common sense. He’s not a prince, he’s not some god or superhero. He’s the average guy versus society who speaks for every man and calls the higher powers to task.

Kevin Durand: As for the film, Ridley and Russell and the whole gang really attacked this in a way that makes this a Robin Hood we haven’t seen before. This is an origin story explaining how these guys came together, what this one man whose story has been told for over thousands of years did to become so compelling that we’re still making movies.

CINEPLEX: Can you talk about what differentiates this film from the Robin Hoods we’ve seen before?

KD: What our film does is lead up to what people understand is the beginning of the Robin Hood story. We weren’t trying to re-tell or re-imagine what people had seen. We’re trying to provide something that came before it. People only really know the story of Robin Hood from the last fifty years of television and film and they think of it as verbatim. But they forget that there’s hundreds of years of actual tales, ballads and songs that have been written about these characters.

AD: Our film places the story of Robin Hood in time in a way that hasn’t happened before. Ridley and Russell tried to place him in a real scenario that would have set up the legend of Robin Hood, creating a historically responsible platform in which upon we could then build elements of the fantastic.

CINEPLEX: Kevin you mentioned the ballads, which are the oldest existing form of the Robin Hood legends, written between the 14th and 17th centuries. Did the cast and crew go back and read any of them?

AD: Coming from a folk music background that’s actually where I heard about Robin Hood first. One of the first encounters I had was the story of Robin Hood and Allan A’Dayle in a song. [Ed.'s Note: Doyle is the lead singer or Maritime folk band Great Big Sea]

KD: The whole path that Ridley and Russell went down was noble. They looked at the actual texts, ignored the last 100 years of television and film and that character we know of Robin Hood or think we know. Traditionally, Little John is always represented as a little slow and a little cartoony. When you go back to the ballads and you see, even the early drawings of Little John, how he was presented, he was seven feet tall, a leader of men and intelligent. I wanted to make him a real warrior and I got that from the earlier texts, not from the films I had seen.

CINEPLEX: What can fans of the film expect to see on DVD that they didn’t see in theatres?

KD: Well you really have to go the Blu-ray combo pack route because you get the DVD, Blu-ray and a digital copy of the film along with lots of behind the scenes footage, 31 minutes of extra footage, deleted scenes, documentaries, etc. I think the coolest feature exclusively on the Blu-ray is the director’s notebook. Usually there’s just an audio commentary from the director that takes you through the film. This one actually has Ridley Scott in the bottom right hand corner of the screen talking about each scene and his process. It’s almost like going to a master class in filmmaking!

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The director’s cut of Robin Hood is available on September 21 but you can pre-order it now from the Cineplex DVD store.



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