Cate Blanchett as Maid Marion in NOTTINGHAM?

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Replacing Sienna Miller in Ridley Scott's NOTTINGHAM could be Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. Mark Strong, who is playing the villainous Guy of Gisbourne in NOTTINGHAM told The Telegraph...

"I think Cate Blanchett is set to take the Maid Marian part...She is a wonderful actress and it would make it a much classier film if she was in it,"

Much classier film? Is Strong hinting that it was Miller's persona and attitude that lost her the part of Marion earlier this year and not what those gossip rags claimed when they said the love scenes between her and Crowe would look odd because they are on different sides of the weight scale? Love Blanchett, each and every year she gives a performance which completely shows up her peers. Though in summer blockbuster fare (I thought she was mis-cast in INDIANA JONES IV), we never get to see her best work, but alongside Crowe, I think it will work just fine. Ridley Scott should direct this movie in the Spring with Russell Crowe leading as both Robin Hood AND The Sheriff of Nottingham. Brian Helegland (A KNIGHT'S TALE, MYSTIC RIVER) came uop with the story that BULLETPROOF MONK writers Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris turned into a screenplay. via - coming soon