Men in Skirts

Speaking with MTV, Producer Brian Grazer calls the upcoming Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe flick Nottingham "the Gladiator version of Robin Hood." It tells the story of Robin Hood from the Sheriff’s point of view.

“Richard the Lionheart is on his return from the Crusades {when he takes} an arrow in his neck and die{s},” Scott said of the flick’s set-up. “His brother, John, [becomes king.]”
John, known in his own life as John Lackland (because as the youngest son he didn’t get any inheritance) “was actually pretty smart,” Scott insisted. “[But] he got a bad rap because he introduced taxation. So he’s the bad guy in this.”
Meanwhile, “You’ve got the returning Nottingham who is the right hand man of Richard and witnesses Richard taking the arrow,” Scott revealed. “And so he comes back to England to carry forward Richard’s dream about England.”
The Sheriff, then, strives to do right while caught in the middle of two wrongs – on one side a corrupt and unpopular King who orders him to arrest outlaws, on the other the outlaw himself who threatens to rouse the public in popular anarchy. [from MTV - sorry about the brackets, they don't seem to understand verb tense over there]

Chatting over breakfast, the spiky-haired producer also called Dep "The Cinderella Man of styling gel", and marmalade "The Master and Commander of fruit spreads".