Robin Hood

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• Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett and Rachel Weisz were, in that order, the three main candidates in consideration to play Maid Marian. After Winslet turned the part down, Blanchett was offered the role. Since she accepted, Weisz didn't get the offer.
• Movie Goof (anachronisms): Many of the helmets used by Richard and his knights were of a style 200 years in the future from when the movie was set.
• Movie Goof (anachronisms): During the period in which this film is set, rulers would not have been called "Your Majesty," a term of address that was created in Tudor times. Earlier kings were addressed as "Your Grace."
• Movie Goof (errors in geography): Robin and the troops arriving from Nottingham meet up with William Marshal and his troops at the White Horse. The one in Uffington was the only one in existence at that time. Uffington is Northwest of London, approximately 160 miles (by modern driving routes) from Dungeness, where the French troops are landing. It's impossible that they would have arrived in the time depicted.