Summer of Blood

What it says up there:

From: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 18 January 2010 08:45:58 GMT
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Black Death Screening Tonight Cancelled

Morning

As the release of Black Death has moved back to May, we have cancelled the screening of the film today – we are looking to re-schedule this for next week so please bear with me but there will be no screening of Black Death tonight.

Best

xxxxxxx

There will be Sean Bean fanatics all over the WWW gnashing their teeth…

Update: Screening rescheduled for next Thursday…

Hat tip to the enthusiastic forum bods on Sean Bean Online who seem much more optimistic than I was in my earlier post about Black Death, which I am going to see on Monday.

They’ve collected lots of links to screen-shots from the movie, although I’m still yet to see a trailer. Check out this one, below. I was mildly chided by the poster ‘moonflower’ for being unduly pessimistic about the prospective quality of the film and musing that it looked like it might be ‘pestilential cack’.

Moonflower is right. It’s no good judging a film - still less a film starring the mighty Sean Bean - before you’ve seen it. I stand corrected, at least until Monday evening.

'Black Death': as yet not certified to be pestilential cack

Here’s an early trailer for next year’s Ridley/Russell film of the Robin Hood story.

Looks dark. Looks like it contains what the movie certification people call ‘moderate peril’. Looks like Russell Crowe still only has one acting register. (See here for the best Crowe parody ever.) Looks, in the words of one critic, like a re-run of Gladiator. Only with tights.

Still, I’ll go and see it.