Ridley Scott has been meaning to take on Robin Hood in one way or another for quite some time now. Personally, we think it’s throwing him off his true calling: killing off the Alien franchise that he invented with a Alien 5 that rights all the horrible storylines branched off of the series for Alien Vs. Predator.

But, now that Body of Lies, his latest with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio is closer to seeing release, he’s started talking, and he’s talking a revisionist Robin Hood…

We’d heard Russell Crowe would be Scott’s Sheriff of Nottingham, but then we started to hear he was Robin Hood (not Christian Bale as was previously rumored).

Looks like this adaptation will be a scarily revisionist one:

The news comes straight from the helmer himself, with Scott revealing “He’s playing both!” exclusively to MTV News during an interview for his new film “Body of Lies,” which co-stars Crowe. While Scott held additional details close to his chest — saying they would take too long to describe — he did exclaim that Crowe’s dual roles would be “a good old clever adjustment of characters. One becomes the other. It changes.”

All we can think is: but wasn’t one a fox and the other a lion?

But that’s a head-full-o-Disney for you.