Opposite: Royal archer Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) aims to spark a revolution in Robin Hood. This page, top: Robin leads his key men on horseback: Allan A’Dayle (Alan Doyle), Will Scarlet (Scott Grimes) and Little John (Kevin Durand). Middle: John Mathieson, BSC gets medieval with his light meter. Bottom: the newly crowned King John (Oscar Isaac) confers with a key adviser, Sir William Marshal (William Hurt). Photos by David Appleby, Kerry Brown and Greg Williams, courtesy of Universal Studios. historical period covered in Robin Hood. This meant that various elements of their visual approach to a story based around the Crusades had already been established, although the two films take place against quite different backdrops. Whereas Kingdom of Heaven incorporates dramatic desert landscapes in the Holy Land, Robin Hood plays out entirely in northern France and England. Scott brought up the work of the Brueghel dynasty of painters as a www.theasc.com June 2010 31http://www.theasc.com