SIENNA MILLER - SIENNA MILLER TO PLAY MAID MARIAN IN ROBIN HOOD REMAKE

SIENNA MILLER TO PLAY MAID MARIAN IN ROBIN HOOD REMAKE

Sienna Miller has revealed that she is to play Maid Marian in Sir Ridley Scott's upcoming Robin Hood film.

The Stardust actress will star alongside Russell Crowe in the film, likely to be entitled Nottingham, she confirmed today.

"It's happening. I just found out. It's the most exciting news in the world," she told the BBC.

However, the film's progress could be hampered by the impending possibility of an actor's strike, the 26-year-old actress admitted.

"It's ridiculous. But there's this looming actor's strike, so it's not 100 per cent sure that it's going to be made, but it's looking pretty certain."

Miller, speaking while on promotion duties for her new film The Edge of Love, said working with the team behind Gladiator was "as good as it gets" and that she "could not have a better part".

Crowe and Scott have collaborated on five occasions, most recently on American Gangster, while Crowe's turn as Maximus in Scott's Oscar-winning Gladiator transformed his career

The director revealed in February that the film is to be shown from the sheriff's point of view, returning to England as the late King Richard's right-hand man "to carry forward Richard's dream about England".

While Richard's brother, the unpopular new king John, arouses discontent through introducing taxation and arresting outlaws, the sheriff's attempt to instill order are threatened by the anarchical exploits of Robin Hood.