Deleted and Altered Scenes
In the special edition DVD, it is revealed that the Sheriff of Nottingham is actually Mortianna's son. She had kidnapped and murdered the real child of the previous Sheriff of Nottingham and substituted her own offspring to put her own seed on the throne of England by marrying him to a royal. This is hinted at in the regular cut of the film, when she says of Marian: "She is ripe. She will give us a son." This development was left intact in the novelization.
The novelization also retains the original scene order involving one scene in which Robin rubs himself with manure to gain entry to the castle. As he enters, he sees the guard whose nose he recently broke, and he is later told by Marian that he should "take a bath." In the film, the manure scene is moved to the final climax part of the story, causing a minor continuity error with the guard and removing the context of Marian's statement.
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