Sexy fox Robin Hood, this is not. The Death of Robin Hood, from Pig director Michael Sarnoski, declares in big text across the screen THE LEGEND WAS A LIE. Stealing from the rich to give to the poor? Merry thieves and whatnot? Nah. Purveyors of grimly brutal violence, more like.
This new trailer offers few additional details, though about a year ago, when Murray Bartlett and Bill Skarsgård joined Hugh Jackman in the cast, the synopsis said, “The story follows a battle-worn loner, grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, who finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of a mysterious woman, who offers him a chance at salvation.”
Said mysterious woman is played by Jodie Comer, who between this and 28 Years Later has been spending a lot of time on movies where her character exists without modern conveniences. Skarsgård is playing “a version of Little John,” as Sarnoski told Entertainment Weekly.
The director also said that he wants to keep Comer’s character a mystery, but the trailer seems not at all subtle about the connection between her and the little redhead Hugh Jackman’s Robin seems to be semi-mentoring. But perhaps we are reading too much into her carefully covered-up hair and her knowing looks.
Sarnoski said of his film’s origins, “There’s an old quote about Robin that sort of says he’s this murderous bandit who the common folk have decided to glorify, and I wanted to examine someone who was going through that in their lifetime, and trying to grapple with the role of storytelling and their actual identity.” Which sounds quite interesting—if you can sit through the brutality.
The Death of Robin Hood is “coming soon.”
