Like cicadas gestating or a wild animal migration, Hollywood dusts off the Robin Hood IP each seven years for an additional swing on the Sherwood bandit story. Maybe with wealth inequality at an all-time excessive, the story of the legendary crusader for the poor will ring a bell with right now’s viewers. Though within the new movie, The Dying of Robin Hood, starring Hugh Jackman
and directed by Michael Sarnoski, Hood’s males is likely to be rather less merry as this guarantees to be a darker tackle the fiscal redistributor.
In keeping with Deadline, the movie simply added to its roster Invoice Skarsgård
of Nosferatu, Murray Bartlett (who had a star-making flip in The White Lotus) and Noah Jupe, who was additionally in Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place. Sarnoski spoke with Collider whereas selling Quiet Place: Day One final 12 months and gave some perception into his course of in bringing a brand new dimension to the acquainted character:
“I wrote that script proper earlier than coming onto A Quiet Place. I form of made a take care of myself the place, if I used to be gonna do a giant studio film, I wished to verify I had my smaller ardour undertaking within the wings that I might be enthusiastic about. So, I wrote it proper earlier than scripting this and have simply form of been taking part in with it within the background…It has a type of completely different model of the epic Robin that we’re used to, whereas additionally a really intimate story that is going all through, as properly. So, it will have a little bit bit for everybody in that sense.”
Going Again To The Robin Hood Nicely
Robin Hood lives in one thing much more enchanting than Sherwood Forest – the general public area. And that is why studios can not help however mine the swashbuckling IP for all the pieces it is received. From the early days of Errol Flynn, to Kevin Costner’s torpid and accentless take within the 90s, to Taron Egerton’s laughable Darkish Knight ripoff in 2018, some model of Robin Hood is normally proper across the nook. Fashionable retellings all the time appear to overlook the bullseye in a method or one other. However what Robin Hood represents to class battle and inequality is extra exigent than ever, and Sarnoski’s darker take about an getting old, wounded Robin Hood may function a mirrored image of our fashionable crumbling establishments and social security nets.
The Hollywood machine has been benefiting from IPs within the public area just lately, with a continuing stream of low-cost, soiled slasher motion pictures being primarily based round some a lot cherished youngsters’s tales, comparable to these about Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan. Whereas the brand new tackle Robin Hood is predicted to be darker and extra brutal than most of the earlier itterations of the legend of the British outlaw, it in all probability will not be going fairly so far as a few of these motion pictures. Thank Friar Tuck for that. Manufacturing on the movie begins in Eire this week and it is going to be distributed within the US by A24. No launch date has been set for the movie as of this writing.
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A Quiet Place: Day One director Michael Sarnoski affords some fascinating perception into his darkish Robin Hood film as he prepares for pre-production.