This ain’t your grandpa’s “Robin Hood.” Farewell to Errol Flynn‘s incarnation or even Kevin Costner‘s hunky, blockbuster take. Next year’s reboot (or whatever) of the character is going to get some dirt under the fingernails and some blood on the knuckles. Yep, it’s going to be gritty.
“My Robin Hood, as with Kevin Costner‘s, he’s a soldier. We find him out in Syria. I don’t think that’s too much to say. He’s flawed, my Robin Hood. He’s a little self-involved and a little self-serving but over the course of the film becomes the hero of the legend. I suspect I’m probably one of the younger Robin Hoods but it’s very dark. Gritty. I’m hoping that it will be very funny,” star Taron Egerton said this fall. “Jamie Foxx is Little John. Ben Mendelsohn is the Sheriff of Nottingham. Tim Minchin is Friar Tuck. We’ve got some people with real, not only incredible acting skills but also great comic chops, as well. It should have a bit of everything.
Now the actor is doubling down on his emphasis on this adult-sounding version of the character, who steals from the rich and gives to poor.
“I was approached not long after the first ‘Kingsman’ movie had come out, and my initial response, to be totally honest, was ‘Why?’ [But director] Otto [Bathurst] told me he wanted to do something entirely revisionist, something that can’t be tied down to a medieval universe. The first act of the movie, these scenes crusading in Syria, were written like something from ‘The Hurt Locker.’ It was fantastic, and that was enough to convince me,” Egerton told EW.
Um….”The Hurt Locker”? Okay….
Also starring Eve Hewson and Maid Marian, “Robin Hood” opens on September 21, 2018.
