Robin Hood Posters Promise The Story You Don't Know

Robin Hood

The first posters for the 2018Robin Hoodspotlight star Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx as Robin Hood and John ( who is n’t " little " in this version , it seems ) . Lionsgate has shifted the moving-picture show ’s release date back a couple times , but come along to in conclusion be contented with its current Fall 2018 launch frame . The studio even debutedRobin Hoodfootage in public for the first clock time last calendar month , during its movie presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas .

Once calledRobin Hood : Origins , the movie ( as its former title suggests ) is an origin report that explore how Robin of Loxley ( Egerton ) went from hardened soldier to heroic outlaw after returning home from the Crusade to England . Rogue One : A Star Wars StoryandReady Player One ’s Ben Mendelsohn add up another villain role to his smash withRobin Hood , where he plays the infamously corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham . Other fundamental player in the film include Eve Hewson ( The Knick ) as Maid Marian , comedian Tim Minchin as Friar Tuck , and Christian Grey himself ( aka . Jamie Dornan ) as Will Scarlet .

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Lionsgate has now unveiled posters for both Egerton ’s Robin Hood and Foxx as John on the film’sTwitteraccount . The Egerton poster in particular includes thetagline"The hero you fuck . The story you don’t"(whereas the tagline for Foxx ’s bill is simply"Survivor , warrior , mentor " ) . Considering just how many Robin Hood pic have been made already , one defendant that claim isn’tquiteas exact as Lionsgate would have you believe .

Like last year’sKing Arthur : Legend of the Sword , Robin Hoodre - imagines a classic sept hero for the years of the superhero moving-picture show . ( fable of the Swordcowriter Joby Harold also worked onRobin Hood ’s script , as it were.)Deadlineeven describes theRobin HoodCinemaCon footage as"faster , spruce , more ' scrunch up Tiger , Hidden Dragon ' in its tone"than live - actionRobin Hoodfilms past . That ’s a far cry from either Kevin Costner ’s swashbuckling adventureRobin Hood : Prince of Thievesor Ridley Scott ’s portrait of the Robin Hood story as a dingy historical state of war film , to name two oft - cited examples .

Robin Hooddirector Otto Bathurst did show a knack for stylishly see historical setting with his work onPeaky Blinders , so that omen well for the film . At the same time , Lionsgate ’s multiple sack date delays could be a sign of trouble with the last moving-picture show ware . Moreover , Robin Hoodwill face some stiff contest from the sequelCreed 2over its opening frame , among other films debut that week . The outlook may ameliorate once the drone forRobin Hooddrops , but for now it seems like this might be anotherLegend of the Sword - level boxful office disappointment in the making .