Robin Hood
Taron Egerton promises that hisRobin Hoodwill be dissimilar to premature payoff on the character - and the mythology in general . The Welsh actor is currently in cinemas withKingsman : The Golden Circle , the subsequence to his breakout hitThe Secret Service . But while that ’s become a bona fide franchise in its own right , wee him a star and putting him alongside a legion of Oscar winners , he ’s not go to be just a undercover agent .
The next giving photographic film for Egerton will beRobin Hood , an blood line story that looks at how the humanistic Loxley stealer occur to be . The film puts him alongsideJamie Foxx as Little John , Ben Mendelsohn as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Tim Minchin as Friar Tuck - and if that did n’t already sound dissimilar enough , the actor tell it ’s moving away from a pile of what ’s in many previous takes on the character .
Screen Rantrecently sit down down with Taron to tattle aboutKingsman 2and asked about how his reading of Robin Hood will stand out from what ’s come before . In inadequate , he allege that it will be moving aside from the iconography everyone knows :
" I think it will be less ego - reverential than the Robin Hoods that have come before . I think the trouble with Robin Hood sometimes is that … I love the Kevin Costner one and I retrieve there were some peachy moments in the Russell Crowe one as well , but they ’re very , very , very ' Robin Hood - y ' . Ours is less Robin Hood - y. It ’s grittier , it ’s darker , it ’s a Robin Hood for the 21st Century . If you ’ve seen Peaky Blinders , you ’ll have sex something of the smell of it as it ’s the same director . "
The actor carefully head off throwing shadiness on the previous iterations but makes clear that what he ’s working on is go to be very dissimilar prospect . There ’s unconvincing to be the green chapeau and tights that are typically associated with the graphic symbol and instead a grounded feel that posit what a " from ample to short " outlaw would operate like in real life-time . This was somewhat unfeigned of theRussell Crowe / Ridley Scott picture show in 2010 , although as Egerton alludes that is n’t too well - regarded .
His key visual sensation seems to be a focus on the darkness ofPeaky Blinders , a very naturalistic mobster drama set in 1920s Birmingham . That aver , the actor has also say the motion picture will be " very rummy " , so there ’s sure to be some tonal counterweight .
Inour interview with Egerton , we also touched on the cinema ’s deed . Throughout pre - production , the movie was make out asRobin Hood : Origins , which was changed before the 2017 production to the simple graphic symbol name . Egerton did n’t complicate on reason behind the alteration but did seem rather relieved the flick had set down the somewhat controversial subtitle .
Going away from what audiences know about Hood while get such a definitive title may sound rather bold , but considering the turn of similarly inspired projects on the agency -Margot Robbie ’s Maid Marion pic , Justin Lin and Alex Kurtzman ’s advanced take , anda future - ready adventure- going down - and - dirty may be one style to really stand out .
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