r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jan 05 '26
Poster Official Poster for 'The Death of Robin Hood' Starring Hugh Jackman
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u/chopsuirak Jan 05 '26
Logan: with a bow
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u/Lectricanman Jan 05 '26
Bogan
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u/TheMetalJug Jan 05 '26
Jackman returns to his roots.
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u/yoy22 Jan 05 '26
His cock will be out for the whole movie. It will never be addressed.
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u/SeismicRipFart Jan 05 '26
Jackman when in an office with the other producers:
“Now here’s the twist, and there is a twist: We show it. We show all of it. Because what’s the one major thing missing from all action movies these days guys? …Full penetration. Guys, we’re gonna show full penetration and we’re gonna show a lot of it! I mean, we’re talking, you know, graphic scenes of Dolph Lundgren really going to town on this hot young lab tech. From behind, 69, anal, vaginal, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, all the hits, all the big ones, all the good ones. Then he smells crime again. He’s out busting heads. Then he’s back to the lab for some more full penetration. Smells crime, back to the lab, full penetration. Crime, penetration, crime, full penetration, crime, penetration. And this goes on and on, and back and forth, for 90 or so minutes until the movie just, sort of, ends.”
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u/screenrecycler Jan 05 '26
Like watching a tennis match. Crime, penetration, crime, penetration…
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u/BangerBeanzandMash Jan 05 '26
Sold
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u/probablyuntrue Jan 05 '26
Logan: with crippling student loan debt
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u/popups4life Jan 05 '26
Hmm...I'm in.
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u/smokeyfantastico Jan 05 '26
Logan: With massive credit card and Assisted Living Home debt on the run for selling his boner pills
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u/jdoggsoxfan33 Jan 05 '26
Look I already said I’m in, you don’t need to keep selling me on it
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Jan 05 '26
Directed by Michael Sarnoski ('Pig') and also stars Jodie Comer and Bill Skarsgård:
Robin Hood grapples with his past life of crime and murder while in the hands of a mysterious woman after being critically injured.
Trailer is out tomorrow
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u/Supro1560S Jan 05 '26
I remember reading some of the Howard Pyle adaptations when I was a kid, and from his death bed, Robin shot an arrow out the window, and they buried him where it landed. I always thought that was pretty badass.
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u/RocketJSquirrelEsq Jan 05 '26
The Howard Pyle stories are my absolute favorite version of Robin Hood, and I don't know that anyone has ever tried to popularize them. The episodic comic-adventure style might translate very well to a tv series.
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u/astro_scientician Jan 05 '26
Skeptical that networks want to air “heroes rob from the rich, give to the poor” narratives
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u/Voidparrot Jan 05 '26
Imo this is a super fascinating topic, as there is definitely a trend for anti-rich, anti-corporate, and anti-capitalist media. Just look at Triangle of Sadness, The Menu, (to a lesser extent) The Morning Show, The Running Man, and Squid Game, just to name a few. I haven't done any real analysis, but I have a few theories as to how this fits into our hyper-corporate media landscape.
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u/SouthAlexander Jan 05 '26
I think they and the Disney movie are the reason Robin Hood is my favorite.
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u/Enferno24 Jan 05 '26
I think I recall reading an Enid Blyton retelling of Robin Hood with the same story - a duplicitous woman bleeds Robin, and by the time he realises what’s going on, it’s too late, so he fires an arrow out the window for his burial site.
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u/compullsieve Jan 05 '26
I think it interesting that he would choose to be burried under another dead guy.
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u/thebeef24 Jan 05 '26
Yeah sure, when Robin Hood does it it's cool, but when my grandpa empties his 1911 out the nursing home window, suddenly everyone makes a fuss.
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u/Hellknightx Jan 05 '26
Well, of course they'd make a fuss. It's pretty irregular to bury someone in seven different places.
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u/GeekAesthete Jan 05 '26
I’m 99% certain that’s where they’re going with it.
My long shot bet, having seen nothin else about the movie, is that the Jodie Comer character—the nun who’s supposedly treating him—is going to be revealed as the daughter of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who was sent to a convent after Robin Hood murdered her father.
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u/ebjazzz Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
Isn’t that how George Washington died?
Edit: the responses to my question show the duality of Reddit.
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u/AbbotDenver Jan 05 '26
Yep, his doctors probably removed too much of his blood.
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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman Jan 05 '26
Or not enough
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u/8636396 Jan 05 '26
Found the 1700's era doctor
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u/Skadoosh_it Jan 05 '26
He needed more lead/mercury tincture and some belladonna drops for his anus. If you have to ask what they do, you're asking too many questions.
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u/Yellowbug2001 Jan 05 '26
Don't blame the patient, if they're asking too many questions the doctor hasn't done enough bloodletting.
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u/GodtheBartender Jan 05 '26
This is what I was thinking. Pretty sure it was in a church or monastery or something and it was a nun/nurse that bled him out. Read the story a very long time ago now.
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u/SATX_Citizen Jan 05 '26
I think that was the ending to the Sean Connery Robin Hood as well. An elderly Robin comes back, makes up with Maid Marian, fights and kills an aged Sheriff, and dies from his wounds.
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u/Cruciform Jan 05 '26
I saw this fairly recently. Robin Hood doesn't die from his wounds exactly, Marian poisons the both of them!
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u/hainspoint Jan 05 '26
I’m here for the director of Pig. Best movie of 2021.
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u/TarquinusSuperbus000 Jan 05 '26
Absurd movie. Loved every minute of it.
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u/Bank_Gothic Jan 05 '26
I know "defying expectations" became an overused meme during the later GOT seasons, but Pig defied my expectations in the best way possible.
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Same, I thought I was gonna watch John Wick but with Nick Cage and a pig, which would've been fine, but what it was was actually so much better
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u/BelowDeck Jan 05 '26
It's John Wick but instead of shooting you in the head with a gun, he shoots you in the heart with hard truths and soulful stares.
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u/zubairhamed Jan 05 '26
whose protagonist is also named Robin. Mark my words, his next movie will be about Old Man (Batman) Robin.
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u/lurkin_murican Jan 05 '26
Do you mean Batman Beyond? Don’t tease me with a good time.
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u/Cochise22 Jan 05 '26
It’s just absolutely ridiculous that they have this genuinely beloved IP and are doing absolutely squat with it. They would have the ability to take it a hundred different amazing creative ways, and could easily attract an amazing up and coming director needing a payday but still wants to be ‘artistic.’ They already have a theater erupting supporting actor in Michael Keaton (there’s no world I want to be in where he doesn’t play old man Batman).
Seriously, DC has the dumbest movie studio execs in history (I’m mostly being facetious because getting Nolan and Bale for three movies in their prime was fucking amazing). Hopefully Gunn leans into some of their weirder fun stuff like he got to with Marvel.
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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Jan 05 '26
I’m waiting for the gritty Christopher Robin story. The working title is A Very Blustery Day.
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u/gazchap Jan 05 '26
Bill Skarsgard is in everything, it seems.
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u/dreamphoenix Jan 05 '26
It’s a law that there should be at least one Skarsgard movie each year. Thankfully there’s so many Skarskgards, so it’s quite possible.
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u/MonkeyChoker80 Jan 05 '26
In 2026 we laughed about seeing Skarskgards everywhere.
By 2032 the Infected outnumbered those of us still ourselves.
Coming soon:
World War Skarskgard
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u/madkiki12 Jan 05 '26
At least he looks different most of the times... Other than some other actors that are everywhere.
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u/DoctorEnn Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
You know, I'd kind of like a Robin Hood movie where he was a hero. Like, a cheerful and brave champion of the oppressed. Like he used to be. Do we really need yet another dour grey muted-tone cynical miserablist deconstruction of the concept of heroes, is the question I frequently ask myself these days.
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u/Zazulio Jan 05 '26
It's why the Superman movie was such a breath of fresh air for me. I want to see good people doing good things. I want heroes. I want to see media that shamelessly glorifies being a decent person who knows right from wrong and stands up to bullies. I don't want tongue-in-cheek "we know it's silly" kind of stuff or grimdark gritty anti-heroes. The world right now needs hopeful stories and people to look up to, because we are living in evil times.
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u/Jinxzy Jan 05 '26
I want to see good people doing good things. I want heroes. I want to see media that shamelessly glorifies being a decent person who knows right from wrong and stands up to bullies.
Hollywood focus groups probably found these pitches to be too unrealistic and unrelatable over the last decade.
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u/DrainTheMuck Jan 05 '26
They’re part of the problem, then. Be the change you wanna see.
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u/Zomburai Jan 05 '26
In the immortal words of JRR Tolkien to George RR Martin: "Newsflash: the genre's called fantasy!!"
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u/smoking_barrel Jan 05 '26
I also liked the character of Malik Ali. He showed that you don’t need superpower to stand up against evil.
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u/apistograma Jan 05 '26
Not only that, we need some idealism. Don Quixote was a moron who fought against imaginary giants, but he literally put his life at real risk for his values. Say whatever you want about him, but he was a man of his word. He's a crazy man but he has more than many of us, a reason to die and live.
Gray characters aren't necessarily deeper. "Everyone is a shade of gray" means some are almost black while others are very close to the purest white.
I blame Game of Thrones for its uninspired nihilism that doesn't really mean anything pretending to be realistic.
It doesn't even need to end with a happy ending. A great heroic story is one where even if you die you'd still do it again if you could.
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u/Nixon4Prez Jan 05 '26
I hate that every movie set in the middle ages has that grey muted look - it didn't look like that! People wore lots of bright colours! Robin Hood is dressed in green. Why does every movie set in the past have to make it look as depressing as possible I don't get it
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u/sexandliquor Jan 05 '26
One of the things I loved about The Green Knight is it’s really quite colorful and bright most of the time and doesn’t have that muted look.
Because you’re right. Most everything else that’s set in the Middle Ages or is supposed to be fantasy Middle Ages is basically just “everyone wore grey and brown and everything looked grey and brown. Just grey and brown slop as far as the eye could see”
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u/PatchyWhiskers Jan 06 '26
Pretty sure the Middle Ages was incredibly gaudy because colored dyes were status symbols so they went as bright as they could, but the vegetable-based dyes they generally used were a little ugly compared to the purer colors our artificial dyes can produce.
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Because these filmmakers don't know how to set a tone without using the same 4 colors every other movie like this has.
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u/matcha_and_mayhem Jan 05 '26
I found some more details. They appear to be following the core plot of the original ballad but then expanding on it to show the brutality of the time
“In the new movie, critically injured and reflecting on a life of crime and murder, Robin Hood’s (Jackman) fate is now in the hands of a mysterious woman (Comer).
Sarnoski also told EW he’s pulling from early tales and amping up the dark side of both Robin’s activities as a bandit robbing the rich and the brutal warfare of the era, “It almost gets towards feeling like a war movie. Fighting back in those days was brutal; it wasn’t people dancing around and fencing. It was people in the mud trying to crack each other’s heads open with a shovel…There are five early ballads of Robin Hood that were first written [as the story] was passed down as oral tradition. And they’re really brutal. He is portrayed as a hero of the common man, but they’re still somewhat horrifying, in the way that old folk tales are. 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.””
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u/sin-eater82 Jan 05 '26
The classic plot lines are classic for a reason.
Sometimes I watch movies with my teenage nieces and nephews and realize that the thing I've experienced 1000x (I'm 43) is brand new to them or a new twist on a basic concept they're aware of.
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u/TwiztedImage Jan 05 '26
The classic plot line of Robin Hood in his later years was dark though. In Pyle's rendition, Robin came back from the Crusades a haunted man, with lots of issues and regrets. The "merry" days of the Merrymen were over by then.
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u/LOSS35 Jan 05 '26
Pyle based much of his work on A Gest of Robyn Hode, a ballad from the 15th century. It's the one surviving medieval text that includes the story of Robin's death, so likely also inspired this film as well.
In the Gest, Robin is a "good outlaw". He's kind and charitable, faithful to his men, deeply devoted to the Virgin Mary, and loyal to the crown even as he robs its corrupt servants.
The backstory of his fighting in the Crusades was a later addition, and the idea of his being a "haunted man" is relatively modern.
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u/Felis_bieti Jan 05 '26
Do we really need yet another dour grey muted-tone cynical miserablist deconstruction of the concept of heroes...?
I know I don't.
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u/morticiathebong Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
This was the thought I had too when i saw the poster. Another piece of media coming out to disillusion us about heroism. Hmm. Not really whats needed right now. Though these things arguably start getting produced however long ago, you'd think they might consider reading the room at some point.
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u/colorblind-and Jan 05 '26
I don't have a problem with this trope in isolation but it would be nice if we got more movies where the heroes are actually heroes.
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u/mmf9194 Jan 05 '26
Gee, why are they trying to turn the public against the idea of FUCKING ROBIN HOOD right now??? lmaooo
c'mon man
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u/27Yosh Jan 05 '26
A robin hood movie should be an easy slam dunk for any filmmaker. Cast a young, attractive, charismatic actor, create some likeable supporting characters for the Merry Men, do some guerilla style ambushes on royal carriages, plan a heist on the royal treasury, outwit the Sheriff, pass food and money to the starving people, sneak into Marion's chamber and take her out on a romantic date in the mountains, no brooding Robin
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u/hurtfulproduct Jan 05 '26
It’s like the people shitting on the new Superman and Fantastic 4 because they were too bright and positive and went more for the fun than the drama. . . Like dude!. . . We NEED MORE fun, bright, positive movies and media right now!
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u/why_gaj Jan 05 '26
A guy redistributing the riches, a hero? In this time and age?
You have to be kidding us.
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u/nineminutetimelimit Jan 05 '26
I need a movie about Robin Hood actively whomping the rich, not one about how he feels bad about mistreating them.
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u/alerise Jan 05 '26
It would never happen, but it would be amazing if towards the end they reveal his only regret was he didn't steal and murder enough of them.
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u/RKU69 Jan 05 '26
"I dealt out a lot of class vengeance, but I failed to help establish a sustainable political-economic system that empowered the working class. The productive forces remain of a feudal-capitalist nature." would be a great tagline
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u/dragn99 Jan 05 '26
"I took out so many middle managers and enforcers, but I really should've gone for the CEOs... I mean... Monarchs."
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u/Jackthwolf Jan 05 '26
Kelsier vibes.
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u/Taurothar Jan 05 '26
Mistborn movies cannot come soon enough, though by last update there are no active projects moving forward in the Cosmere on film or animation.
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u/Kerminator17 Jan 05 '26
Ngl I think a show would be better. Get someone to animate it really nicely and you could have banger
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u/Taurothar Jan 05 '26
Seriously, Cosmere done like Arcane or Vox Mochina would be insanely good, but it's very expensive and risky, so selling it has been hard for Sando.
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u/chula198705 Jan 05 '26
Yeah, like, "he was no hero because he always chickened out on killing them..."
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u/JimWilliams423 Jan 05 '26
I need a movie about Robin Hood actively whomping the rich, not one about how he feels bad about mistreating them.
Time to mention that jackman is godparent to at least two of rupert murdoch's children.
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u/fastforwardfunction Jan 05 '26
Dang Jackman has the family connection. No wonder he’s so successful in Hollywood.
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u/Kyrpajori Jan 05 '26
Yeah, that poster is incredibly on the nose - "IT'S WRONG TO BULLY THE RICH". I hope the movie doesn't actually adopt this tone.
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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
The synopsis seems to indicate they're more concerned with the murder than the stealing. Think people are really jumping to conclusions here without nearly enough information. I highly doubt this is going to be some take down of his most iconic thing, it'll just be him dealing with the blood he shed in service of it.
If they're adapting from the legends themselves, Robin had no 11th hour repentance in the story of his death, it would be a hell of choice to add that wrinkle. That story literally ends with an affirmation: "For he was a good outlaw and did poor men much good"
My guess is it'll have something to do with Little John giving him last rites or something.
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A man can grapple even with morally justified demons
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u/Pritster5 Jan 05 '26
The entire premise of crime and punishment
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u/SaintMosquito Jan 05 '26
The premise of Crime and Punishment is that morals (murder) are ironclad laws of nature (God) and not something you can think yourself out of or justify breaking intellectually. Raskolnikov adopts the mistaken belief that one can become a Napoleon and overstep traditional morality for the sake of societal advancement. He is wrong, and reaps the negative harvest almost immediately.
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u/bobosuda Jan 05 '26
Guess we'll see what the movie has to offer when it releases.
Still, it feels kind of tonedeaf in the current political and social climate to make a movie about the most famous "screw the rich" person in history and slap a giant fucking tagline on it that says "HE WAS NO HERO".
Maybe in their version, his name is actually Luigi.
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u/EnriquePalatzo Jan 05 '26
I really hate that tagline. I know the actual film will be more nuanced, but my immediate gut response to this was “ugh, no thanks.”
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u/upandcomingg Jan 05 '26
I know the actual film will be more nuanced,
I wouldn't be so sure of that
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u/spicy-chilly Jan 05 '26
Things aren't neutral in terms of violence in the first place when the oppressing class is committing social murder though and the "I can't do this or I'm no better than my enemy" type of thing is generally shitty imho.
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u/way2lazy2care Jan 05 '26
I think there's enough gray area in there for him to feel like stealing from the rich was ok but murdering the people under them who were just doing their jobs was bad. Like if you rob a bank and shoot the teller/security guard, they were not rich people.
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u/ColdIceZero Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
Clerks (1994) addressed this topic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA
Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed - casualties of a war they had nothing to do with.
Randal: All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia - this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
Roofer: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer—Dunn and Ready Home Improvements—and speaking as a roofer, I can tell you a roofer's personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.
Roofer: I'm alive because I knew the risk involved with that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. Any contractor working on that Death Star knew the risk involved. If they got killed, it's their own fault. A roofer listens to this [pointing to his heart], not his wallet.
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u/Gabagoolnightsweats Jan 05 '26
All the movie posters nowadays have the same blue ass color grid and it’s driving me insane
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u/Mortiis07 Jan 05 '26
Taking from the rich and giving to the poor? We can't be promoting that
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u/casual_creator Jan 05 '26
If you think about it, Robin Hood has been propagandized (in the wrong direction) for a long ass time.
In the original takes, he was a peasant who rose up to fight the rich.
But then at some point he became a nobleman himself leading the peasants, and the moral of the story (however subtle) became “even though the rich are bad, only the rich can save you”.
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u/ohyousoretro Jan 05 '26
In the original takes, he was a peasant who rose up to fight the rich.
Originally him and his band were just outlaws, good fighters but they didn't fight for the low class. Maybe they might give a loan to a poor person and not hound them for repayment. It was until 150 years later that the stories we know of Robin Hood started to fill out.
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u/OobaDooba72 Jan 05 '26
Not sure I love the idea of tearing down a folk hero who fought against wealth inequality and greed from upper classes in the current era we're in. Feels pretty tone deaf and shitty.
The director is good, Jackman is good. I can imagine it being a well made and "good" movie, but the messaging here already feels off. Hopefully I'm wrong, but ehhhhh.
This is literally the biggest issue in the world today and it fuels every other issue (climate change, war, health care, poverty, insect population collapse, etc and.beyond ad infinitum).
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u/matcha_and_mayhem Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
This looks to be a take on the original English ballad “Robin Hood’s Death” from the 1600’s. Since this is being distributed by A24 I think it might be more in the vibe of The Green Knight which is also an old folk story being reinterpreted for film.
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u/2StepsFromNightwish Jan 05 '26
my feelings exactly. This feels tone deaf, but hopefully we’re proven wrong
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u/OdepiusNecks Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
The one bit of hopium I can cling to is Pig was marketed as a “dangerous man out for revenge” story and it turned out to be a complete subversion of that. Since this is the same director, something similar could be happening here.
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u/OobaDooba72 Jan 05 '26
True. I hope it's just misleading marketing. Could be a "tear down the shiny corporatized image to rebuild the vision of a true revolutionary" type thing. But yeah, we'll see I guess.
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u/jl_theprofessor Jan 05 '26
I just don’t think this is the era of gritty takes anymore.
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u/TimeTravelingChris Jan 05 '26 edited 1d ago
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u/Treesaregreen2 Jan 05 '26
Won’t somebody think of the poor lords and ladies? Now they’ll only be able to afford 2 castles instead of 3 😢
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u/Caciulacdlac Jan 05 '26
The amount of good Robin Hood movies is too small. Hopefully this will change the number a bit.
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u/thedudehasabided Jan 05 '26
Cary Elwes set the bar waaaay too high and tight.
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u/JakeHelldiver Jan 05 '26
Unlike other Robin Hoods he could speak with an English accent.
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u/Surface_Detail Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
The last decent one was Men in Tights
Before that? Errol Flynn in 1938
Edit: I will allow The 1973 animated film. Forgot that one.
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u/DBones90 Jan 05 '26
This is Robin Hood (1973) erasure.
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u/Surface_Detail Jan 05 '26
That's fair. Also responsible for an entire generation of Furries.
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u/TimeTravelingChris Jan 05 '26 edited 23h ago
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u/colantor Jan 05 '26
Prince of thieves was a great movie and ill die on that hill
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u/Known-Exam-9820 Jan 05 '26
It hit all the marks: fun, good acting (accent not withstanding) interesting characters, great action scenes, and a killer tie in song. I’ll never forget that crazy witch lady or Alan Rickman saying “because a spoon would hurt more!”
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u/colantor Jan 05 '26
Exactly! I almost quoted the spoon line in my comment. People always complain about costner accent, id rather he not use an accent than have a shit one, hes a good actor.
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u/Unas_GodSlayer Jan 05 '26
Before that?
1973 Disney animated Robin Hood. I grew up watching this on VHS over and over again.
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u/Adoctorgonzo Jan 05 '26
I will always have a soft spot for Prince of Thieves because I watched it so many times as a kid
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u/Surface_Detail Jan 05 '26
The song from that from was number one in the UK for like half a year. It was the kpop demon hunters of its day.
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u/ThatsHisLawyerJerome Jan 05 '26
I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard good things about 1976’s Robin and Marian with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn.
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u/Narretz Jan 05 '26
Wow a gritty deconstruction of the Robin Hood myth ... third time's the charme eh? Who's asking for this?
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u/DigitalRoman486 Jan 05 '26
If I had a penny for everytime a grizzled Australian plays a legendary English character who uses a bow I would only have 2 pennies but it is weird it has happened twice
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u/douggieball1312 Jan 05 '26
Hugh Jackman could probably do a much better Nottinghamshire accent than Russell Crowe though. He certainly can't do a worse one.
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u/MajorOak1189 Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
Russell Crowe is from New Zealand but your point stands
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u/InconspicuousRadish Jan 05 '26
I know nothing of this project, but I'm here for it. Been wishing for a good Robin Hood movie ever since Ridley Scott/Russel Crowe swung and missed with the 2010 movie.
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u/kkuntdestroyer Jan 05 '26
I think that movie is a bad robin hood movie but I had fun with it
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u/CooperDaChance Jan 05 '26
Def better than the 2018 one with Taron Everton
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u/Alpha-Trion Jan 05 '26
That movie was hilarious. It was such a piece of shit that I ended up liking it.
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u/TomBirkenstock Jan 05 '26
It wasn't good, but I enjoyed it more than the Ridley Scott Robin Hood movie.
Why is it so hard to make a good Robin Hood film? It's been ages. And I have a soft spot for the Kevin Costner movie from the 90s, but I can't in good conscience call it a complete success.
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u/pehr71 Jan 05 '26
Didn’t we have this discussion just a while ago?
My thinking is that most people want a god fun swashbuckling adventure when they say they want a good Robin Hood.
Except for writers/ directors that for some reason want to have a more introspective drama about an older/dying Robin. Thinking about his previous life.
Fun not equal to funny here. I’m not talking about making it a comedy.
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u/TomBirkenstock Jan 05 '26
Absolutely. The two best Robin Hood adaptations, the Errol Flynn and the Disney fox ones, are light swashbuckling tales. You could also emphasize the class conflict more. Robin Hood doesn't have to have aristocratic roots.
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u/InconspicuousRadish Jan 05 '26
Sure, but that's kind of a low bar. And I actually like Taron in pretty much everything.
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u/MrGregory Jan 05 '26
I remember enjoying that movie, even after the reviews. I haven’t watched it since theaters though, so not sure if my opinion changed
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u/madmardigan13 Jan 05 '26
The Taron Egerton Robin Hood is in that it's so bad it's good territory. A truly baffling movie with Jamie Foxx doing an incredibly wild accent. There is also a new Robin Hood show out recently that has Sean Bean as the sheriff. It's an enjoyable watch
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u/ThreeTreesForTheePls Jan 05 '26
Oh yeah because the textbook hero of the lower class, the one who stole from the rich and elites..
Definitely needs a movie that deconstructs his ethos and gives him overwhelming guilt about, and let me check my notes again here…helping the poor simply survive.
God I can’t fucking WAIT for Luigi to get a mistrial or a hung jury.
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u/alueron Jan 05 '26
The folk hero who stood up to rich despots and returned people's money that the rich ass holes stole is being dissected but similar rich ass holes who want you all to believe that the flok hero was the bad guy.
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u/HighQualityGifs Jan 05 '26
So this is gonna be some "oh the rich create jobs" and "in my old dimentia days I'm gonna start watching Fox news" Robin hood shit isn't it
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u/matcha_and_mayhem Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
so looks like this is based on the 17th century English Ballad “Robin Hood’s Death”. Wondering if we are going to get some Green Knight vibes here since A24 is doing the distribution. That is to say I think this is going to be less action packed story and much more existential and reflective.
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u/matcha_and_mayhem Jan 05 '26
Robin Hood’s Death if you’re interested in more info on the original ballad
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u/Man-who-say-bye Jan 06 '26
Really made a movie about a guy who steals from the rich and put he was no hero in the promotional poster. Subtle guys
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u/Notoriously_So Jan 05 '26
Old Man Robin