The first trailer for Taron Egerton’s Robin Hood reboot made it look mean and moody and just a little bit historically inaccurate. The second trailer threw out the moodiness and just went straight for the action. Judging by the latest trailer, history teachers around the country aren’t going to be too happy…
To be fair, Robin Hood never actually existed, so director Otto Bathurst has a bit of creative license to play with. On the other hand, the film is set in a real historical period, with real historical figures, so putting everyone in leather jackets and T-shirts (and tanks…) seems a wee bit odd.
By the looks of it, the film is going for an Assassin’s Creed meets Marvel approach – with lots of spinning aerial shots of medieval cities, slow-mo bullet time dives and Egerton being the cheekiest Hood since Disney’s cartoon fox. The action looks pretty intense too – with chariot chases and tank battles set against a lot of quick-fire arrow shoot outs, all stylishly shot by the guy who made some of the best Peaky Blinders episodes.
Robin Hood (which has now dropped the “Origins” title), is set for release on November 21st. Jamie Foxx co-stars as Robin’s Moorish army pal, Little John, with Ben Mendelsohn as the Sheriff of Nottingham, Eve Hewson as Maid Marian, Tim Minchin as Friar Tuck and Jamie Dornan as Will Scarlett.
Why do the arrows at the start all sound like bullets? Why are the mob all wearing patterned bandanas? Why does Mendelsohn look like he’s wearing Armani? Where did they get the T-shirts from? When did medieval women start using modern makeup? Why is Robin running away from a giant Raiders Of The Lost Ark style boulder? On fire?
Sorry, we’ll stop.
