Forget green tights and heroic speeches, Hugh Jackman’s Robin Hood is broken, bloody, and looking for redemption in The Death of Robin Hood, the newly unveiled dark reimagining from writer and director Michael Sarnoski.
Madman Entertainment has officially dropped the trailer for the film, which reworks the familiar outlaw myth into something far more intimate and unsettling. Best known for the emotional ride of Pig and the tension soaked A Quiet Place: Day One, Sarnoski appears to be steering Robin Hood away from folklore comfort and into moral reckoning.
This version of Robin is a man haunted by violence, grappling with the weight of a life built on crime and bloodshed, after being gravely injured in what he believes will be his final battle, Robin is taken in by a mysterious woman who offers him something he’s never truly known, the possibility of salvation.
The Death Of Robin Hood trailer
The cast
Jackman leads a stacked cast that includes Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett, and Noah Jupe, suggesting a story that leans heavily on performance rather than spectacle, early glimpses from the trailer point to a stripped back, grim medieval world, more bruised realism than swashbuckling fantasy.
It’s also a notable pivot for Jackman, who has spent much of the past decade balancing blockbuster spectacle with character driven roles. The Death of Robin Hood looks firmly planted in the latter camp, positioning him as an ageing outlaw forced to reckon with legacy rather than legend.
While plot details remain tightly held, the tone is clear, this is not a Robin Hood story about stealing from the rich, it’s about consequence, memory, and whether a lifetime of violence can ever be undone.
The Death of Robin Hood is set to hit cinemas this year with releases confirmed for Australia and New Zealand, no release date as yet, watch this space.
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