Two New THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD Featurettes Teases a Brutal and Haunting Reinvention of the Legendary Outlaw
A couple of new featurettes have been released for The Death of Robin Hood, and they offer much better look at the dark and emotionally heavy story that director Michael Sarnoski is bringing to the screen.
Along with some great new footage, the videos includes interviews with Hugh Jackman and Sarnoski as they talk about reimagining the Robin Hood myth in a way that feels raw, violent, and deeply human.
This isn’t the swashbuckling folk hero audiences are used to seeing. The film looks like it’s stripping the legend down to the bone and asking a pretty interesting question: what if Robin Hood was actually “a bloodthirsty cutthroat”?
Jackman plays an older Robin Hood who looks completely worn down by the life he’s lived. Every frame in the featurette leans into that exhaustion.
The muddy battlefields, fog-covered landscapes, and rugged Scottish Highlands all create a world that feels cold and unforgiving. There’s weight hanging over this story, like Robin is being forced to stare directly at every terrible thing he’s done.
The film’s tagline, “The legend was a lie,” changes the lens through which we view the character. This isn’t a tale about heroic adventures in Sherwood Forest or clever thieves humiliating noblemen. It’s about the aftermath. It’s about a man carrying years of violence and regret while trying to figure out if redemption is still possible.
According to the official synopsis: “Grappling with his past after a life of crime & murder, Robin Hood (Hugh Jackman) finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman, he is offered a chance at salvation.”
That mysterious woman is played by Jodie Comer, and she joins an impressive cast that also includes Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett, and Noah Jupe.
Sarnoski’s fingerprints are all over this project. Fans of Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One will probably recognize the same grounded storytelling style here. The movie appears to balance quiet character-driven moments with sudden flashes of ugly brutality, and it feels much more like an intimate character study than a traditional medieval action movie.
A24 keeps finding interesting ways to reshape familiar genres, and The Death of Robin Hood looks like another movie willing to take a big swing creatively. If the final film delivers on the atmosphere and emotion teased in this featurette, this could end up being one of the more fascinating takes on Robin Hood we’ve seen.
The Death of Robin Hood hits theaters on June 19th, 2026.