Hugh Jackman has much darker plans than just stealing from the rich in the trailer for A24‘s forthcoming feature The Death of Robin Hood.
Writer-director Michael Sarnoski‘s movie reimagines the Robin Hood legend and is set to hit theaters later this year. The cast includes Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett, Noah Jupe and Elijah Ungvary.
The Death of Robin Hood depicts the titular character (Jackman) as having a past marred by crime and murder. Robin Hood gets a chance for redemption when a mysterious woman (Comer) helps him survive an injury from a dangerous battle.
“I owe you an apology,” Comer tells Jackman in the trailer. “You begged for me to let you die.”
Later in the footage, Jackman confesses, “I’ve killed so many, I could not give you a count. It’s a curse.”
Sarnoski, who is known for helming Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One, wrote and directed the project. Jackman, Alexander Black, Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett serve as producers.
Jackman can currently be seen opposite Kate Hudson in the Focus Features film Song Sung Blue. He also stars in Amazon MGM Studios’ The Sheep Detectives, hitting theaters in May.
“He was this murderous outlaw who did a lot of terrible things and was kind of monstrous,” Sarnoski recently told Entertainment Weekly about his take on Robin Hood. “But he’s lived long enough to see this folklore get created about him. He’s figuring out how he feels about that, about being portrayed as a hero when he knows what he really was.”