Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx as Robin Hood and Little John, eh?
That’s what’s going down in Otto Bathurst’s upcoming ROBIN HOOD: ORIGINS (shit title), which also features THE KNICK actress (and Bono’s daughter) Eve Hewson as Maid Marion.
I don’t give a hot fuck about the race thing (wasn’t Morgan Freeman essentially Little John in PRINCE OF THIEVES?), but I am used to Little John and Robin being closer in age than the 26-year-old Egerton and late-40s Foxx. They’re doing a little revisionism with their relationship in this one, with Robin and John starting out as antagonistic war vets before they and their merry men inevitably become a cohesive unit.
I (and, I’m thinking, audiences) may think that another ROBIN HOOD movie is a bit redundant and unnecessary at this point in time, but there’s no doubt that this core trio is nothing to scoff at. Foxx had a hard time plugging himself (pun intended) into the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN franchise, but he may have better luck seeing as they’re incorporating his character from the getgo.
Either way, it should be fun to watch Egerton and Foxx rob from the rich and give to the poor while putting arrows and swords in a few villains along the way, no?
