'Robin Hood: Origins' Taking a 'John Wick' Approach to Action Sequences
Taron Egerton is set to star as Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Origins, and things are looking more adventurous with the latest iteration of the famous character. Director Otto Bathurst also brings Ben Mendelsohn onboard as the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Jamie Foxx will play Little John. Eve Hewson and Jamie Dornan round out the cast.
Producer Basil Iwanyk, who also has a credit on John Wick; Chapter 2, has told Collider that the John Wick films have been an inspiration behind some of the stunts we can expect to see in the action of Robin Hood: Origins. "The images of Robin Hood, the imagery we have, the production design, the stunt work that we’re doing—a lot of it was inspired by the John Wick stunt work.
"The stuff we’re doing with the bow and arrow, it’s the same thing that Keanu does with the gun. The costumes, it just feels different than any other Robin Hood we had." Iwanyk continues to praise the cast they've made up, expecting that this new film offers something original to the table.
"Exempting the killer cast, I feel that it captures the adventure and the fun and the spirit of Robin Hood, but because it’s the origin story—it’s a kid going off to war thinking he’s going on a great Crusade, and realizing it’s all bullshit and coming back with some PTSD and realizing he’s been lied to, and coming back to kind of a fractured society that doesn’t really accept him and realizing, ‘Okay the super rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.’
"You could describe that now. What Joby Harold, our writer, was able to do is make it feel very allegorical and very contemporary, and feel youthful but not youthful in a YA way, youthful in a kind of, the anger, the energy, what people when they were 25 feel, without it being pandering like ‘Look, we’re the young version of the movie!’"
Source: Slashfilm
