Sarnoski Premieres 30-Day Robin Hood Reimagining With Hugh Jackman in Los Angeles
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Updated · Los Angeles Times · Jun 18
Sarnoski Premieres 30-Day Robin Hood Reimagining With Hugh Jackman in Los Angeles
3 articles · Updated · Los Angeles Times · Jun 18
Summary
Michael Sarnoski premiered “The Death of Robin Hood” in Los Angeles, unveiling a darker retelling with Hugh Jackman as an aging, haunted Robin and Jodie Comer as the woman who nurses him after battle.
30 years of attachment to the legend drove Sarnoski to write the script, aiming to humanize Robin Hood through a grim character study shaped more by mortality and regret than heroic myth.
Shot on 35mm over 30 days in Northern Ireland, the film blends the intimacy of Sarnoski’s 2021 debut “Pig” with the larger-scale action experience he gained on “A Quiet Place: Day One.”
Jackman said the script subverted his expectation of a redemptive arc, instead building toward an eight-minute final scene that Sarnoski called one of the film’s most emotionally vulnerable moments.
At 38, Sarnoski is using the premiere to cement a fast rise from first-time feature director on “Pig” to studio filmmaker, with a “Death Stranding” adaptation next.