Is Bill Skarsgård just staying in his villain era? The star of Nosferatu and The Crow (pictured above) is among the latest additions to The Death of Robin Hood, a film about the famed outlaw’s later years. Deadline doesn’t mention who Skarsgård is playing, but it’s sort of hard not to imagine him in an antagonistic role, up against Hugh Jackman’s Robin.
The film has also cast Murray Bartlett (The Last of Us, The White Lotus) and Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place), and likewise, news reports don’t specify who the actors are playing. In fact, they don’t specify much at all, though the film begins production shortly. Deadline summarizes it thusly: “The story follows a battle-worn loner, grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, who finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of a mysterious woman, who offers him a chance at salvation.”
Jodie Comer (31) co-stars with Jackman (56); presumably she will be playing this mysterious woman.
The Death of Robin Hood comes from writer-director Michael Sarnoski (Pig, A Quiet Place: Day One) and will be distributed by A24. If we’re very lucky and/or cursed, it may arrive at the same time as another Robin Hood: MGM’s series, which also stars an Australian in the title role. An Armageddon/Deep Impact face-off in Sherwood Forest! It probably won’t happen, but the idea makes me laugh.
Note: The Crow counts as villain-era Skarsgård because making that movie at all was maybe a little evil.
