Ben Mendelsohn Signs Up to Play Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Origins

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Not content with leading the empire in a galaxy far, far away, cape enthusiast Ben Mendelsohn will take his own brand of villainy into the past as he signs up to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Origins.  

Taron Egerton will don the tights of Robin in the new movie, leading a cast that so far includes Jamie Foxx as Little John, Eve Hewson as Maid Marian and Jamie Dornan as Will Scarlett. 

Plonking himself down in the director’s chair will be Otto Bathurst who’ll be working from a script by Joby Harold which promises to bring us a dark and gritty take on the oft-adapted legend, though it'll include familiar elements such as the main man as a Crusades veteran who takes up arms against corrupt English lords. And the Sheriff is the man he must defeat. 

"There’s no singing and riding through the glen in this; it’s a real war movie," Egerton told Collider recently. "Quite an anti-establishment war movie, I would say... It’s dark. And Robin’s not perfect in it, either, which is what I like about it. He’s not a classic hero, he makes mistakes."

Robin Hood: Origins will be on our screens in 2018. 

Robin Hood
Robin of Loxley (Taron Egerton) a war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander (Jamie Foxx) mount an audacious rev...
Release Dates
19 Feb 2019-DVD
21 Nov 2018-Cinema
19 Feb 2019-Blu-ray
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