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Hugh Jackman has transformed into a rugged Robin Hood in the trailer for his latest film.
The Australian actor, 57, is best known for playing Wolverine in the X-Men film franchise, as well as in Deadpool & Wolverine.
Other notable roles have also come in Van Helsing, Les Misérables and The Greatest Showman.
However, Hugh has left many doing a double take after getting a glimpse of the new movie The Death of Robin Hood.
In the upcoming A24 release – which also stars Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer, IT: Welcome to Derry’s Bill Skarsgård, The White Lotus star Murray Bartlett, and The Night Manager’s Noah Jupe – he plays the titular character, undertaking a transformation that left him unrecognisable.
The trailer shows most of Hugh’s face hidden beneath a massive grey beard and long silver locks – which now has many of his fans counting down to the release.
‘Book me for this one! Jackman looks amazing,’ user EstablishedGeek commented on YouTube.
‘This looks intense, I can’t wait to see how they reinterpret such a classic story!’ Liuly-Pq8 shared.
‘You already know Hugh Jackman is gonna kill it,’ VisualsOfJosh added.
Meanwhile JaxsonCovert, referencing Hugh’s role in The Greatest Showman declared on X: ‘P.T Barnum’s been looking different these days.’
‘Man!!! It looks like Jackman has channelled his inner Ian Mckellan as Gandalf in this,’ nashed42 declared.
The trailer also begins with Robin Hood sitting by a fire asking a young woman if she would ‘like to know a secret’, before sharing that the stories of the hero are ‘all lies’.
‘He was not a hero. He were a murderous brigand,’ with scenes then showing men brutally murdering a man sitting outside his home by beating him in the head.
A clip then shows Robin Hood lying in a bed, with Jodie’s character telling him how he’d ‘begged to die’. A flashback then sees him speaking to a young girl and making her a bow but then being told in the present day that she then encountered ‘terrible things’.
Robin Hood is then seen saying: ‘I’ve killed so many that I’ve lost count…it is a curse.’
Viewers are then told: ‘The legend was a lie.’
The trailer then ends with the outlaw hugging the young girl and promising he will ‘keep her safe’.
According to the synopsis for the film, the dark reimagining of the legend of Robin Hood will follow the outlaw as he is ‘grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder’.
Unlike the heroic portrayal usually seen on screen, this time the folklore figure is a ‘battle-worn loner who finds himself gravely injured and in the hands of a mysterious woman, who offers him a chance at salvation’.
The film was written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, best known for previously helming Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly recently, Hugh spoke about this unique portrayal of Robin Hood, which differs from many modern interpretations.
‘What I love so much about Mike’s vision of Robin Hood is that the script delivered power, and it examines how power can be used for good or bad,’ he said.
‘Robin Hood is a real man in our story. With all the scars, the pain, the regret and, yes, the love.’
He added: ‘Mike’s story has weight to it. For me, it’s beautiful and human.’
The director was also recently asked about Hugh’s appearance in the film. While he didn’t give details as to how much of the actor’s grey hair and beard came from wigs or Hugh himself, he did tease that viewers would be ‘seeing some of his musclebound physique’.
Speaking about the plot, he also told EW that Robin Hood is ‘this murderous outlaw who did a lot of terrible things and was kind of monstrous’.
‘But he’s lived long enough to see this folklore get created about him. He’s figuring out how he feels about that, about being portrayed as a hero when he knows what he really was,’ he said.
He also explained: ‘You can be as familiar with earlier versions as you want…you’ll be carried along to understand what this version is, because the performances are so specific and so different from what you’ve seen before’.
Going on to detail the fight scenes viewers can expect, the director said his film ‘almost gets towards feeling like a war movie’, explaining that fighting in that era was brutal. ‘It wasn’t people dancing around and fencing. It was people in the mud trying to crack each other’s heads open with a shovel.’
While Bill plays a ‘version of little John’, it is not yet clear who Jodie’s character is. However, Michael confirmed she was not Maid Marian and instead was someone who introduces Robin Hood ‘to another side of life’.
In March last year Hugh shared a series of behind-the-scenes shots from the set of The Death of Robin Hood – which was filmed in Ireland.
‘There is a depth, a camaraderie and a spirit to the entire cast and crew of The Death of Robin Hood. Thank you for this wonderful experience. It is an honour and a privilege. Thank you Ireland!!! Your beauty knows no bounds,’ he wrote.
The Death of Robin Hood will be released later this year.
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