This ain’t your grandpa’s “Robin Hood.” Farewell to Errol Flynn‘s incarnation or even Kevin Costner‘s hunky, blockbuster take. Next year’s reboot (or whatever) of the character is going to get some dirt under the fingernails and some blood on the knuckles. Yep, it’s going to be gritty.

“My Robin Hood, as with Kevin Costner‘s, he’s a soldier. We find him out in Syria.

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If you’ve been a struggling actor, director, writer or creative in Hollywood it’s easy to give up. It’s easy to say, “Well, I tried for a couple of years, but it’s time to try something else even though I really don’t want to.” Take a deep breathe because as he discussed in the latest episode of the 4 Quadrant podcast, Ben Mendelsohn‘s career should be a major inspiration for you.

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The 48-year-old Aussie actor began coming to the U.S.

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Half of succeeding in Hollywood seems to be telling executives what they want to hear. If you want to keep your job on the studio lot, you’d be best served by digging up some IP they own and pitching a reboot. Even better, if you toss in the words “dark” and “gritty,” you might even get your own reserved parking space. And while the source material for “Robin Hood” is in the public domain, whoever dreamed up turning it into a serious reimagining probably was able to pay for some steak dinners.

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It seems as if Hollywood learned nothing from last year’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice” or really any other reboot that furrowed its brow in seriousness: going gritty isn’t always what audiences want. That being said, for all the iterations of Robin Hood we’ve had on the big screen from the heroic (“Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves“) to the satirical (“Robin Hood: Men In Tights“) to the animated (“Robin Hood“), I suppose we’ve never really seen him suffer with psychological wear and tear (though Ridley Scott took things in a more serious direction with his 2010 movie).

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We may have specific tastes around here at The Playlist (though our list of The 25 Best Films Of The Year reveals we like everything from foreign arthouse flicks to bloody genre entries), but it doesn’t take us much to watch something we otherwise wouldn’t be so invested in. For example, put Ben Mendelsohn in a film, and you can guarantee we’ll buy a ticket, even if it’s for “Robin Hood: Origins.”

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Yeah, we really don’t need a blockbuster-sized, presumably franchise-positioned movie about the hero who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, but Ben Mendelsohn as the Sheriff of Nottingham?

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Lionsgate is the latest studio to attempt to launch a successful Robin Hood franchise. Their upcoming film, “Robin Hood: Origins,” is set to begin production soon, with “Peaky Blinders” director Otto Bathurst at the helm. Variety is now reporting that Jamie Dornan is in talks to play Will Scarlet in the upcoming reboot.

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Jamie Dornan is perhaps best known as portraying Christian Grey in the “Fifty Shades of Grey” series.

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Nicholas Hoult, Jack Huston, Taron Egerton, And More In The Mix For 'Robin Hood: Origins'

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