Hugh Jackman’s new Logan replacement officially releases in 2 weeks

Hugh Jackman is now officially Hollywood’s go-to guy for pulling off aging heroes.

In 2017, he returned to the role of Logan/Wolverine in ​James Mangold’s neo-Western thriller Logan. Featuring a much older X-Man with fading powers, Logan was a touching portrait of a hero well past his prime, and Jackman’s performance as the tired, disillusioned mutant was his best-ever performance as the Marvel character. Now, he’s set to take on an even more legendary hero, one that predates Wolverine’s 1970s comic book origins by about 600 years.

Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski (Pig, A Quiet Place: Day One), The Death of Robin Hood will be arriving in theaters on June 19, 2026. A24’s official description of the film reads: “Grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, Robin Hood finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman, he is offered a chance at salvation.”

And much like Logan was more brutal — in both action and emotion — than Jackman’s previous outings as Logan, Sarnoski’s take on Robin Hood won’t be the gallant, lighthearted outlaw we’ve typically seen on the big screen.

“You think of medieval battles as knights in shining armor, riding in on horses, but most of the time it was just peasants beating each other to death with shovels in the mud,” Sarnoski told The Hollywood Reporter in a recent interview. With that in mind, he said The Death of Robin Hood portrays “A couple of old men, desperately trying to kill each other in the mud — that was the core idea.”

Sarnoski also shared that inspiration for the film’s story grew out of disparate takes on the character. As a child, Sarnoski loved Disney’s carefree 1973 version of Robin Hood where he’s depicted as an anthropomorphic fox. However, he said his feelings about the character grew more complex following the death of his father when he was still quite young, as well as his discovery of the 17th century ballad Robin Hood’s Death, which features Robin Hood bleeding to death via bloodletting.

Sarnoski said, “I remember as a kid going through the loss of a male role model, trying to come to terms with, ‘Wait a minute, there’s this immortal folklore character that is the animated Robin Hood, and then at the same time, there’s this story of him dying very much in a quiet, human way. That was very confusing to me as a kid, and it was something that I was fascinated by and wanted to explore more deeply.”

Now he’s getting to explore that complexity with The Death of Robin Hood, and with the more than capable acting chops of Hugh Jackman. While some may wonder why Jackman is doing another Logan-like story with a different hero, Sarnoski explained that Jackman’s history as the berserker-raging X-Man was part of the reason why he cast him.

“Hugh has done Wolverine, he’s done action — I knew he could do the aggressive, violent side of this,” Sarnoski said in the same interview. “But he’s such a warm, kind person that no matter what, we can have him do all the horrible things we want in the movie — and those moments when you see kindness in him feel really real.”

Notable actors who’ve played Robin Hood