This one sounds to me like more of a TV drama than something that needs to be seen on the big screen as we now have a first look at The Last of Robin Hood starring Kevin Kline as Errol Flynn, examining his relationship with underage starlet Beverly Aadland played by Dakota Fanning.
Directed by Quinceañera duo Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the film co-stars Susan Sarandon and follows Flynn in his latter years as he and Aadland enjoy an affair that spans the globe and was enabled by the girl’s fame-obsessed mother, Florence (Sarandon). It all came crashing to an end in October 1959 when events forced the relationship into the open, creating an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother. The Last of Robin Hood is a story about the desire for fame and the price it exacts.
Clocking in at a mere 88 minutes this may be one I can sneak into during some downtime while I’m in Toronto, but I have to be honest, I’m not going to go out of my way to seek it out. What do you think?
