Why Robin Hood Just Flopped So Hard

5. Taron Egerton: Not Quite There Yet

Taron Egerton it great. He's great in Eddie The Eagle and he's great in the Kingsman movies and he'll probably be great in a lot of movies. He's also incredibly charming and self-effacing and 2019 will see his career given an almighty boost into the stratosphere courtesy of a certain Rocket Man.

However, he's not quite there yet as a leading man in terms of box office appeal (much like Charlie Hunnam wasn't really the man to hitch the King Arthur wagon to). Yes, he's been in some reasonable successes, but he's done so with bigger names next to him. In Robin Hood, he's the headliner (even with Jamie Foxx, Jamie Dornan and Ben Mendelson on the cast), and he's not yet enjoying the profile to really warrant that.

Had this film been released in the wake of Elton John biopic Rocket Man in 2019, it would be different. That film is likely to do for Egerton what Bohemian Rhapsody is surely going to do for Rami Malek and is far more of an actual breakout movie than Robin Hood could ever be. There's more performance to it and more dramatic weight, while playing Robin Hood as a cocky, smirking kid is pretty much the opposite. It looks like a miscue from Lionsgate - albeit one that was well-intentioned.

It won't have set his career back, because Rocket Man is coming, but it could have had the potential to tar him the same way the 50 Shades movies have co-star Dornan.