Couple that with the fact that several major modern heroes (such as Arrow’s Oliver Queen and The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen) already take ample inspiration from Robin Hood to inform their personalities and tactics, and it becomes reasonably clear that this movie needs to do something new and unique to shake things up.
Focusing on this element of Robin Hood’s story could also really help the new movie stand apart from other entries in the Robin Hood canon.
We have seen countless iterations of the folk hero debut on the silver screen over the years, so finding a new way to approach the tried and true formula is obviously a significant benefit for Robin Hood’s narrative.