The film itself is quite a departure from the Fairbanks
swashbucklers he'd become
known for, such as Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro, and The Thief of Bagdad.
Director Scott Derrickson, best
known for the derivative yet chilling Sinister, works in a robust old - school style that owes more to American
swashbuckler films, Asian action cinema, and the Indiana Jones series than to the frenetic, cut - and - paste aesthetic of contemporary blockbusters such as Captain America: Civil War.