Andrew Garfield is not just a rebellious peasant in his upcoming action period drama. He’s Robin Hood.
The reveal, confirmed by Focus Features this week on social media, came as a surprise to fans, who assumed The Uprising — releasing in U.S. theaters Sept. 10 — was about the 1381 English Peasants’ Revolt against King Richard II and its leader, Wat Tyler.
But Paul Greengrass’ movie has received a new subtitle: The Rise of Robin Hood, unveiled on X. “Set against the true events of the Uprising that helped inspire the legend of Robin Hood,” reads a new plot synopsis, “[Garfield’s character] forms an army of the people to face the King’s might in a fight for justice.” Before this, the project claimed to tell the story of “a birth of a legend.”
Garfield is credited as just “Ploughman” in the film on IMDB, where he is listed alongside co-stars Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Jonny Lee Miller, Thomasin McKenzie and Cosmo Jarvis, who is playing the real-life Wat Tyler. The film will likely depict the Ploughman’s rise from obscurity to notorious outlaw, though most retellings of his story have been set centuries before the Peasants’ Revolt.
To the rich, he was an outlaw. To the people, he was a hero. Witness the rise of Robin Hood in THE UPRISING, only in theaters September 11.— The Uprising (@theuprisingmov) August 20, 2026
