US marketing campaign briefly adds Britain’s most famous outlaw to title before dropping it, while UK distributor insists film is a ‘historical epic about Peasants’ Revolt’

Just two weeks before its release, Focus Features is now marketing Paul Greengrass' film — set during the 1381 English Peasants' Revolt — as 'The Uprising: The Rise of Robin Hood.'

Paul Greengrass drama The Uprising was supposed to be a historical epic about the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 – but a strange new campaign has inserted a surprising figure