Andrew Garfield's 'The Uprising' Gets a Robin Hood Subtitle Two Weeks Before Release
Focus Features has renamed Andrew Garfield's upcoming period drama "The Uprising" to "The Uprising: The Rise of Robin Hood," unveiled on X on 26 August 2026 — roughly two weeks before the film reaches US cinemas on 10 September (The Hollywood Reporter; Dark Horizons).
The subtitle reveal so close to release left social media users confused, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A title change at this stage is unusual: marketing materials, theatre listings and trailers have typically been locked for weeks by the time a film is fourteen days out.
Paul Greengrass directed the film, with Jason Blum producing (The Hollywood Reporter). Greengrass, known for his kinetic, handheld approach in films like the Bourne sequels and Captain Phillips, here turns to 14th-century England. The story is set against the real events of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt, an uprising against King Richard II led by a Kentish man named Wat Tyler. IMDb describes the project as based on the true story of the uprising that inspired the legend of Robin Hood (IMDb).
Garfield plays a character credited on IMDb as "Ploughman." An Esquire profile fleshes him out as a fictional everyman farmer whose wife and children have died in the Black Death, and who goes on to form an army of ordinary people to face the King's might in a fight for justice (The Hollywood Reporter). Focus Features' own page describes Garfield's character as "the leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II" (Focus Features).
The ensemble cast includes Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Jonny Lee Miller, Thomasin McKenzie and Cosmo Jarvis, who plays the historical Wat Tyler (The Hollywood Reporter).
This is the second Robin Hood film to arrive in 2026. Earlier in the year, Hugh Jackman and A24 released "The Death of Robin Hood," which failed to break even (The Hollywood Reporter). Two Hood-adjacent films in a single calendar year is rare for a legend that Hollywood has returned to periodically since Douglas Fairbanks swung through the leaves in 1922.
The title change raises a straightforward marketing question. "The Uprising" sells a historical-revolt drama; "The Rise of Robin Hood" sells a folk hero. Whether the subtitle draws in audiences who would have skipped a 14th-century peasant rebellion is something the opening weekend on 10 September will begin to answer.
