Epilogue

The Uprising (briefly marketed in the U.S. as The Uprising: The Rise of Robin Hood) is a 2026 action period drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Greengrass. It stars Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman and Katherine Waterston. It dramatises the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England, with Bell and Jarvis portraying the revolt's main leaders, John Ball and Wat Tyler, respectively. Although the film never uses the name of the English folkloric outlaw Robin Hood, its brief epilogue, set one year after the majority of the story, depicts Garfield's character, Ploughman, as the Robin Hood-like leader of a band of green-clothed, forest-dwelling, bow-wielding outlaws. Shortly before the film's U.S. release date, its U.S. distributor Focus Features abruptly began to market it as a Robin Hood origin story without the approval of the U.K. distributor Entertainment Film Distributors; this led to backlash and confusion about the film's subject. The film was released theatrically in the United States on September 10, 2026 and is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on October 9. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its performances, action sequences, and contemporary social relevance, but criticized its bleak tone and aesthetics, Greengrass' signature handheld shaky camera style, and the Robin Hood-inspired epilogue.