Andrew Garfield ‘Robin Hood’ rumours erupted online after a promotional clip for The Uprising, his film about England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, carried a tagline the UK distributor never approved.
Garfield’s character was credited as Ploughman, and the official materials described him as a legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Robin Hood did not feature anywhere in that description, which was where the trouble started.
The clip landed on the film’s social media feeds carrying a tagline that promised audiences would witness the rise of Robin Hood. Fans did the maths quickly, and within hours timelines filled with people asking whether Garfield had quietly signed on to play the outlaw of Sherwood Forest.
The Andrew Garfield ‘Robin Hood’ tagline nobody approved
The film’s UK distributor said the Robin Hood themed marketing that appeared online was not issued or approved by it, which suggested the clip had gone out without full studio sign-off.
That was an unusual admission, and it left the campaign contradicting the film it was supposed to be selling.
The Robin Hood legend and the 1381 revolt occupied the same corner of English folklore, both built on ordinary people squaring up to a crown that squeezed them for money.
A story about the Peasants’ Revolt was always going to sit near Sherwood in the public imagination, which made the tagline land as confirmation rather than flourish.
Why the ‘Robin Hood’ timing made things worse
Hugh Jackman’s A24 film The Death of Robin Hood flopped at the box office in June 2026, and audiences had barely finished processing that before another project started circling the same legend.
Two outlaw movies in one year felt like a glut, especially when one of them denied being an outlaw movie at all.
This was not the first odd turn in Garfield’s press cycle in 2026 either, since Swisher Post previously covered the secret band he had been quietly involved with.
He spent the year being found out doing things nobody expected of him, and the Robin Hood muddle slotted neatly into that run.
What Andrew Garfield’s rebellion film actually is
The Uprising was built as a historical war film set around the 1381 revolt, with Garfield leading a rebellion against Richard II rather than robbing carriages in a forest.
The distinction mattered, because the marketing sold a myth while the production made a period drama about tax revolt and repression.
The pressure now sits with the studio to spell out what the film actually is before release, and to decide whether the Robin Hood framing gets dropped or quietly leaned into.
Whether audiences turn up for a rebellion picture wearing borrowed folklore will settle the rest.
