Andrew Garfield has enjoyed a quietly successful run on the big screen over the past few years, from his acclaimed romance We Live in Time with Florence Pugh to his team-up with Luca Guadagnino for After the Hunt, and his fantastical book adaptation The Magic Faraway Tree, which hits U.S. theaters next month. In September, however, he’s about to return to the realm of the historical epic. His last foray into the grand, sweeping genre, Mel Gibson‘s World War II Oscar winner Hacksaw Ridge, earned him his first nomination for a golden statuette back in 2017. This time around, he’s joining forces with another big name in Paul Greengrass to lead a revolution that may rival that of Gibson’s classic war drama, Braveheart.
On September 11, Garfield will take on the role of 14th-century farmer-turned-legendary leader of men, Wat Tyler, in The Uprising. Written and directed by Greengrass, who has a penchant for bringing incredible true stories to life with an air of grandiosity as seen in Captain Phillips and his most recent film, The Lost Bus, the film unfolds during the English Peasants’ Revolt in 1381 as Tyler steps up to guide the people against the tyrannical King Richard II. He pulls together an army of commoners to challenge the might of the crown’s forces as war rages across England. What follows is a battle for “justice and survival” that is one of history’s great, relatively untold stories that very nearly changed the course of the country forever.
With less than two months until release, Focus Features has debuted the first trailer for The Uprising, teasing how Garfield’s humble farmer becomes a great revolutionary when push comes to shove. The Peasants’ Revolt was the result of years of socio-economic hardships faced by the lower-class citizens of England, most notably the crushing taxes imposed amid the Hundred Years’ War. In the footage, those frustrations boil over into an explosive result of massive proportions across the country, thanks in part to Tyler’s leadership. Their might would be so great that even the seemingly impenetrable Tower of London could not hold them back, marking the only time the fortress was breached. Opposite Garfield is no shortage of star power, including Jamie Bell, who’s coming off Richard Gadd‘s acclaimed HBO series Half Man, alongside Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman, Katherine Waterston, and Sky Yang.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
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🔧John McClane
🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
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Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
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John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
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Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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‘The Uprising’ Was a Long Time Coming From Greengrass
Behind the camera, Greengrass is joined by an intriguing production team that includes none other than Jason Blum, the head of horror giant Blumhouse, as well as Gregory Goodman, Joanna Kaye, Joe Neurauter, and Lars Sylvest. Although Blum mostly operates in the realm of the macabre, The Uprising will be the second straight collaboration between him and the United 93 helmer, as he also helped produce The Lost Bus. Bringing the Peasants’ Revolt to theaters took longer than expected, though. Greengrass originally planned his historical epic back in 2022 under the title The Hood, with Benedict Cumberbatch starring. However, years would go by without any updates until 2025, when the name changed to The Rage and The Lost Bus star Matthew McConaughey was swapped in to lead. It took a pair of name and cast changes, but The Uprising is now ready to revolt at last.
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The Uprising storms into theaters on September 11. Check out the trailer in the player above.
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Release Date
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September 11, 2026
Director
Paul Greengrass
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Writers
Paul Greengrass
Producers
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Gregory Goodman, Jason Blum, Joanna Kaye, Lars Sylvest, Paul Greengrass, Joe Neurauter
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