The Uprising now has a date on the marketing calendar: its trailer will be released on July 16, 2026. Andrew Garfield leads the film as a rebel in medieval England, with Paul Greengrass directing a story that puts royal authority directly in the crosshairs.
The poster’s new rollout turns the campaign into a timed event, not a vague tease. Focus Features will then release The Uprising in theaters on September 11, 2026, giving the film a short runway between first footage and opening day.
Andrew Garfield in medieval England
The promotional image shows Garfield as a rebel in medieval England, and the official synopsis pushes that image even harder: “Andrew Garfield stars as the legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II.” That is the commercial hook here — a recognizable lead actor placed inside a fight for power, survival, and legitimacy.
“As war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the King's might in a fight for justice and survival.” That line lays out the film’s core contradiction: a rebellion framed both as a survival story and as a direct challenge to royal authority. Greengrass is not selling a neutral historical pageant; he is selling conflict with a political center of gravity.
Paul Greengrass and the rollout
Greengrass directs The Uprising, which is positioned as both a historical thriller and a war movie. The cast also includes Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman, and Katherine Waterston, giving the film a wide ensemble around Garfield’s lead role.
That spread matters because the campaign is not built on a single-star vehicle alone. A poster that freezes Garfield in rebellion, then assigns the trailer a specific day, tells audiences and exhibitors exactly when the marketing push begins to tighten around the September 11, 2026 theatrical date.
September 11 target
September 11, 2026 is the film’s theater date, and the July 16 trailer gives the studio a clear bridge from first footage to release. For viewers, the next real checkpoint is the trailer itself; that is when the film will have to show whether its rebellion story plays as a historical action piece, a political drama, or both.
For now, the answer is simple: The Uprising is no longer just a title and a poster. It has a clock on it, and the trailer lands first.
