The Uprising (2026)

Dr.Retarded · 2026-10-03T19:54:25-0400

jayrebb said:
It works if you don't connect it to Robin Hood at all and view it as the start of highwaymen (I'm not familiar enough with the exact history of highwaymen, but I would guess they existed prior to 1300. Maybe organization and prevalence increased after this event) . Taking travel away from the rich. No more luxury gallivanting and forced to sit in their tower.

I think that's probably a good assessment.

I viewed it more as the fact that they were so dedicated to the king and being the true Commons, that after they were betrayed, it was no longer going to be a civil rebellion, or at least as civil as they were trying to make it originally before they got to London, and the city folk got crazy.

Hence the reason they planed the ambush, and one of the reasons they go after the mayor.

jayrebb · 2026-10-03T20:03:40-0400

Cad said:
I would imagine kidnapping/ransoming rich people was a business plan back then, as well as just taking their shit if you could. I bet travel back then was a little more exciting than a road trip on the interstate today.

I know knight ransom was popular around that time because the armor was basically advertising they knew people who would pay for their safe return. 1200-1300 was the peak of knight's power, most of them being landowners. By late 1300 there was no such thing as a knight that didn't own land.

Homsar · 2026-10-03T21:22:06-0400

It was originally called the Rise of Robin Hood

Dr.Retarded · 2026-10-03T21:33:14-0400

Homsar said:
It was originally called the Rise of Robin Hood

No kidding? I wouldn't have guessed that from the movie in general other than I guess the last scene. I wonder if they changed it because The Death of Robin Hood with Hugh Jackman was coming out around the same time.

Bald Brah · 2026-10-04T03:24:49-0400

Dr.Retarded said:
No kidding? I wouldn't have guessed that from the movie in general other than I guess the last scene. I wonder if they changed it because The Death of Robin Hood with Hugh Jackman was coming out around the same time.

I think the director wanted an accurate historical piece but the studio made him link it to the Robin Hood myth. In reality all the merry men were hunted down and drawn and quartered and had their heads displayed on London Bridge.

Zweischneid · 2026-10-04T09:40:00-0400

Really, thought it was the other way around. Director made and never wanted to make more than a movie about the 14th Century Peasant's revolt and the Robin Hood-marketing was briefly attached by the US distributor (against the will of both the Director and the UK publisher and long after filming was complete) because it was tracking poorly?

Homsar · 2026-10-04T09:49:37-0400

It was called The Hood originally, then The Rage (both being pre production), then The Uprising, Then The rise of Robin hood, then back to The Uprising

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