{"id":88758,"date":"2026-09-02T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88758"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:36:39","slug":"andrew-garfield-historical-drama-the-uprising-gets-a-fortnite-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88758","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield Historical Drama The Uprising Gets a Fortnite Crossover"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nothing screams Fortnite<\/a> like the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381<\/a>, am I right?<\/p>\n

Focus Features announced Wednesday that the new movie The Uprising<\/a>, starring Andrew Garfield, is now available to play as a custom experience on Fortnite ahead of the Paul Greengrass-directed film\u2019s theatrical release on September 10.<\/p>\n

Even for Fortnite \u2013 which has a long history of pop cultural collaborations including Star Wars<\/a>, Marvel<\/a>, DC<\/a>, LEGO<\/a>, The Witcher<\/a>, Godzilla and Kong<\/a>, Stranger Things<\/a>, John Wick<\/a>, and Back to the Future<\/a> \u2013 The Uprising is a curious film to see on this platform.<\/p>\n

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The period drama \u2013 which may or may not (still) be a Robin Hood origin movie<\/a> \u2013 chronicles the Peasants\u2019 Revolt of 1381, which was led by historical figures Wat Tyler (played by Shogun\u2019s Cosmo Jarvis) and John Ball (played by Jamie Bell). Andrew Garfield\u2019s lead character, Ploughman, is meant to represent the Everyman peasant pushed by misfortune into taking up arms against the crown.<\/p>\n

According to the official announcement, \u201cthe free Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) experience, developed by Sawhorse Productions and published by Genesis Studios, immerses players in the heart of the legendary uprising, bringing the film’s world to life through a large-scale multiplayer battle inspired by the events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing screams Fortnite like the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, am I right? Focus Features announced Wednesday that the new movie The Uprising, starring Andrew Garfield, is now available to play as a custom experience on Fortnite ahead of the Paul Greengrass-directed film\u2019s theatrical release on September 10. Even for Fortnite \u2013 which has a long…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":88760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88762,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88758\/revisions\/88762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}