Andrew Garfield isn't just hoping billionaires watch The Uprising. He's hoping it wrecks their sleep.

At a recent Q&A alongside director Paul Greengrass, the two-time Oscar nominee said the plan for his new film goes well past ticket sales. "I hope it's galvanizing," Garfield said, according to both Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter, which carried near-identical accounts of the same event. "I hope there's some awakening that people feel, that they feel that their own, that we all feel like our own struggles are being reflected in the struggles of these characters from a distant time and place, and that it could be directive."

Then the line that's doing the rounds online. "And I hope that if any billionaires watch it, they're scared shitless."

The Uprising, written and directed by Greengrass, retells the events behind the legend of Robin Hood, with Garfield playing a farmer called Ploughman who raises an army against King Richard II, played by Woody Norman, over a brutal tax imposed in the wake of a plague. It opens in the US on September 10.

When the moderator quoted a line from the film, "There will be no peace until we are healed," Greengrass called it "true of today as it is 600 years ago, for sure." Garfield picked that thread up and ran with it. "I'm going to include the billionaires in that as well, because they're the ones that might be the most soul sick," he said. "They're the ones that might need the healing the most in a way."

He's made a version of this argument before. Talking to Esquire last month, per The Hollywood Reporter, Garfield described "brutal taxation post-plague, incompetence in government, abusive practices" as the historical backdrop, and didn't dodge when asked if any of it maps onto now. "Yeah, here and in the United States, and all around the world," he said.

He also flagged the risk of the film getting claimed by people he'd rather it didn't. "One of the things that's cool about this film is that it's a bit of a Rorschach Test," Garfield said. "We get into really dicey territory, and to not see the Tommy Robinson stuff as anything but despicable is just ignorant, but I'm sure a bunch of people will look at this film and go, 'England first! What about us?'"

The Deadline comments section has already turned into the argument Garfield seemed to be predicting, half the replies insisting movies never change anything, the other half pointing at Blackfish and SeaWorld's stock price. Whether The Uprising does any of the galvanizing Garfield wants is a September 10 problem. Whether critics buy Greengrass's period-piece pivot after a career built on handheld realism is the other one.