Kingsman prequel The King’s Man gets first trailer ahead of 2020 release date
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The King’s Man, Matthew Vaughn’s prequel to his giddy, violent Kingsman adaptations, has received its first trailer. Set during and after World War I, the film follows “a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds” as they “gather to plot a war to wipe out millions.” The efforts to stop them results, it appears, in the origins of the Kingsman agency.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Gemma Arterton star alongside the likes of Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Rhys Ifans, Charles Dance, and Djimon Hounsou, the latter of whom looks cool as hell knife-fighting without a shirt on. If you’re missing Colin Firth and Taron Egerton, rest assured that they’ll be returning for a third Kingsman movie that Vaughn wants to set in motion next year.
Watch the trailer above ahead of the film’s release on Valentine’s Day, 2020. A poster is below.
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Look for the FBI based sequel the Kin’s Gmen coming next April.
I prefer the south asia based “The Ki’s Ng Men”
Just gonna give that periodic reminder that Mark Millar licks goats…
Now there’s what we need adapted. Suggested cast:Zazee Beats as Moniqua RambeauAaron Paul as The CaptainKaitlin Olson as Boom BoomIsla Fisher as Elsa BloodstoneKarl Urban as Robot Man
Nicolas Cage as Dirk Anger?
PERFECT
Karl Urban was already Skurge in Thor: Ragnarok.
Yeah, and Monica Rambeau was already cast in Captain Marvel, this is all just dream casting scenarios.
I mean, you’re technically right, but she was a kid in that movie. Lashana Lynch played Maria, Monica’s mom. Your casting could still happen!I love Zazie Beetz, but I’m calling Nicole Beharie for Monica Rambeau. She would nail it.
Yeah, I haven’t actually seen Captain Marvel but I knew she was in it.And wow, I really messed up the spelling on Zazie Beetz…
Er. As a child. No-one’s cast adult Monica yet.
more Karl Urban in everything!
This is a strange franchise. As with the other Millar mainstay Kickass it starts as a deconstruction and ends up embracing all the positive and negative tropes (including some really strange gender politics).
I’m not sure people are clamoring for a sequel and this looks peculiar, but I do love Ralph ‘you’re an inanimate fucking object’ fiennes.
First two were mostly fun, though number 2 was a little cheesy. This looks interesting, and right up the alley of my anglophile tastes.And was that a sword fight with Rasputin? I mean come on, what more do you want?
actually, this one looks shit ton better than either of the earlier two … and hope they keep it classy and outta the assplay entendres
I love a good knife-fighting scene, as well. I still haven’t watched the latest one (and judging by the Comments, I’ll probably pass), but the first one was pretty fun.Also: am I the only one who noticed this?
a third
Isn’t this the third Kingsman movie?
Already looks better than Golden Circle.
Yeah, that was…rough. I liked everything to do with Mark Strong in it, and disliked most everything else. Killing off the whole organization is the thing that seems irredeemable. It’s like how the x-films destroy the mansion every time.
how about that there seemingly isn’t a single normal impossible mission in the whole goddamn Mission: Impossible series. The series STARTS with the team being taken out. (like they’ve come close a few times but it’s like every installation, similar to having to explain why cellphones don’t work in a horror movie, begins with some reason they’re operating outside the organization.)
I’d put Elton John on the plus list too — I thought he got funnier and funnier. But yeah, the few positives were not nearly enough to counter the unforgivably poor choices they made. Bringing Harry back was a mistake in my mind, but I can understand why they did it. I cannot for the life of me understand why they decided to do it that way. Did they think audiences were so attached to Colin Firth that they’d enjoy seeing him wander around in a daze for 90% of the runtime? Really?!
Golden Circle was not great. For one: how are you going to not only kill off Roxy, ROXY!—but the dog? And then the plot twist with Pedro Pascal’s character was…kind of a misfire, right?
Everything about that movie was a misfire.
Everything about that movie that wasn’t Elton was a misfire. FTFY!
But Pascal did most excellently channel his inner Burt Reynolds. Pascal’s the guy if there’s ever going to be a White Lightning/Gator prequel.
The Pascal stuff was weird, because that plotline was clearly meant for Channing Tatum, until he had to have his role reduced.
Roxy is the only character not sitting down (she’s last seen sprinting off her bed) when the missile hits, so I’m hoping it’s a coded message that SHE didn’t die.
I need Roxy to be alive.
What, you didn’t want to see what happens when you run an IMAX camera down the body of a skeletal-thin woman as someone attempts to insert a finger into their vagina because spy stuff?Matthew Vaughn seems like such an asshole. It’s okay to just imply things that happen in movies, dude. I promise.
Hey, we prevented Archduke Ferdinand getting killed by that bomb. Great job, let’s call it a day….
Hey, this looks fun. Weird how it’s playing the thing completely straight considering the first movie, but sure, why not? It’s got to be better than the last one.
Double Post.
“The film follows ‘a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds” as they “gather to plot a war to wipe out millions.’”Great job preventing that there war, Kingsmen.
Great job preventing that there war, Kingsmen.
Just one guy, doh, so more like “King’s Man.” Singular.
They really should have called it Princesboy.
I’m still a bit blindsided by how much I enjoyed the first movie in this franchise. Samuel L. Jackson as Tweety-Bird certainly helped that part out. The Golden Circle… eh, not so much but Elton John was such a weird cameo that it definitely helped me enjoy it a bit more than I would have otherwise. See also the placement of Take Me Home Country Roads in the movie. That one can be explained by my weird love of sing-a-longs in movies. I still love the completely cheesetastic sing-a-long to Nevermind in the really forgettable movie Pan.
“Throughout time, our people robbed, lied, and killed…” For a second there I thought this was the Kingsmen movie that would be self-critical of the British Empire.Then not only did I realize how improbable that would be, I remembered that this era was when many of British colonialism’s worst horrors occurred. So I’m gonna skip this one, thanks.
Love this. Also good to know a 3rd present-day Kingsman movie is in the works, and I hope: A) a 4th and 5th, and B) perhaps a Statesmen prequel?
Didn’t the second one of these flops?
Commercially, it made $400m on a $100m budget. Critically, it’s more mixed than flopped. I guess the brand recognition is still strong enough with the general audience.
Damn I really liked that. Ralph Fiennes seems like a solid fit for that role. I’m surprised we haven’t seen him in the previous movies as a different character.
That’s a hell of a cast. Hopefully it won’t be shit like the other movies.