Action, fantasy, adventure, English aplomb and good feelings, all mixed together for a stainless franchise like THE KING’S MAN which, this time, leaps back in time and returns to THE ORIGINS. A war story based on the comic book ‘The Secret Service’ by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons with subject and direction by Matthew Vaughn who also wrote the screenplay with Karl Gajudusek.
And what is the mother of all wars, the one most full of victims and criminals, if not the First World War? That is those early years of the twentieth century in which the espionage agency was born with its noble code of honor, that of Kingsman, engaged in the silent defense of all humanity.
“I wanted to make a film like the ones I grew up with as a boy – says the fifty-year-old director in the global London junket on Monday -, films like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DOCTOR ZIVAGO, those epic works, those adventure films of yesteryear.
Now making a film like that, on this kind of scale, isn’t exactly easy for the big investments it takes, so I figured if I mixed it into the King’s Man universe, Hollywood would be less afraid of this project. “
And it must be said that the film, in cinemas from January 5 with Disney, between James Bond and Indiana Jones, has rhythm and never bores, with the story of the birth of this independent intelligence agency, known as Kingsman and which collects elite warriors, who find themselves forced to confront a collection of the worst tyrants and criminal minds in history, including the demonic Rasputin (Rhys Ifans). Criminals all gathered for a common purpose: to put together a war that wipes out millions of human lives. Super cast with Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou and Charles Dance.
Central to the film are the figures of the Duke of Oxford (Ralph Fiennes) struggling with the education of his son Conrad (Harris Dickinson).
“Our ancestors were terrible people – his father tells Conrad at one point -. That nobility never came from chivalry, it came from being tough and ruthless.” “I liked the first films,” said Fiennes. “I really loved the clever balance between story and action that Matthew established. It’s an original way of dealing with the themes of espionage, so I was happy when the director proposed the prequel. The tone of the previous Kingsman films is very attractive, but this seemed to take the whole thing into another area, into a different arena. We all felt involved in this multilevel film. Inside is pathos, tragedy, sequences of exciting, fun and eye-catching action, and has a historical life of its own. “Finally, says Tom Hollander who plays three real roles in the film, George V, William II and Nicholas II:” Well, they’re all distinct characters, so I couldn’t shoot them. all on the same day and every time it was a few hours of make-up. The accent was a difficult thing for me being three different men and of different nationalities. Matthew’s idea of making them three first cousins arguing with each other was brilliant then and fans do not sink the world with this quarrel of theirs “. (HANDLE).
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