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Kingsman is an American comic book series that debuted in 2012 with the first graphic novel, subtitled The Secret Service. Three sequels, subtitled Mum's the Word, The Big Exit, and The Red Diamond, followed in 2016, 2017, and 2018 respectively.
- Kingsman (franchise)
Kingsman is a British multimedia franchise consisting of...
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a 2014 spy action comedy...
- Kingsman (franchise)
Kingsman is a British multimedia franchise consisting of action comedy comic books, films, and video games that follow the missions of Agent Galahad of Kingsman, a fictional secret service organization.
Kingsman è un media franchise britannico, composto da fumetti, film e videogiochi, di genere commedia d'azione, che segue le missioni dell'agente Galahad della Kingsman, un'organizzazione fittizia di servizi segreti. Basato sull'omonima serie di fumetti creata da Mark Millar e Dave Gibbons, una versione Marvel Comics del 2012 ambientata nel ...
Kingsman is an American comic book series that debuted in 2012 with the first graphic novel, subtitled The Secret Service. Three sequels, subtitled Mum's the Word, The Big Exit, and The Red Diamond, followed in 2016, 2017, and 2018 respectively.
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In 1997, probationary secret agent Lee Unwin sacrifices himself in the Middle East to save his superior, Harry Hart. Blaming himself for Lee's death, Harry returns to London and gives Lee's young son Gary "Eggsy"a medal engraved with an emergency assistance number. Seventeen years later, Eggsy is a rebellious chav, having dropped out of training fo...
Hanna Alström appears as Tilde, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Bjørn Floberg appears as Morten Lindström, the Swedish Prime Minister. Lily Travers portrays Lady Sophie. Jonno Davies plays Lee Unwin, Eggsy's father and a former Kingsman candidate who sacrificed himself to save Hart. Nicholas Banks, Nicholas Agnew, Rowan Polonski and Tom Prior portray...
Development
The project originated when Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn were at a bar discussing spy movies, lamenting that the genre had become too serious over the years and deciding to do "a fun one." To have the time to make the film, Vaughn had to opt out of directing X-Men: Days of Future Past, which he called "a really tough decision".He reasoned that if he did not do it, "somebody else ... [would] wake up and do a fun spy movie. Then I would have written a bloody screenplay that no one would want...
Casting
Colin Firth joined the cast to lead the film on 29 April 2013. It was initially reported in 2013 that Leonardo DiCaprio was in talks to play a villain, although Vaughn himself later denied that he was ever considered, stating that he came as close to playing the role "as I am to becoming the Pope." Instead the role of the villain went to Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson took the role in part because of a career-long dream to be in a James Bond movie. As he felt that this was unlikely to come true,...
Filming
Principal photography began 6 October 2013 in Deepcut, Surrey, on a budget reported to be one-third of the $200 million budget of Skyfall. The Alexandra Road Estate in Camden was used for Eggsy's home area, and some scenes were filmed at Imperial College London. The Black Prince Pub in Kennington, South London, was used for various fight scenes and the car chase. Savile Row in Mayfair was also employed as a location and the exterior of tailors Huntsman at No. 11, which provided the clothes, a...
The film's premiere was held in London on 14 January 2015, with director Vaughn and stars Firth, Egerton and Strong attending; Take That performed the film's theme live. A regional premiere was held in Glasgow at exactly the same time as the London event, and live footage was streamed from the premiere to Glasgow. Mark Millar also hosted a charity ...
Box office
Kingsman: The Secret Service grossed $414.4million worldwide; $24.2million of the takings were generated from the UK market and $128.3million from North America. Kingsman opened on 30 January 2015 in the UK, Sweden, Ireland and Malta. In the UK the film opened with $6.5 million and debuted at second place (behind Big Hero 6). The following weekend it opened in two additional countries: Australia and New Zealand. It debuted atop the box office in both countries and had a successful opening in...
Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes sampled 264 critics and judged 75% of the reviews positive, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads "Stylish, subversive, and above all fun, Kingsman: The Secret Service finds director Matthew Vaughn sending up the spy genre with gleeful abandon". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE) ra...
Millar and Vaughn stated that a sequel was possible if the film performs well at the box office, and Vaughn expressed interest in directing the sequel. Vaughn also noted that he hoped to have Firth back in the sequel, and that Strong was interested in returning as well. It was confirmed that Taron Egerton was contracted for the sequel. When asked h...
Kingsman: The Secret Service at IMDbKingsman: The Secret Service at the TCM Movie DatabaseKingsman: The Secret Service at the Internet Movie Firearms Database8 nov 2017 · Mark Millar. KINGSMAN is the critically acclaimed comic book series by Kick-Ass writer MARK MILLAR and Watchmen's DAVE GIBBONS. Now a Hollywood blockbuster starring Colin Firth and Taron Egerton, and directed by MATTHEW VAUGHN, KINGSMAN reinvents the spy genre for the 21st century.
Kingsman: Secret Service è un film del 2014 diretto da Matthew Vaughn. Liberamente tratta dalla miniserie a fumetti The Secret Service scritta da Mark Millar e illustrata da Dave Gibbons, è il primo capitolo del franchise di Kingsman, e ha come protagonisti Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Sofia Boutella, Mark Strong e Michael ...
