KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE - Poster and New Recruits Featurette
Here is a new poster and featurette for director Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service. I assume those unfamiliar with Vaughn’s previous work (Kick-Ass, Layer Cake) look at this film and have no idea what to make of it. The characters look very over the top, with Samuel L. Jackson as a lisping villain with no stomach for violence, newcomer Taron Egerton as a stereotypical foul-mouthed street kid, and a girl (Sofia Boutella) running around with swords for legs. Despite the campy elements, the movie also seems to take itself quite seriously. The cast is stellar — Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Mark Strong, Mark Hamill; and the action, though uniquely cartoonish, is extremely brutal — watch the featurette below and the red band trailer for a taste. Along with some new footage from the film, the featurette also has interviews with Vaughn and the cast talking about the story.
Vaughn is juggling tones and genres here, and he does that masterfully. The sheer fact that he walked away from directing X-Men:Days of Future Past to direct this new film means this is something special. He renewed everyone’s faith and interest in the X-Men franchise with First Class, and it looks like he’s putting the fun back in spy movies with Kingsman.
The movie will be premiering at Sundance on January 27th, so we’ll be sure to give you the final verdict after we watch the film. It will then open to general audiences on February 13th.
Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius