"There are other ways of doing your duty." The first trailer for 20th Century Fox's The King's Man, the prequel to 2014's Kingsman: The Secret Service is here. The film delves into the origin story of the secret organisation and stars Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and more. If the trailer has anything to go by, fans are in for a real treat.
Ralph anchors the prequel cast filling the 'mentor' role that Colin Firth played in the first Kingsman, with Harris Dickinson playing the new recruit a la Taron Egerton in the initial film. "Real power is not found running off to war," the Duke played by Ralph says. "Real power is understanding who you're truly fighting."
The trailer begins on a shot of a desolate battlefield, slap bang in the middle of World War I. Not the kind of setting you to expect for a big-budget action film let alone a Kingsman film. In fact, very little about this trailer feels like it’s from a Kingsman film at all. It’s a more serious, sombre, grown-up affair. For the third time around, director Matthew has leaned into a new, distinct aesthetic here that sets The King’s Man apart from the first two Kingsman films.
We even get an amazing sequence of actor Rhys Ifans unleash his unique dance-fight moves as Rasputin, the mad unlikeable monk who was an advisor to the Russian Royal Family. “Rasputin is one of the bad guys,” said the director. “There are three main villains, and he’s one of them. We took all of these mad, historical characters that we knew were villains, and we played them for real in it.” Expect to see the likes of Mata Hari and Erik Jan Hanussen, “the guy who was Hitler’s astrologer.” He’ll be played by Daniel Bruhl.
The King's Man will be out on February 14, 2020. Watch the first trailer here:
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