I’m a hardcore James Bond nut and all-around superspy-loving cinephile. While I very much enjoy the more grounded Daniel Craig 007 era, I still love the campier, more outlandish types of spy cinema. Kingsman: The Secret Service very much delivered those things to me when it hit screens here in early 2015. Hell, of the numerous spy actioners that year, the actual Bond film was my third favorite of the bunch. Kingsman was #1, so its upcoming sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, was always sitting around the top of my most anticipated films of 2017. This trailer only further cements that…
Holy hell. Underwater cars, collapsible whips, projectile robot hands, and a certain returning chap with an eyepatch? Fox and Matthew Vaughn get me. What I’m seeing here is everything I could ever want out of a Kingsman sequel and more. Save for maybe Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, there is no other film hitting in 2017 that is more suited to my cinematic tastes than this. These visuals and concepts, this cast, and the same creative team as the first one? I am so ready for this movie. Is it September yet?
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is an original sequel based on the comic book created by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons. The picture is directed by Matthew Vaughn, from a screenplay by Vaughn and Jane Goldman. The film stars Taron Egerton as ‘Eggsy Unwin/Galahad’, Sophie Cookson as ‘Roxy Morton/Lancelot’, Mark Strong as ‘Merlin’, Colin Firth as ‘Harry Hart’, Julianne Moore as ‘Poppy’, Jeff Bridges as ‘Champagne’, Halle Berry as Ginger’, Channing Tatum as ‘Tequila’, Pedro Pascal as ‘Jack Daniels/Whiskey’, Edward Holcroft as ‘Charlie Hesketh’, Samantha Womack as ‘Michelle Unwin’, Michael Caine as ‘Chester King/Arthur’, Hanna Alstrom as ‘Princess Tilde’, and Poppy Delevingne as ‘Clara Von Gluckfberg’. Vinnie Jones, Michael Gambon, Matt Letscher, and Elton John also appear.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is currently slated to arrive in theaters on September 22nd, 2017.
