$952 million: Will one of the best action and spy sagas get a 4th movie?

Warning – The article below contains spoilers. And in particular on “The King’s Man” or “Argyle”, Matthew Vaughn’s latest feature film. Please be careful, even if it means moving when you come to certain crossings.

After turning down an X-Men sequel and kicking everyone who would listen that they weren’t interested in training, Matthew Vaughn has rethought Kingsman. Perhaps because he co-created the comic with Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, which he adapted into this action and spy film that featured Taron Egerton.

Nevertheless, he gave a sequel and a prequel to this feature film. and M6 broadcasts the second Thursday, February 1. Titled The King’s Man: First Mission, the film is set at the dawn of and after World War I and tells the story of the beginnings of an English espionage agency challenged by either Rasputin or William II in a Europe in total rebellion.

If he brought a bit of war film and adventure in the midst of action and espionage, Matthew Vaughn faced several obstacles, from writing problems to COVID, which seriously affected the fortunes of The King’s Man around the world. where it grossed just $125.9 million, where the two previous opuses surpassed 400. Is it enough to sound the franchise’s death knell? No.

Although Argylle, another mix of action and espionage, has just been released in our cinemas, and he is considering a musical comedy written by Damien Chazelle, Matthew Vaughn clearly has no intention of abandoning the secret agents of Kingsman. But what form will the next film take?

Kingsman 3?

This is currently the most likely option. And Matthew Vaughan took advantage of Argyle’s promotion to prove it. in the given interview Collider It is worth noting: “We have to go in advance Colin Too old, and so is Taron, if I dare say so.”– answers the screenwriter and director.

“Kingsman 3 There will definitely be a conclusion to the relationship. The first act is currently being written. the third too. The second one needs a little work. So we know how it ends and how it begins. “

And therefore, it is impossible to make the film in 2024, as Matthew Vaughn hoped last year, if the script is finished soon.

King’s Man: Second Mission?

If Kingsman didn’t announce a sequel, The King’s Man did. In the post-credits scene that introduced us to a future big bad like Marvel, with Thanos at the end of Avengers. Except it was about Adolf Hitler (played by David Cross) and the scene was discussed as being in bad taste at the time of release. But here again, Matthew Vaughn is not going to back down.

“The next episode tells the story of the rise of Hitler, how he came to power with the support of the English aristocracy”He already said ColliderIn October 2015, about this film, which will be named “Treacherous King” (“treacherous king”) and has already been written.

However, the project will be a lower priority than Kingsman 3 and, above all, we don’t yet know what form it will take. As The King’s Man has almost become a TV series, will its sequel see the light of day on the small screen after mixed results in Prime Mission cinemas?

A surprise crossover?

Attention (BIS) – This is where the biggest spoilers are hidden, as there are some twists and turns in Argyle, which opens in our cinemas on January 31st. So please go ahead if you haven’t seen it yet.

A few months ago, we would not have considered this hypothesis. Today is completely different. Because of the end of Argyle and the moment when author Eli Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) realizes that the spy he portrays in his novels really exists. And that he has the features he imagined (Henry Cavill in short), with a long neck.

As far as we’re concerned, the most important thing is less than the post-credits scene. Set twenty years earlier (so early 2000s), it shows a young Aubrey Argyll arriving at a pub called… The King’s Man. logo, so that there is as little doubt as in this sequence where whiskey is served under the Statesman brand, the American equivalent of Kingsman.

Can we expect a film that will be a prequel to Argylle and Kingsman? “The good news is that you ask the right question and you will have the right answers in the future”Matthew Vaughan answers when we ask him.

“There’s a whole logic to the craziness we’re developing. The first Argyle book just came out and it’s great. I hope the next chapter starts today and you’ll see some winks and crossovers.’

The good news is that you are asking the right question. And that you will have the right answers in the future.

Is Matthew Vaughn, the founder of the production company Marv Films in 2004, starting his own MCU? Marv’s cinematic universe, where the superheroes would be replaced by the spies of his movies? Hopefully, answers will come quickly, just to know when and how the Kingsman saga will continue.

Matthew Vaughn’s comments collected by Maximilien Pierret in London on 22 January 2024