Fox has revealed several pictures from their upcoming film Kingsman: The Secret Service (sounds like a direct to video junker) directed by Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class, Layer Cake) and based on the comic from “Kick-Ass” creators, Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
The film follows Colin Firth, playing a veteran secret agent who leads a young protege into the shadowy business. Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine co-star.
Vaughn spoke with EW about the film saying, “We missed all the spy movies we loved as kids, whether it was Bond or In Like Flint. They had a sense of humor as well as being a thriller… With [Kingsman], we’re subversing the spy movie genre as we know it.”
Vaughn said the idea of Kingsman camea about over a “few drunken conversations at the pub” with Millar. Great! You can read some thoughts on the film from Firth right here as he talks about the film overall, his training regimen at the age of 53 and more.
Fox has set an October 24 release date for the film and I suspect we’ll have a new trailer shortly and will likely play in front of X-Men: Days of Future Past this weekend.
Check out the rest of the pictures and poster (via CS) below.
