Kingsman: The Secret Service
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Short description
Kingsman: The Secret Service follows Eggsy, a young man from London who has drifted into petty crime despite having served in the marines and possessing considerable intelligence. A chance encounter with Harry Hart, a suave veteran agent whose life Eggsy's father once saved, leads to an invitation to join Kingsman, a covert British intelligence organisation whose members model themselves on Arthurian knights. Eggsy enters a demanding selection process alongside other recruits, including Roxy, while a global threat takes shape around Richmond Valentine, a wealthy technology figure with disturbing plans. The film is based on the comic by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
Matthew Vaughn directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman, and produced it with Adam Bohling and David Reid. It was his fifth feature, arriving between X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Taron Egerton plays Eggsy, Colin Firth plays Harry Hart, Samuel L. Jackson plays Valentine, and Mark Strong, Sophie Cookson and Sofia Boutella appear as Merlin, Roxy and Gazelle. With 51 credited cast and 73 credited crew members, the production carried a budget of 81 million USD and returned 414 million USD worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.7/10 from 774,000 votes, on TMDB 7.6/10 from 18,175 votes, while a critics' rating of 6.8/10 from 264 reviews sits below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Over sixty actors auditioned for the role of Eggsy. The main contenders were Jack O'Connell, John Boyega, and Taron Egerton. Aaron Taylor-Johnson was also offered the role of Eggsy, but he declined. Ultimately, Matthew Vaughn favored Egerton.
- Colin Firth trained for six months to get into the necessary physical shape for his role.
- When Samuel L. Jackson's character speaks to the princess through the hole in her cage door, it can be noticed that his position changes between shots.
- To create the costumes for the secret service agents, artist Arianna Phillips collaborated with online clothing retailer Mrporter.com.
- One of the scenes featuring covers of the newspaper “The Sun” includes a cover with the headline “Brad Pitt ate my sandwich”.
- Matthew Vaughn advised Colin Firth to base his portrayal of Harry Hart more on David Niven than on Roger Moore.
- The trailer for the film features David Bowie’s song – 'Suffragette City'.
- The script did not call for Samuel L. Jackson's character to have a lisp, but during the first take, director Matthew Vaughn heard him lisping. After speaking with the actor, Vaughn learned that Jackson actually had a lisp before his acting career, but was ultimately able to overcome the speech impediment.
- In the "Secret Service" comic book, the character Gazelle was male, not female as depicted in the film.
- Eggsy’s stepfather, Dean, was played by Geoff Bell, known for his role as the leader of a Millwall FC hooligan group in the film “ID”; a scarf of exactly this football club hangs on Eggsy’s mirror in his room.
- There was a moment when Oscar Pistorius, a South African sprinter with both legs amputated below the knee, offered himself for the role of a character named Gazelle. At the same time, Pistorius' representatives were asked if he could convincingly play the role of a murderer. However, he eventually declined the role, deciding to focus on preparing for upcoming sporting events, and shortly thereafter, in February 2013, Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
- In the plot of the original comic, the person kidnapped is not the character Professor Arnold, but actor Mark Hamill, who played the role of Professor Arnold in the film.
- When Galahad tells Eggsy about Kingsman, he states that “Kingsman has been dressing the world’s most influential people since 1849.” This is the year that the Huntsman tailoring shop was founded, and Kingsman is modeled after it.
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, and Idris Elba were considered for the role of Richmond, but Samuel L. Jackson ultimately landed the part.
- In the scene where Arthur and Eggsy are drinking cognac, Arthur's glass sometimes empties and sometimes refills.
- During the end credits of the film, the song 'Get Ready For It' by Take That plays.
- Actor Colin Firth performed 80% of his own stunts.
- The film was based on the comic book 'The Secret Service' by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
- Emma Watson and Bella Heathcote were considered for the lead female role.
- Director Matthew Vaughn wanted Merlin (Mark Strong) to have a Welsh accent, but it proved too difficult for him, and Strong eventually convinced the director to let him use a Scottish accent instead.
- When Eggsy is at the police station, he says he wants to make a phone call. In the overall shot, there is no phone on the table, but after a cut, Eggsy picks up the phone that has unexpectedly appeared there.
- Filming at the Kingsman secret service headquarters took place at a Savile Row fashion house.
- The Kingsman shop seen in the film was modeled after the world-famous tailoring shop Huntsman. Production designer Paul Kirby and his team built the Kingsman shop in a studio pavilion in Leavesden (Hertfordshire, UK), and tailors from Huntsman lent them some props to make the shop look more realistic.
- Director Matthew Vaughn turned down directing 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' (2014) to head this project.
- Sofia Boutella had to undergo intensive training to prepare for her role, including training in Thai boxing and Taekwondo.
- At the 61st minute, when the action takes place in a club, the protagonist's gold chain appears and disappears several times.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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