With a summer 2017 release date already locked in, Kingsman 2 is taking shape, and we have some details on the upcoming spy sequel. For starters, we finally have the title: Kingsman 2 is officially called Kingsman: The Golden Circle. What exactly the Golden Circle is remains a mystery at this point.
Empire Magazine (via CBR) has the details on Kingsman: The Golden Circle. The concept art shows a pile of rubble that used to be Kingsman HQ, and it’s after that attack that Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and Merlin (Mark Strong) head to the U.S. to team up with their American counterparts, known as Statesman. The organization is lead by Jack, who is described as a “swaggering, sharpshooting cowboy,” and Ginger, played by Halle Berry.
Speaking to the magazine, director Matthew Vaughn explained how he came around to directing Kingsman: The Golden Circle:
“I didn’t know if I wanted to direct this or not. I was worried about the villain. Spy films are only as good as their villains. Then one morning I woke up with the whole storyline in place, and a new villain plot.”
We think he may be talking about the new villain Poppy, played by Julianne Moore. You can see Poppy’s lair, as well as the Statesman HQ (disguised as a whiskey distillery) in the images below. Want more, of those pics? I thought you would say yes, go here, and you can see images of a Kingsman cab going underwater like a submarine.
One of the most exciting scenes from the Kingsman: The Secret Service was a massacre set inside an American church. Vaughn knows fans are hoping for another scene on that level, but instead promises some other crazy stuff including a scene of the heroes getting attacked by “a massive fucking frankfurter”:
You try not to read what people want, but they do want another church sequence. I have no reason for another massacre to happen. But I have other sequences you’ve never seen before.
Vaughn is going to have his work cut out for him if he wants to top that church sequence, but it’s cool to hear he’s trying to bring something new to the table, rather than just repeating what worked the first time.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle arrives June 16, 2017.
