Matthew Vaughn gives big update on future of Kingsman

Kingsman fans are being taken right back to the beginning in upcoming prequel movie The King's Man – and it might not be the only trip to the past for the series.

Talking to Digital Spy, writer-director Matthew Vaughn addressed what's next for Kingsman. First up is the long-awaited Kingsman 3 which will bring back Colin Firth's Harry Hart and Taron Egerton's Eggsy, but will there be a sequel to the prequel?

"I think the two worlds can exist together, no problem. Next year we want to shoot Kingsman 3 or 4 depending on how you want to describe it, which would be the conclusion of the Harry and Eggsy story," he explained.

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"If people like this film, I'd love to get Ralph [Fiennes], Gemma [Arterton], Djimon [Hounsou] and everyone back and do another. There's a lot of historical events we could go through.

"As Harry said 80 or 90 years later, there's a reason why aristocrats develop weak chins, we need new blood. I think it'd be great to see how the Kingsman get to a point where Harry says enough is enough, we've got to go back to what the Kingsman was all about."

The King's Man takes place around the time of World War I and blends real-life events to the fictional origin story of the Kingsman agency.

It's easy to see how the same approach could be applied to other events up to when we first met Harry and Eggsy in Kingsman: The Secret Service. The seeds of the prequel movie were sewn in that first movie, but a prequel wasn't always planned for the series.

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"In The Secret Service, Harry does explain to Eggsy when they're going down the lift how and why and when the Kingsman was founded," Vaughn explained.

"We had the folklore of the Kingsman already written and then I watched a movie called The Man Who Would Be King and I thought, 'You know what, that could be The Man Who Became Kingsman' and we just went off and wrote the script."

The King's Man is out in US cinemas on December 22 and in UK cinemas on December 26.

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