KINGSMAN CALLS FOR FIENNES . . .
Ralph Fiennes will be going into the trenches in the new Kingsman film: a prequel that will explore the origins of the intelligence organisation.
The first two films — The Secret Service and The Golden Circle — had Colin Firth and Mark Strong supporting Taron Egerton as Eggsy, the young man recruited into the Kingsman clan.
But the third picture — currently known as Kingsman: Untitled — will be set during World War I and will focus on the man who would be Kingsman: a character to be played by Fiennes.
plot details on the film, which shoots early next year, are sketchy; though I understand it will include some fictional storylines involving the real life Duke of lancaster’s Regiment which, for more than a century, has included Kingsman as a unique rank, the equivalent of private.
producer and director Matthew Vaughn and his team have started booking studio space for the picture, which will be released on November 8, 2019 — the date originally claimed by Bond 25, before behind-thescenes upheaval forced the 007 picture to shift to a February 2020 release.
Fiennes is expected to be in that film, too.
The actor is riding high at the moment, what with top notices for his antony (opposite Sophie Okonedo’s marvellous Queen of the Nile) in antony and Cleopatra, which I saw at the National Theatre on Tuesday.
and last week I revealed that he will star with Nicole Kidman in The Dig, which films next summer.
Up- and- coming actor harris Dickinson will join Fiennes in the third Kingsman movie.
Dickinson is currently appearing in the Getty family drama Trust, directed by Danny Boyle on BBC TV. he plays teenage kidnap victim John paul Getty III.