A Kingsman for all Seasons

Suited, booted, and obstructed, THE KING’S MAN is finally on the horizon; time to take a closer look at this much anticipated historical expansion of the series...

- Jack Bottomley

“As one of our founding Kingsman once said: this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

Hold your horses there, Harry, because we are far from the end and far from being done with the beginning of the Kingsman story! Director Tim Burton once said, “Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.” Well, nowadays, most continuing cinematic stories live by that ethos, as we see franchises increasingly bulk up their narratives with spin-offs, prequels, sequels, soft reboots and even ‘sidequels’; it’s all very exciting, or confusing - delete as applicable. Anyway, back on point, the fact is that you can never quite be sure when a story is primed to be one that spans multiple films and years. Just look at how Ridley Scott’s Alien has gone on to birth a wild franchise over the years, from synths with a god complex to cloned Ripley and her human-Xennomorph baby. Back when Matthew Vaughn unleashed his terrific adaptation of Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar’s 2012 comic in 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, we never expected a series, let alone one slowly expanding six years on.

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