The King's Man (2021)
- During the filming of The King's Man, Ralph Fiennes improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The original script for The King's Man was written over a decade before production finally began in 2021.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Matthew Vaughn's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
The King's Man is a 2021 American action spy film directed by Matthew Vaughn, a prequel exploring the origins of the Kingsman intelligence agency during World War I. Ralph Fiennes stars as Orlando Oxford, the Duke of Oxford, a pacifist aristocrat who must abandon his principles and found the Kingsman organization when a shadowy cabal led by a Scottish shepherd played by Matthew Goode manipulates the Russian, German, and British empires into war. The film weaved real historical figures β Rasputin, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Mata Hari, and others β into an alternate history thriller.
Rhys Ifans's performance as Rasputin, depicted as a flamboyant, sexually predatory mystic who engages in an elaborate dance-fight, was the film's most wildly entertaining sequence. The King's Man earned $127 million worldwide on a $100 million budget, a disappointing return partly attributed to multiple pandemic-related release delays.
