Snart har Matthew Vaughns Kingsman-prolog The King's Man premiär i Sverige och du är en av de som älskade Sean Connery-filmen The Man Who Would Be King har du säkerligen något att se fram emot. Filmregissören avslöjade nämligen i en intervju med Slashfilm att kungrullen från 1975 var den primära inspirationskällan till det nya Kingsman-kapitlet:
"It all started when I re-watched 'The Man Who Would Be King.' It reminded me when I fell in love with... I don't know if you've seen it, but it's an older film which, if you haven't seen it, for anyone who's reading this go watch it. It was a movie that had everything in it... epic adventure, unbelievable acting. I think one of Sean Connery's finest performances. [It had] Michael Caine, the original Kingsman. It had pathos — important messaging, comedy, fantasy. Had everything. And I was like, 'Wow, why don't we...' and I jokingly said, 'We should make 'The Man Who Would Be Kingsman.' "
För Vaughn var det starten på en historielektion om det förödande världskriget och var något han inte kunde släppa förrän han faktiskt gjorde verklighet av idéen:
"It just stayed in my head. I was like, 'Oh God, now I'm getting this itch. I'm going to have to scratch it,' and then I remembered the scene between Eggsy and Harry, and Eggsy explained why the Kingsman was founded, when it was founded. Everything about where Kingsman came from. And then I went off and I read about World War I, and these characters were popping off the page to me.
"The history, I couldn't believe... actually I wasn't any good at school, so I didn't really listen to any of this stuff. Then, when I was reading about it, I was like, 'Oh, this is really cool.' And I thought, 'God, I'm going to have to do this! I'm going to try and have my cake and eat it, like a Bakewell tart, dare I say.' I just had this sort of idea in my head, how to make a movie like I grew up on and loved, but also [one that] develops into other movies I love [of] the more modern style."
The King's Man får svensk biopremiär den femte januari och du kan läsa en recension av filmen här. Vill du se den? Vad tycker du om The Man Who Would Be King?