As revealed at Entertainment Weekly today, the adaptation of Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ “The Secret Service” is getting a new title, care of the director (and story-partner) Matthew Vaughn. It is now entitled Kingsman: the Secret Service.
It’s not that big of a change, but it’s probably a more platable one oddly enough. It is perhaps worth noting that, according to Amazon, the collected edition is called “The Secret Service: Kingsman,” so it’s not like this is really all that far off from the original title; however, telling people about the film Kingsman rolls off the tongue a bit more — and making “the Secret Service” part just a secondary name certainly opens up for more witty sequel titles than The Secret Service 2.
Oh, and there’s this new trailer just released. Take a look:
Not going to lie, though: I’m mainly posting this as an excuse to put all these dapper pictures of Colin Firth up on the site. Because, seriously — just look at these:
There are more photos over at Entertainment Weekly, but only the Firth ones are really worth talking about.
The film, slated for an October 24th release, stars a really impressive cast, including Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Samuel L. Jackson, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, and Jack Davenport (all rather noteworthy names if you’re a big fan of BBC programming, to say the least).
