The new CEO of Marv Films, producers of theKingsmanfilms, disclosed at a British entertainment conference last week that the company is planning out several more works in theKingsmanfranchise. This includesat least seven more moviesthat are currently somewhere in the planning stages, as well as aKingsmanTV show.
Zygi Kamasa, a former executive at Lionsgate, came aboard Marv Films as CEO in September. His remit is specifically to expand theKingsmanfilms from a couple of successful movies into a full-fledged franchise, and was speaking on the subject at Winston Baker’s UK 2020 Summit in London. While at Lionsgate, Kamasa served as an executive producer on films such astheHunger Gamesseries, all threeExpendablesmovies, and Gerard Butler’s three “grizzled Secret Service agent kills literally everyone"has Fallenfilms.
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Of course, any film being in the planning stages means almost nothing overall. Alotof movies get as far as the planning stages andstill never enter full production, let alone reach theaters. The news here isn’t that there are definitely going to be another sevenKingsmanfilms, but rather, that Vaughn, Kamasa, and Marv Group are sufficiently optimistic about the franchise’s future that they plan to be making new entries in the series for decades to come. This also marks a divergence from Vaughn’s previous public statements on the issue, where he was comparatively conservative, but now it looks like it’s full speed ahead.
Marv Films is a British company owned by Matthew Vaughn, through which he’s produced much of his work to date. It began as a collaboration between Vaughn and Guy Ritchie in 1997 under the name Ska Films, through which Ritchie produced his early filmsLock, Stock & Two Smoking BarrelsandSnatch. Ritchie and Vaughn parted ways in 2003, whereupon Vaughn rebranded Ska to Marv; his first film under the new banner was2004’sLayer Cake,starring Daniel Craig.
The third film in theKingsmenfranchise,a prequel calledThe King’s Manstarring Ralph Fiennes and Gemma Arterton, was delayed from September to next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Directed and co-written by Vaughn, it’s set in the early 1900s during the cold war in Asia between Britain and Russia, and explores the circumstances that led to the initial formation of the Kingsmen.
Another futureKingsman-universe project,Statesman,is early in development through Vaughn’s Marv Studios. While it has yet to start filming, Channing Tatum andHalle Berry are confirmed to returnfor another film starring the American equivalent of the Kingsmen. (Jeff Bridges is also reportedly onboard forStateman,but that was before his cancer diagnosis in October.) Vaughn also reportedly plans to return toKick-Asswith a reboot at some point in the future.
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