Matthew Vaughn: what else did the director of the movie "Kingsman: the Golden Circle" shoot?

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

"Stardust", "Kick-Ass", "X-Men: First Class" and other projects that made the British director one of the most famous filmmakers.

Matthew Vaughn (or Matthew de Vere Drummond) began his film career as a producer of Guy Ritchie's early films. So, together they worked on "Lock, Stock, Two Trunks", "Big Jackpot" and "Gone", between which there was also a picture with Vinnie Jones and Jason State "Bonecrusher" (Richie had no direct relation to it). But already in 2004, Matthew Vaughn presented his first directorial work, whose name is "Layer Cake".

Without further ado, the newly minted director decided to start with the genre of crime comedy. Ideally, the film continues the line of previous works: there are drugs, weapons, and serious men's showdowns.

It turned out, of course, not as ingenious and fresh as that of his older friend and colleague, but still very, very good. The film also featured future stars Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller and Tom Hardy. So this pancake (that is, cake) is definitely not lumpy. And the success of this picture allowed Vaughn to start work on the next project - the adaptation of the fairytale novel by Neil Gaiman "Stardust".

Some incredible caste has also gathered here: Michelle Pfeiffer, and Robert De Niro, and Mark Strong, and Jason Fleming, and many others. But the story itself is almost the diametrical opposite of the director's first work. There is no place for crime, but there is magic and a cycle of adventures, in the epicenter of which the main characters are.

The result is a good brisk story that occasionally touches on not entirely childish issues, but more than justifies the film's slogan: "A fairy tale that you can't tell at night." It is all the more interesting that after that Matthew Vaughn abruptly switched to the motto “Shut up. Mochi”in another film adaptation. This time - a comic strip by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. "Kick-Ass".

Kick-Ass was Vaughn's first truly commercially successful project. In addition to the chic fundamentals, driving music (based on The Prodigy compositions) and a couple of stars in the cast (Mark Strong and Nicolas Cage), the film came out at an excellent moment.

It was during these years that comic-book films became key blockbusters. In 2008, "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" were released, two years later - the sequel to "Iron Man", and in 2011 - the first films about Thor and Captain America. It was these pictures that surrounded the film "Kick-Ass", which sarcastically teased each of them. And nevertheless, after the story of the pseudo-superhero, Matthew Vaughn began work on updating the X-Men saga.

Professor X (James McAvoy) on his feet and without a bald head, Magneto (Michael Fassbender) on the good side, as well as Mystic (Jennifer Lawrence), Hank (Nicholas Hoult) and many other heroes played by young actors - the director decided to show a team of supermen at the dawn their associations at the Xavier Institute.

There are practically no scenes frenzied by the dynamics and dizzying computer graphics. The moralizing pathos of blockbusters here also does not smell. But Matthew Vaughn talked about the split between two close friends, about the values that each of them professed. And he did it in such a way that each of the points of view seems fair and evil is no longer so hopeless … and sometimes it is not evil either.

However, Matthew Vaughn refused to direct the next parts of the saga, and switched to a new project, the continuation of which was just the reason for writing this article. Of course, we are talking about the movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service".

And in him, in general, all the stars converged - in every sense. On the one hand, Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Michael Caine and even Mark Hamill came to the set. Cinematographer George Richmond and his team joined in, presenting a stage that was unmatched in terms of dynamics (remember, for example, the massacre in the church).

As a result, Matthew Vaughan's most commercially successful dish was prepared on set. Love for his brainchild, free flight of imagination or financial success (and probably all together) prompted the director to stay in the project and take up the first sequel in his career. Find out what came of this in our weekly movie review. Until then, here's the trailer.