Hi, Matthew, how are you?
I'm good, how are you doing? Yeah, not too bad.
Thank you.
Despite the miserable weather, we're in England, so what can you do?
Congratulations on the film.
Thank you.
I wanted to ask you.
I remember reading about Robert Zemeckis when he made Back to the future,
and he always said as much as he loves those films.
The third film, the Western film, was the one that if he ever
got to make it, that was the one that he really, really wanted to make.
And I wondered
whether that was the same for you, whether even though this is your baby in
some in some respects, whether this film was the one that
if you got to make it, this was the one that you really thought
that you would like to bring to the screen.
No, but there is a similarity in the sense.
I imagine the Zemeckis has grew up in Westerns.
I know I'm surmising, but and weirdly, what happened with this movie
I watched The Man Who Would be King and it just reminds me of these epic
and adventure historical huge movies that just took you to another place.
And and I thought, Let's do the movie Kingsman.
It was literally where that came from.
And then I remembered the, you know, the the folklore of what Harry was saying
to see how the Kingsman agency was founded and why and when.
And I went, Let's go off and make that movie.
So it was.
So there was, I suppose, westerns to me, westerns.
Zemeckis was the sort of the big epic adventure films to me,
and I liked Westerns, but they didn't have as much of an impact on me
as Lawrence of Arabia or The Man Who Would Be King
Yeah, and some of the sword sequences in this film are just
fantastic in terms of the way that you shot them in your visuals.
Did you have that?
Do you have those ideas and you had pretty early on?
Or does that come from when you watchsome Errol Flynn stuff
and was and they were amazing watching the choreography.
And I thought, Well, let's
just sort of do that style choreography, but then just shoot it differently.
And I remember saying there was a guy
so we could figure out a way of getting a camera on a sword and shoot that down.
And my DPs breaking out because all DPs hate wide angle
and this movie, we shot very much long lens and old lenses
and that style of photography, which is to be epic way of doing it in the past.
And then suddenly we're putting on like the equivalent of eight
mil little things onto the lens, but it look cool.
So I just said, look, if it's telling the story,
the DPs go nuts on me are going.
I said most people never... commenting on the lighting,
means the movie dull and actually that's one of the things .
That's an enhancement, not the reason to watch the film.
So it's but we yeah.
So we put some little cameras on those lenses and it was fun to look at.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
That's that's carry on. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
I have to say
one of the other great visuals is that I don't think there's anything better
than, seeing Ralph Fiennes in that suit with the top hat and the umbrella.
I mean, I remember he he he did play
John Steed at one point, but it gave me reverberations of him playing.
It must be great to have him on set,
and when he looks like that, he looks so cool and has such a presence.
He's the original Kingsman symbol is that there was no
there was nobody else to think that could have played this role.
And I am,
yeah, history, you
know, excuse this movie's historical, but
I couldn't imagine what would have happened in this movie
if I hadn't said yes.
You know, I don't know where we would have ended up.
We would definitely have had an incredibly different movie.
Ralph Ralph became sort of the true north of the film.
Yeah. I just want to. I have to ask you about Argylle.
I mean, the cost for your next film is absolutely stacked.
Not only do you have all these people,
you've got Catherine O'Hara, one of your movies,
which I think is just a huge compliment to you as a filmmaker,
you get someone like, how that going and are you?
Are you ready to hopefully release it next year?
It's still going.
I'm shooting as we speak, so it won't wrap
for another week and so far, so good.
one more week, we've got two more big dramatic scenes do
and then four more days of action, which the actors won't be happy about.
And and then it's finished the and then we go, Yeah, edit.
I'd like it to come out towards sort of this time next year is the plan,
but let's see what the world's like this time next year.
Yeah, fingers crossed. Fingers crossed.
Always lovely to talk to you, Matthew. Thank you so much for your time.
Well, thank you.