Summary
- The King's Man 2 will explore the rise of Hitler and his from the English aristocracy, potentially focusing on King Edward VIII.
- Director Matthew Vaughn plans to continue his unique approach of fictionalizing historical figures and events, and notes the current working title is The Traitor King.
- The potential betrayal storyline involving the Kingsman agency and King Edward VIII makes for an exciting premise in the sequel.
Kingsman franchise director Matthew Vaughn has provided an update for The King's Man's mid-credits scene featured Daniel Brühl’s villainous Erik Jan Hanussen introducing Russian revolutionary figure Vladimir Lenin to a young Adolf Hitler.
In a recent interview with Collider at this year’s New York Comic Con, the franchise’s director spoke about his plans for a potential continuation of The King’s Man and how it would follow on from the prequel’s mid-credits tease. Suggesting the next installment would follow the rise of Hitler and his from the within English aristocracy, he is currently referring to the project as The Traitor King. However, Vaughn is not currently sure whether the project will take the form of a movie or a television series, like he once originally intended for The King’s Man. Check out his comments below:
“The next one it’s it is about the rise of Hitler, and how Hitler did come to power and basically was ed by the English aristocracy… [We’ve] written it and it's pretty cool." [...]
"So I was like, 'well that's interesting' and how the world was worrying so much about Communism, that Fascism rose up. And I look at the world at the moment, everyone getting distracted and worrying about this [and that] and if you worry too much about [this] bad things can happen here. So it is a story that I think needs to be recalled. We're calling it The Traitor King."
What The King’s Man 2’s Working Title Potentially Reveals About Its Plot
While The King’s Man failed to achieve the same kind of widespread critical and commercial success as the original Kingsman movies, Vaughn’s unique approach of putting a new spin on famous historical figures remains one of the prequel’s biggest highlights. Between Rhys Ifans’ flamboyant turn as Grigori Rasputin, and the exploration of the familial connections between England’s King George V, Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II, and ’s Kaiser Wilhelm II (all played by Tom Hollander), Vaughn was able to conjure an entertaining, though thoroughly fictionalized of actual world-altering events.
Vaughn’s plan to follow Hitler’s rise to power seem to continue this trend, and his current working title hints at a new historical figure central to his story. King Edward VIII, son of the very same King George V who would serve as a founding member of the Kingsman agency, assumed the British throne after his father’s death in 1936. Though history perhaps best re the short-lived British monarch for abdicating his throne to marry an American divorcée after less than 12 months, historians would later come to believe he had extensive dealings with the Nazi regime as it rose to power.
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Though it is only speculation that King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor, may find himself the focus of The King’s Man 2, the idea of the freshly formed Kingsman agency actively fighting the actions of the British King seems like an exciting premise. Given Edward’s own father also became the Kingsman’s original agent Percival, the potential betrayal makes for some exciting dramatic prospects. Whether Vaughn makes The King’s Man 2 as a movie or a television series, the sequel’s potential underlying premise seems more than promising.
Source: Collider
