The new CEO of Marv Films, producers of the Kingsman films, disclosed at a British entertainment conference last week that the company is planning out several more works in the Kingsman franchise. This includes at least seven more movies that are currently somewhere in the planning stages, as well as a Kingsman TV show.
Zygi Kamasa, a former executive at Lionsgate, came aboard Marv Films as CEO in September. His remit is specifically to expand the Kingsman films 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 as the Hunger Games series, all three Expendables movies, and Gerard Butler's three "grizzled Secret Service agent kills literally everyone" has Fallen films.
Of course, any film being in the planning stages means almost nothing overall. A lot of movies get as far as the planning stages and still never enter full production, let alone reach theaters. The news here isn't that there are definitely going to be another seven Kingsman films, 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 films Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Ritchie and Vaughn parted ways in 2003, whereupon Vaughn rebranded Ska to Marv; his first film under the new banner was 2004's Layer Cake, starring Daniel Craig.
The third film in the Kingsmen franchise, a prequel called The King's Man starring 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 future Kingsman-universe project, Statesman, is early in development through Vaughn's Marv Studios. While it has yet to start filming, Channing Tatum and Halle Berry are confirmed to return for another film starring the American equivalent of the Kingsmen. (Jeff Bridges is also reportedly onboard for Stateman, but that was before his cancer diagnosis in October.) Vaughn also reportedly plans to return to Kick-Ass with a reboot at some point in the future.
Source: Deadline