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Next week, Matthew Vaughn is back with the latest instalment of his ongoing Kingsman series \u2013 and the director has now spoken of his love for another spy film franchise: James Bond.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of the Boxing Day release of The King\u2019s Man<\/a> , Vaughn has revealed which actor he\u2019d love to take over as 007 from Daniel Craig, while also explaining why he doesn\u2019t think he\u2019ll ever get the chance to helm a film in the series.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think the Bond people would touch me with a stick. They don\u2019t like me,\u201d he told Comicbook.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, to be blunt, I love Bond.\u00a0 It\u2019s obviously a huge influence on me\u2026 You wait till you see [upcoming movie] Argylle. But Henry Cavill, that man was born to play Bond. When you see how he is in this film, I was just like, \u2018Wow, this guy is everything you\u2019d imagine Bond to have been, or be.’\u201d<\/p> Argylle will be Vaughn\u2019s next film after The King\u2019s Man, and tells the story of a world-class spy who suffers from amnesia and is tricked into believing he is a best-selling spy novelist.<\/p>\n Cavill stars alongside an impressive ensemble cast, with Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O\u2019Hara, John Cena, Samuel L Jackson and Ariana DeBose among those to also appear in the movie \u2013 and Vaughn has teased that it is \u201csort of a mixture of Die Hard, Romancing the Stone and Lethal Weapon\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just fun,\u201d he told Collider<\/a>. \u201cIf people think Kingsman was fun\u2026 this is on a different level where it\u2019s just going\u2026 I was sitting in lockdown, seeing how miserable we all were, and I read it and it made me smile. So, I just thought, you know what, let\u2019s make a movie during lockdown because we put it all together really quickly.<\/p>\n \u201cI was going stir crazy, like all of us at home, and I thought, well look, if I can make a movie and it\u2019s, you know, I thought it was a contained film. It\u2019s gone and exploded, and I couldn\u2019t help it. The set pieces got bigger and bigger and bigger, and I had zero discipline trying to keep it small. So, it\u2019s now huge. It\u2019s now actually the most expensive movie I\u2019ve made. It\u2019s more expensive than The King\u2019s Man, which is ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n The King\u2019s Man is released in UK cinemas on Sunday 26th December 2021. Looking for something else to watch? Check out our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0or visit our\u00a0Film<\/a>\u00a0hub for all the latest news and features.<\/strong><\/p>\n