: After multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it premiered in December 2021.

serves as a prequel to the popular Kingsman spy franchise, trading the modern-day high-tech gadgets of its predecessors for a gritty, World War I-era origin story. Directed by Matthew Vaughn , the film explores how a group of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds plotted a war to wipe out millions, prompting the creation of the independent intelligence agency. Key Production & Film Details

: The film features Ralph Fiennes as Orlando Oxford, the Duke who founds the agency, alongside: Gemma Arterton (Polly Wilkins) Djimon Hounsou (Shola) Harris Dickinson (Conrad Oxford)

as a memorable, "dancing" version of Grigori Rasputin.