Kingsman: The Secret Service and X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn thinks the world could maybe use a break from superhero movies.
Speaking with Screen Rant at New York Comic Con, Vaughn commented on the current state of the superhero genre and why he thinks Hollywood taking “a little bit of time off” from making more of them could prove to be beneficial.
“I genuinely don’t know what’s happening with the superhero [genre] in the sense that, I do think, maybe we all need a little bit of time off from it,” he said. “Maybe someone will make something so great that we will get excited again and remind everybody that just having identical ways of making superheroes… Superhero films are films. It’s a film that has superheroes in it. I think what happened was that they became superheroes, and the film part wasn’t that important.”
What superhero movies has Matthew Vaughn made?
After producing a number of Guy Ritchie films like 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and 2000’s Snatch, Vaughn made his directorial debut in 2004 with Layer Cake starring Daniel Craig. He was then hired to direct 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand but ultimately left the project before it began filming.
After making Stardust in 2007, Vaughn directed 2010’s Kick-Ass, 2011’s X-Men: First Class, 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, 2017’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle, and 2021’s The King’s Man.
Vaughn’s next project is a spy thriller titled Argylle, which stars Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Due Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sofia Boutella.
“Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World franchise) is Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of best-selling espionage novels, whose idea of bliss is a night at home with her computer and her cat, Alfie,” the synopsis reads. “But when the plots of Elly’s fictional books—which center on secret agent Argylle and his mission to unravel a global spy syndicate—begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past,” says the synopsis. “Accompanied by Aiden (Oscar winner Sam Rockwell), a cat-allergic spy, Elly (carrying Alfie in her backpack) races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Elly’s fictional world and her real one begins to blur.”
Argylle releases theatrically on February 2, 2024.
