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Before they were classy , tops spies saving the present - solar day world , the heroes of Fox ’s Kingsman franchise were classy in an old - timey way befitting of an epoch where parachutes were considered cut - edge technology . The latest trailer forMatthew Vaughn ’s coming Kingsmen prequel , The King ’s Man , is lightsome in the elbow room of plot , but it ’s racy in the franchise ’s signature legal action sequences that reek ever - so - slightly of camp .

Even though The King ’s Man is set almost a decade before the events of the Downtown Abbey photographic film , the two flick live in a very specific space that both celebrates and pry a bit of playfulness at the conception of British aristocracy . Ralph Fiennes ’ Duke of Oxford is hellbent on stopping Rhys Ifans as Grigori Rasputin , but he insist on doing so with the dignity and panache befitting of a proper gentleman . The Duke knows that beneath his immaculately - polished exterior , he ’s a deadly killer willing to do whatever it acquire to maintain his country , the kind of mind-set that newcomer Conrad ( Harris Dickinson ) is conk to have to adopt speedily if he really want to become a part of the nascent organization of spies .

The King ’s Man gain dramatics on February 14 .

Scenes from The King’s Man.