Tag: Dave Gibbons

Watch A New Featurette For ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: Following the bad-ass red-band trailer from last week, Fox has just debuted a new featurette for next year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service.

The video features plenty of insight from Kingsman (and Kick-Ass) director Matthew Vaughan, as well as interviews with Taron Egerton’s ‘Eggsy’ and a few others. The featurette also features some new clips, and is more than worth the watch for those looking forward to the film!

The performances look fantastic, the action is insane, and February totally can’t come soon enough. Take a look at the featurette below, and let us know what you think! Kingman: The Secret Service stars Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton and Samuel L. Jackson, and hits theatres on February 13th, 2015.

‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ Gets A Red-Band Trailer

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: I was really, really excited to check out Kingsman: The Secret Service this past October… but then the damned thing was delayed.

In any case, everything that we’ve seen from the film so far has been nothing but bad-ass, and all of us here at Geekscape cannot wait to see more of this Dave Gibbons/Mark Millar adaptation.

The performances look fantastic, the action is insane, and February totally can’t come soon enough. Take a look at the new red-band trailer below, and let us know what you think! Kingman: The Secret Service stars Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton and Samuel L. Jackson, and hits theatres on February 13th, 2015.

Colin Firth Is A BAMF In The New Trailer For ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: We’d almost be lining up for Kingsman: The Secret Service right about now, had it not been for that unfortunate delay to February of last year.

Instead of seeing the feature, it looks like we’ll have to settle for this awesome new trailer, in which Colin Firth kicks some serious ass.

The performances look fantastic, the action is bad-ass, and we really cannot wait to see more. Take a look at the trailer below, and let us know what you think. Kingman: The Secret Service stars Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton and Samuel L. Jackson, and hits theatres on February 13th, 2015.

Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men First Class), Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

The First Trailer For Matthew Vaughn’s ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ Deploys!

by Jonathan

We got our first sneak peak at WonderCon last month and now we have an even bigger look. Today, Yahoo Movies! has released the first trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’, based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons (which is definitely worth seeking out if you haven’t already)!

The film stars Colin Firth as a British secret service agent and newcomer Taron Egerton as his fresh-faced recruit. No telling from the trailer if they’re going to keep the estranged uncle/nephew storyline from the comics that was a big part of the comic (but let’s hope so).  They’re up against Samuel L. Jackson’s villain and Michael Caine also appears. It’s set in Britain and is an action movie… so of course Michael Caine’s gotta be in there!

We’ve been looking forward to this one since it was announced and can’t wait for its release in October. Take a look at the trailer:

 

Fox To Distribute Matthew Vaughn’s ‘The Secret Service’

by Shawn Madden

Development is moving forward for Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming film adaptation of Mark Millar’s The Secret Service. Vaughn has recently completed the film’s script with Jane Goldman and is said to follow the comic closely. Mark Hamill has already signed on to cameo has himself in the film which is slated to start filming in August. A  plot description of the comic series can be found below.

 

From the writer of Kick-Ass and the artist of Watchmen comes a collaboration decades in the making! The world’s greatest secret agent is on the most exciting case of his career. But will the end of the world as know it take a back seat to training his street-punk nephew to be the next James Bond? meanwhile, what’s the secret link between a series of kidnapped sci-fi stars, the murder of an entire town, and a dark secret from inside Mount Everest? Under Uncle Jack’s supervision, Gary’s spy skills and confidence blossom–but when the duo learn what’s behind the celebrity kidnappings, the knowledge comes at a price. The conspiracy begins to unravel, but who can be trusted when so many prominent figures seem to be involved? It’s a must-be-seen-to-be-believed action spectacle!

 

It has also been revealed that Fox has the release date for The Secret Service for November 14th, 2014.

 

Source: Deadline

Geekscape Comics Reviews: “Before Watchmen: Minutemen”

by Scott Alminiana

This week sees  DC’s controversial return to the world of Watchmen with Before Watchmen: Minutemen. This six-issue series is written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke, the man behind the fantastic mini-series DC: The New Frontier as well as the man responsible for bringing The Spirit into the mainstream DC universe. I love both of those aforementioned books and thus was looking forward to see Cooke’s take on the Minutemen. To say that I was let down is an understatement. So, what went wrong? Lemme break it down for you…

Let me just start by saying that Darwyn Cooke’s artwork is not the problem in this issue, in fact it is actually the issue’s saving grace. His artwork is uniquely his own and whenever you see a Darwyn Cooke page you know it’s one of his. His style fits the book perfectly. With the issue mainly set in 1939, the art fits the time setting nicely and still gives it a timely feeling. No, the art is not the problem at all. Well, then what is already?

The story is the big problem with the premiere issue. Why is it such a problem? Well, it’s because it’s boring. Issue one follows original Nite Owl, Hollis Mason, as he recalls the history of the first masks and what brought them together to form the Minutemen. The premise sounds interesting but the execution is not at all. Each member is given a few pages that shows their start in the world of the masks but the problem is that we aren’t really introduced to the characters, they are shown to us. We never truly get a chance to know who these characters are before we move on to the next character and soon forget ever meeting the previous character. I felt no connection to any of them and by issue’s end could care less about not only why they want to be heroes but also why they’d want to form a team. This is only a six-issue series so a slow burn story is not the way to go. Especially with this being the flag-ship book of the Before Watchmen prequels.

No, I didn’t hate this book, but I did expect a lot more. This was the Before Watchmen book that I was looking forward to the most and now I feel slightly cheated and very let down. Will I read issue two? Yeah, but I’m not looking forward to it. Should you read issue one? I say, save your money and go pick up DC: The New Frontier trade instead.

Sit back and watch the minutes slowly tick away