Trailers usually give us extra details about a film. That will not be the case with the primary promo for Matthew Vaughn’s subsequent movie. When the Kingsman director’s spy thriller, Argylle, was initially introduced in 2021, reviews mentioned it was based mostly on the unreleased debut novel from writer Elly Conway. How thrilling for her, proper? Maybe not. It now appears she isn’t an actual individual; she’s a personality within the movie, which follows a author who will get caught up in her personal spy story.
That feels like a enjoyable little bit of meta-promotion for a meta-story, besides, Penguin Random House has an actual web site for writer Elly Conway’s upcoming debut ebook Argylle. So what’s actual and what’s not? We’re probably not certain! All we all know is the primary trailer for Argylle—that includes a tremendous forged, an tense worldwide chase, and an cute cat in a backpack—has us able to each watch and skim this story.
Obviously we need to speak about Henry Cavill’s hair, however we’d like a while to totally course of it. To do this we’ll most likely want at the very least 15 years. Twenty tops.
In the meantime, Argylle appears to be like like an entire lot of enjoyable based mostly on the trailer. It’s Stranger Than Fiction crossed with James Bond and Spy, all advised by means of Matthew Vaughn’s signature fashion. Here’s the movie’s official synopsis from Universal Pictures:
Bryce Dallas Howard is Elly Conway, the reclusive writer of a sequence of best-selling espionage novels, whose thought of bliss is an evening at home along with her pc and her cat, Alfie. But when the plots of Elly’s fictional books—which heart on undercover agent Argylle and his mission to unravel a worldwide spy syndicate—begin to reflect the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home turn into a factor of the previous.Accompanied by Aiden (Sam Rockwell), a cat-allergic spy, Elly (carrying Alfie in her backpack) races internationally to remain one step forward of the killers as the road between Elly’s fictional world and her actual one begins to blur.
Perfect premise. But as if that wasn’t sufficient, the film additionally stars: John Cena, Ariana DeBose, Dua Lipa, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Sofia Boutella, Samuel L. Jackson, and Chip, supermodel Claudia Vaughn’s precise cat.
With a forged like that and a narrative like this (written by the very actual Jason Fuchs of Wonder Woman), we don’t care if Elly Conway really exists or not. Though we want to know for certain ultimately.
Argylle involves theaters February 2, 2024. We don’t know if the ebook of the identical title ever will.
