Matthew Vaughn: What else has removed the director of the film «Kingsman: The Golden Ring"

"Stardust," "Kick-Ass", "X-Men: First Class" and other projects, which have made British director one of the most famous masters of cinema.

His film by Matthew Vaughn (or Matthew de Vere Drummond) began as a producer Guy Ritchie's early films. So, together they worked on "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch" and "Gone", between which wormed more picture with Vinnie Jones and Jason Steytemom "Bonecrusher" (Richie direct relation to it I was). But already in 2004, Matthew Vaughn presented his first director's work, whose name - "Layer Cake."

Without further ado, the newfound director decided to start with the crime comedy genre. Conceptually film continues the line of previous works: there are drugs and weapons, and serious Rififi.

It turned out, of course, is not so inventive and fresh, like his older friend and colleague, but still very, very bad. And in the movie lit up the future stars Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller and Tom Hardy. So this lumpy pancake (ie cake) accurately will not name. And the success of this Vaughn allowed to start work on the next project - an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fabulous novel "Stardust."

It also met some incredible cast: Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro, and Mark Strong and Jason Flemyng, and many others. But the story itself is almost the diametric opposite of the first work directed. There is no place for criminals, but there is a magic and cycling adventures, in which were the epicenter of the main characters.

The result was a good brisk history that periodically affects not quite childish questions, but more than justifies the slogan of the film: "stories that you will not tell on the night." The more interesting that after this Matthew Vaughn abruptly moved to the slogan "Shut up. Urine "in his other movies. This time - comic Mark Millar and John Romita - junior "Kick-Ass".

"Kick-Ass" is the first truly commercially successful project Vaughn. In addition to smart foundation, the driving music (based on - the composition of The Prodigy) and a pair of stars in the cast (Mark Strong and Nicolas Cage), the movie came out in excellent time.

It was during these years Movies on comics were key blockbusters. In 2008 he released "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk", two years later - the continuation of "Iron Man", and in 2011 - the first movies Thor and Captain America. It is these paintings and surrounded by the movie "Kick-Ass", which maliciously teased each. Nevertheless, after the story about psevdosupergeroe Matthew Vaughn began work on updating the saga "X-Men".

Professor X (James McAvoy) on his feet and without bald, Magneto (Michael Fassbender) on the side of good, and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Hank (Nicholas Hoult) and many other characters in the performance of young actors - the director decided to show a team of superhumans in the early days of their association in Xavier Institute.

There are virtually no rabid on the dynamics of scenes and dizzying computer graphics. Preachy pathos blockbusters also does not smell here. But Matthew Vaughn talked about the split two close friends, those values ​​that every one of them confessed. And did it so that each of the points of view it seems fair and evil is no longer so gloomy... and sometimes evil is not.

However, Matthew Vaughn refused direction respect the following parts of the saga, and switched to a new project, the continuance of which is just the same, and was the reason for writing this article. Of course, talking about the movie «Kingsman: The Secret Service."

And in it all all the stars came together - in every sense. On the one hand, to the set came Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Michael Caine, and even Mark Hamill. Join operator George Richmond and his team, who presented incomparable dynamics of the scene (at least remember the massacre in the church).

As a result, on the set it was cooked the most successful in commercial terms dish Matthew Vaughn. Love to the child, the free flight of fancy or financial success (and probably all together) spodvigli director to remain in the project and take the first sequel of his career. What came out of it, please read our weekly review of new films. And yet - here's the trailer.