Matthew Vaughn on The Kings Man, Crafting the Rasputin Action Scene, and Kingsman 3

With The King’s Man opening in theaters this week, I recently got to speak to director Matthew Vaughn about making the Kingsman prequel. During the wide-ranging conversation, he talked about why he thanked Peter Jackson in the credits, the sequence WETA VFX worked on in the movie, crafting the Rasputin action scene with Rhys Ifans as Grigori Rasputin (which is one of the best action scenes you’ll see this year), why the editing process was the hardest of any of his films, why he wanted the film to be like The Man Who Would Be King meets Kingsman, how he worked with cinematographer Ben Davis on the aesthetic of the film, why he loved working with Brad Allen on the action scenes, and more. In addition, he talked about Kingsman 3 (which he hopes to start filming by September), how he cut out an hour of The King’s Man in the edit, how he hopes to show extended cuts of some of his films in a few years, and how he’s going to use some of the deleted scenes from Kingsman: The Golden Circle in Kingsman 3. As yo