The team at the Kingsman organisation is adept at foiling plots and solving problems with a stiff upper lip, a nattily tailored suit and a swift kick in the swingers. But there are some situations even they can't defeat, and the merciless inevitability of studio date changes is one. Which is a long way of saying that Disney is moving The King's Man to February next year.
It's just the latest move for Matthew Vaughn's prequel film, which follows the early days of the Kingsman gang and is set against the backdrop of World War I. It finds its central duo in Ralph Fiennes’ Duke Of Oxford and Harris Dickinson’s Conrad – a father and son pair, promising a different dynamic to the mentorship in the previous movies. Vaughn recently talked to Empire about the movie and how it ties into the planned third main outing.
As mentioned, The King's Man is now set to arrive on 26 February next year. And it's not the only Disney title to suffer a shift – Pixar's Luca is moving to June 18, while Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is delayed, in the States at least, to 4 December. Talking of Zhao, her small art film for the studio, Marvel's The Eternals, is now officially just known as Eternals and is still on track to land on 12 February.