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Go ahead and watch The White Lotus.

I can recommend it, and it comes with reviews like this, stating it’s 2021’s best, and most uncomfortable, TV show.

Is The King’s Man going to be any good? I have no idea, because for now, all we have to go on is a trailer.

At least we have an actual release date. The project has been pushed back, and pushed back again, but a US theatre release date of December 22 is now locked in.

That’s close to two years since it was supposed to hit theatres.

The film, a prequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle, is set in the early 1900s, reports Collider:

Ralph Fiennes [plays] Orlando Oxford, a Duke who is part of a secret, independent intelligence agency that takes action to stop international threats before the British government decides to do something about it.

In the previous installments, Taron Egerton played a rookie who is introduced to the agency. Now, the new kid is played by Harris Dickinson.

The new trailer confirms we can once again expect director Matthew Vaughn’s signature action-comedy style, which mixes heavy violence with unexpected humor. In The King’s Man, this means wacky fights, swords shooting, heads rolling, planes falling apart mid-flight and pie-devouring — and the British agents continue to wear perfect gentleman’s attire.

Pie-devouring sounds like something I can get behind.

Roll tape on the latest trailer:

I really hope, for the sake of everyone involved in the long-suffering saga that is this movie, that the December 22 date happens.

[source:collider]