Argylle is a spin-off of the Kingsman franchise. It was released in February, 2024.
Plot[]
Elly Conway, an introverted spy novelist, has almost finished her fifth book about Aubrey Argylle, the eponymous character of the Argylle series, but suffers from writer's block after feedback from her mother, Ruth. On a train journey to visit Ruth and her father, Barry, Elly is saved from an ambush by an actual spy, Aidan Wylde, who explains to her that a devious organization, known as the Division, has targeted her because her novels seemingly predict their future. Aidan travels with Elly to England, hoping that her next chapter will reveal how to stop the Division.
In London, the duo search for a "Masterkey" that would help expose the Division referenced in Elly's novels. Suspecting Aidan wants to kill her too, Elly calls her parents for help. As they arrive, Aidan reveals that her parents are operatives of the Division, forcing him and Elly to fend them off before fleeing. Escaping to France, Aidan and former CIA deputy director Alfie Solomon reveal that Argylle is not entirely fictional: Elly is in fact agent Rachel Kylle ("Argylle" seemingly having been derived from "R. Kylle"), who was captured and brainwashed by the Division five years earlier and made to believe that Dr. Margaret Vogeler (Ruth) and Director Ritter (Barry) were her parents. Elly put her suppressed memories, in modified form, into her novels; Aidan resurfaces as one of her characters, Wyatt, while Alfie reappears as her cat. With the latest Argylle novel, Rachel was about to reveal the whereabouts of the Masterkey to the world.
Aidan and Rachel travel to the Arabian Peninsula, where they retrieve the Masterkey, but are cornered by the Division, who return them to their base. Ritter reveals that Rachel was in actuality a double agent and one of their most loyal assets for the Division, after which she offers to interrogate and subsequently shoots Aidan. She also locates Alfie for them, but reveals that she in fact sent him the Masterkey, betraying the Division. Aidan, revealed to have been shot in non-lethal areas, reunites with Rachel, and the two fight their way through the facility. Ritter interrupts the transmission of the Masterkey to Alfie, but is fatally shot after Rachel's cat scratches out his eyes. Alfie and Rachel escape to outside the Division facility, revealed to be a ship, to use the satellite connection to send the Masterkey. Ruth uses a mental trigger code to force her "daughter" to attack Aidan until Ruth is killed by Keira, a former CIA agent. Keira had once been Rachel and Aidan's sister-in-arms, and was thought dead during a mission with Rachel; these events, along with Keira as an identical fictional version of herself, had also appeared in Elly's novels. Alfie finally receives the Masterkey transmission and Aidan detonates the Division's oil tanker headquarters. Resuming her novelist persona, Rachel publishes her final Argylle novel, where at a reading, the real Argylle reveals himself, much to her shock and confusion. In a mid-credits scene, taking place twenty years earlier, a young Argylle is revealed to be a Kingsman agent, with the first novel being based on his life.
Cast[]
- Henry Cavill as Aubrey Argylle
- Louis Partridge as young Argylle
- Dua Lipa as LaGrange
- Ariana DeBose as Keira
- Richard E. Grant as Fowler
- John Cena as Wyatt
- Bryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway/Rachel Kylle
- Tomás Paredes as Carlos
- Alaa Habib as Zoe the Superfan
- Chip as Alfie
- Jing Lusi as Li Na
- Catherine O'Hara as Ruth Conway/Dr. Margaret Vogler
- Sam Rockwell as Aidan Wylde
- Bryan Cranston as Barry Conway/Ritter
- Adetomiwa Edun as Deputy Nolan
- Rob Delaney as Deputy Director Powell
- Stanley Morgan as Bakunin
- Samuel L. Jackson as Alfred "Alfie" Solomon
- David Bedella as Leonard
- Sofia Boutella as Saba Al-Badr
- Ben Daniels as The King's Man Arms Bartender
Production[]
The film was shot in the U.K., Greece and United States.
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