As theaters slowly reopen in North America with the release of THE NEW MUTANTS and BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC this weekend – followed by TENET next – studios are cautiously testing the box office waters. But, while some tentpoles are holding firm to their 2020 release dates, others are packing up and moving to a potentially safer window next year.
Matthew Vaughn's THE KING'S MAN is the latest movie to succumb to COVID-19 concerns, and so Disney has moved the Kingsman prequel from its original date of September 18, 2020, to February 26, 2021.
Smoke on the street says that Disney is pumped for the release of THE KING'S MAN, they're not game to release it when theaters in key markets like Los Angeles and New York are still shuttered. They're also not interested in releasing the film on Disney+ at this time. That said if MULAN ends up doing big money for the House of Mouse next month, perhaps plans will change.
Directed and co-written by Matthew Vaughn with Karl Gajdusek, THE KING'S MAN is set in the early years of the 20th century, when the Kingsman agency is formed to stand against a cabal plotting a war to wipe out millions. Led by Ralph Finnes as the Duke of Oxford, the action-adventure prequel also stars Gemma Arterton as Polly; Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Lee Unwin; Matthew Goode as Captain Morton; Daniel Brühl as Erik Jan Hanussen; Djimon Hounsou as Shola; Charles Dance as General Kitchener; Rhys Ifans as Rasputin, and Stanley Tucci.
THE KING'S MAN will now charge headlong into theaters on February 26, 2021.