Halle Berry In Talks For ‘Kingsman 2’
By Angie Han/March 11, 2016 6:00 am EST
Based on the comic book series by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar, the Kingsman movies center on a super-elite, super-secret, super-British spy organization. The first film, which saw Eggsy competing to join the group under the mentorship of Harry Hart (Firth), was a surprise hit, grossing $414 million worldwide last year on a budget of $81 million and earning very strong reviews besides. No plot details have been revealed about the sequel, although Vaughn has previously hinted that it could open up the American counterpart to Kingsman.
Berry’s no stranger to the super-spy genre, as she played foxy NSA agent Jinx Johnson in the Pierce Brosnan-era Bond film Die Another Day. The deal would also continue her relationship with Fox, where she’s appeared in four X-Men movies. Berry is coming off of the CBS sci-fi series Extant, which was cancelled last year after two seasons, and will next be seen in the Luis Prieto-directed thriller Kidnap, out May 13. In other words, it’s been a while since Berry had a good, solid hit (unless you count X-Men: Days of Future Past, I suppose, in which she had a pretty minor role). Kingsman 2 sounds like just the thing to kick her career into high gear again.
Kingsman 2 opens June 16, 2017.
