Fox Moves ‘Kingsman: The Great Game’ and ‘Ford V. Ferrari’
Fox have just revealed that they’ll be shifting some of their last big pre-Disney acquisition movies away from their initial dates, in addition to setting a date for a new project altogether.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has decided to take one 2019 movie out of the year and into 2020. That film is director Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Great Game, a prequel to the previous two films based on Mark Millar’s comic book love letter to spy fiction, and it will now open on February 14, 2020 instead. The reasoning behind the delay is that production started this year, and the people working on the film wanted a few extra months in post-production to make sure that the visual effects are up to snuff, so the film was pushed away from this November. The film stars Robert Aramayo, Gemma Arterton, Daniel Brühl, Charles Dance, Harris Dickinson, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Djimon Hounsou, Rhys Ifans, Neil Jackson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stanley Tucci, and Alison Steadman.
Meanwhile, Logan director James Mangold’s Ford v. Ferrari will take Kingsman‘s original release date of November 15, 2019. As the name suggests, the movie will focus on the true story of the rivalry between car manufacturers Ferrari N.V. and the Ford Motor Company as the latter company seeks to build a car that can beat the former company’s at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race. This move puts Fox’s film right in the middle of awards season, which is a more advantageous place for the movie than it was for the Kingsman prequel. The film stars Christian Bale, Matt Damon,Caitriona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Remo Girone, J. J. Feild, Gian Franco Tordi, Noah Jupe, Josh Lucas, Tracy Letts, Jack McMullen, Benjamin Rigby, Joe Williamson, Alex Gurney, and Corrado Invernizzi.
Lastly, a new project has been added to the Fox slate: Free Guy, which is set to target a July 3, 2020 release date. Starring Ryan Reynolds, this action-comedy revolves around a background character in a video game discovering the nature of his world, and he teams up with an avatar representing the game’s player to prevent his game from being shut down. Reynolds and Shawn Levy will produce.
Grant Davis is a freelance writer who has covered entertainment news for more than seven years. His articles have frequently appeared in Star Wars News Net as well as as other entertainment-related websites. As someone who grew up on Star Wars and comic book movies, he’s completely thrilled with the current era of genre entertainment.
