Trivia / The King's Man

• Acting for Two: Tom Hollander played King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II. All three men were cousins, and George V and Nicholas II were noted for their striking resemblance◊ and even played with this on occasion. In fact, Hollander is credited as "Tom Hollander³" in acknowledgement of his multiple roles.
• All-Star Cast: This one is pretty star-studded with Ralph Fiennes, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, Rhys Ifans, Gemma Arterton, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Djimon Hounsou, Stanley Tucci and Alexandra Maria Lara.
• Box Office Bomb: With the COVID-19 Pandemic, underwhelming reviews and Spider-Man: No Way Home to hinder its box office performance, the film was a far cry from the $400+ million earned by each of the first two Kingsman movies with $125.7 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.
• Contractual Obligation Project: Since the movie was already filmed when Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, the larger company had to honor their new subsidiary's release schedule and release it theatrically.
• Fake Nationality:
  • The English Tom Hollander portrays the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
  • The German-Spanish Daniel Brühl portrays Austrian-Jewish Erik Jan Hanussen.
  • Austrian Valerie Pachner portrays Dutch Mata Hari.
• Fake Russian:
  • The Welsh Rhys Ifans as Grigori Rasputin.
  • The German August Diehl as Vladimir Lenin.
• Fake Scot:
  • The English Matthew Goode portrays the Scottish Shepherd who fakes a English accent for his cover identity as Captain Morton.
  • The English Aaron Taylor-Johnson portrays Archie Reid.
• Foiler Footage: Conrad's grave is shown in the trailers, but his name on his grave marker is altered.
• Production Posse: Aaron Taylor-Johnson comes back to work with Matthew Vaughn again after Kick-Ass.
• Release Date Change: No less than eight times, making the picture even unluckier than fellow Fox production The New Mutants in that department. First set to be released on November 9, 2019, then was moved to February 14, 2020. However, just a few months before its release, it was moved again by Disney, to September 18, 2020. With the COVID-19 Pandemic occurring in the interim between the two release dates, it was pushed back yet again to February 26th, 2021, followed by a fifth release date of February 12th, a sixth release date of March 12th, a seventh of August 20, and an eighth on December 22, which stuck. Disney was contractually obligated to release it theatrically, hence why it wasn't possible to simply release it on video-on-demand or a streaming service. However, it would end up arriving on both HBO Max and Hulu less than two months after its theatrical release.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The film (which was completed in mid-2019) was released two years and one month after its initial release date.
• Underage Casting: Valarie Pachner as Mata Hari who would have been 40-41 during most of the events of the film. Pachner was the better part of a decade younger at 32-33 during production
• What Could Have Been: Nicolas Cage, Brad Pitt and Rachel Weisz were considered for roles in the film.
• Working Title: The film was first known as Kingsman: The Great Game before being titled The King's Man.

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