Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond(bornMatthew Allard Robert Vaughn;7 March 1971), known professionally asMatthew Vaughn,is an English filmmaker.[1]He has produced films includingLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels(1998) andSnatch(2000), and directedLayer Cake(2004),Stardust(2007),Kick-Ass(2010),X-Men: First Class(2011), andArgylle(2024). Vaughn also co-created theKingsmancomic book seriesandresulting franchise,directing, producing and co-writing the filmsKingsman: The Secret Service(2014),Kingsman: The Golden Circle(2017), andThe King's Man(2021).
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| Born | Matthew Allard Robert Vaughn 7 March 1971 Paddington,London, England |
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| Children | 3 |
Early life
editVaughn was born in Paddington, London, England.[2][3]Until 2002, he had thought that he was the child of a relationship between his mother, Kathy Ceaton (died 20 July 2013), and American actorRobert Vaughn.[4]A paternity investigation[3]in the 1980s revealed that Robert Vaughn was not his father, but Ceaton had never revealed otherwise to Vaughn. Upon asking his mother about his true paternity, she revealed that his father was George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond,[4][5]an English banker. Early in Vaughn's life, before the paternity investigation, Robert Vaughn had asked for the child's surname to be Vaughn, and it continues as Vaughn's professional name, though he uses de Vere Drummond in his personal life,[4]having changed it bydeed pollin May 2002.[6]
Vaughn was educated atSussex House Schoolin London and thenStowe SchoolinBuckingham.Taking a gap year between Stowe and university, he travelled around the world on aHard Rock Cafetour. After arriving in Los Angeles he began working as an assistant to a film director. He later returned to London, and attendedUniversity College Londonstudyinganthropologyandancient history.He dropped out after a few weeks.
Career
editAged 25, Vaughn produced a low-budget thriller,The Innocent Sleep(1996), starringAnnabella SciorraandMichael Gambon.[7]He continued as a producer on close friendGuy Ritchie's filmLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.The film was a critical, popular and financial success, earning Vaughn and Ritchie £9 million each. Vaughn would later produce Ritchie'sSnatchandSwept Away.
Vaughn made his directorial debut in 2004 withLayer Cake.The film was well received and its success led to Vaughn being tapped to directX-Men: The Last Stand(2006), but he dropped out only two weeks before filming began. Subsequently, he said the film was "pretty good" given the limited time they had to make it,[8]but he was critical ofBrett Ratner's direction of the film.[9]For his next project he co-wrote and directedStardust,followed by amovie adaptationofMark Millar'sKick-Assin 2010. Vaughn directed and co-wrote the first film in the prequel trilogy of theX-Menfilm universetitled,X-Men: First Class(2011).[10]Vaughn was signed to return to the series as director of the sequel,X-Men: Days of Future Past(2014), but dropped out in favour ofBryan Singerwho had directed the first two films in the original trilogy,X-MenandX2: X-Men United.Vaughn remained attached to the film by co-writing the script.[11]
Vaughn's next directorial project, wasKingsman: The Secret Service(2014), an adaptation of the comic bookThe Secret Servicecreated byMark MillarandDave Gibbonsfrom a concept by Millar and an initially uncredited Vaughn himself (Vaughn being credited as the comic's co-creator on all republications since 2014).[12]The film was scripted by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, and produced by Vaughn's production company Marv Films.[13][14][15][16][17][18]Vaughn returned to direct, produce, and co-write theKingsmansequel,Kingsman: The Golden Circle,which was released in theaters in September 2017. Vaughn also directed and provided the story forThe King's Man,the third installment in the franchise serving as a prequel to the original film. Delayed from November 2019 due to both the schedule shuffle followingDisney's acquisition of 21st Century Foxand the subsequentCOVID-19 pandemic,the film was released on 22 December 2021.
In March 2017,Colliderreported that Vaughn was top choice to directMan of Steel 2;[19]in September of that year, Vaughn confirmed that he was in negotiations with the studio to helm the project.[20]By March 2019, Vaughn stated that discussions with Warner Bros. had ended, and he was no longer involved with development of the film.[21]
Vaughn began working on spy filmArgyllein 2021, an original story written byJason Fuchsand starring anensemble castincludingHenry Cavill,Sam Rockwell,Bryce Dallas Howard,Samuel L. Jackson,Bryan CranstonandJohn Cena.[22] The film premiered in January 2024, and was released byUniversal PicturesandApple Original Films.[23]
In January 2024, Vaughn announced that he would be producing a thirdKick-Assfilm, titledStuntnuts Does School Fight,directed by his longtime stunt coordinatorDamien Waltersin his feature film debut, which had secretly already been greenlit and had completed filming.[24]also announcing two further films in theHit-Girl & Kick-Assfranchise to be in development, to be produced by him as a trilogy, under the working titlesVramandKick-Ass.[24]
Personal life
editOn 25 May 2002, Vaughn married German supermodelClaudia Schifferin Suffolk.[25]The couple have a son and two daughters, the youngest born in 2010.[26][27]They have homes inNotting Hill,London,NorthamptonshireandColdham Hall,Stanningfield,Suffolk.[28]
Filmography
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edit| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Writer |
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| 2004 | Layer Cake | Yes | Yes | No |
| 2007 | Stardust | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2010 | Kick-Ass | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Debt | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2011 | X-Men: First Class | Yes | No | Yes |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | No | Yes | Story |
| Kingsman: The Secret Service | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2017 | Kingsman: The Golden Circle | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2021 | The King's Man | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2024 | Argylle | Yes | Yes | No |
Producer only
- The Innocent Sleep(1996)
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels(1998)
- Snatch(2000)
- Mean Machine(2001)
- Swept Away(2002)
- A Short Film About John Bolton(2003)
- Harry Brown(2009)
- Kick-Ass 2(2013)
- Fantastic Four(2015)
- Eddie the Eagle(2016)
- Rocketman(2019)
- Bloodshot(2020) (Executive producer)
- Silent Night(2021)
- Tetris(2023)
- Stuntnuts: The Movie(TBA)
- Stuntnuts Does School Fight(TBA)
Television
editExecutive producer
- Lock, Stock...(2000)
- Swag(2003)
- Make My Day(2003) (Documentary)
Video game
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- Kick-Ass: The Game(2010)
Frequent collaborators
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References
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- ^Phegley, Kiel (10 January 2012)."Millarworld Exclusive: Inside"The Secret Service"".Comic Book Resources.Archived fromthe originalon 12 January 2012.Retrieved12 January2012.
Mark Millar:"This education of a 21st Century super-spy forms the structure of the story. I can't give too much away becauseMatthew Vaughnand I co-conceived the thing withDave [Gibbons],and Vaughn is literally right now writing the screenplay of the movie, so we're on anon-disclosureagreement for a little while yet. But basically, if I had to say anything else about it, I would say that this is our version ofS.H.I.E.L.D.orU.N.C.L.E.or any of those brilliant super-spy concepts, but seen through that skewed perspective we brought to superheroes in'Kick-Ass.' It feels very, very fresh. I don't think there's ever been a comic like this and all three of us are very excited about it. I've wanted to work with Dave since I was sixteen [so] it had to be something big. "
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- ^Han, Karen (30 May 2019)."Rocketman producer Matthew Vaughn explains what his Man of Steel 2 may have looked like".Polygon.Archivedfrom the original on 30 May 2019.Retrieved1 June2019.
- ^Wiseman, Andreas (8 July 2021)."Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Dua Lipa, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cena, Catherine O'Hara Set For New Matthew Vaughn Spy Franchise 'Argylle'".Deadline Hollywood.Archivedfrom the original on 9 July 2021.Retrieved14 December2021.
- ^Kroll, Justin; Fleming, Mike Jr. (4 August 2021)."Apple Lands Matthew Vaughn's Star-Studded Spy Film 'Argylle' In Massive Package Deal".Deadline Hollywood.Archivedfrom the original on 4 August 2021.Retrieved14 December2021.
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- ^Michaud, Sarah (15 January 2010)."Claudia Schiffer Expecting Third Child".People.Archived fromthe originalon 2 February 2014.Retrieved5 August2013.
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- ^"Celebrity couple's love for Suffolk".East Anglian Daily Times.Retrieved17 March2011.
External links
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- Matthew VaughnatIMDb
- Interview,Superherohype; accessed 28 February 2015