However, upon returning, he is mistaken for a German spy and executed at gunpoint, devastating Orlando. Disguised as Archie, a member of the Black Watch, Conrad volunteers for a mission into No-Man's Land to retrieve information from a British agent wounded there. Conrad, determined to fight in the war, swaps places with a soldier named Archie Reid, giving him the nickname "Lancelot" to send his father a message. Orlando meets with King George V, who summons Conrad back to Britain. Now of age, Conrad is commissioned into the Grenadier Guards against his father's wishes. The Shepherd recruits Vladimir Lenin and orders his Bolsheviks to overthrow the Tsar and remove Russia from the war, sending an assassin to kill the Romanovs. Although the message is intercepted by British intelligence and deciphered by Polly, President Woodrow Wilson refuses to join the war, citing a lack of concrete proof. Later that night, after celebrating his 19th birthday, Conrad expresses his determination to join the army, much to Orlando's dismay.Īt the Shepherd's orders, Erik Jan Hanussen, an adviser to Kaiser Wilhelm II, sends the Zimmermann Telegram, hoping to distract Britain and the United States. After a grueling close fight, Orlando, Shola, Conrad, and Polly successfully kill Rasputin during a Christmas party hosted by Prince Yusupov. Word of Kitchener's death reaches Orlando, spurring him to head to Russia with Shola, Polly, and Conrad to deal with Rasputin once and for all.
Their ship is torpedoed by a submarine and sunk. Knowing the Western Front will be left vulnerable if Russia leaves the war, Conrad delivers this information to Kitchener and his aide-de-camp Major Max Morton, who set sail for Russia. Conrad is notified of Rasputin's manipulation by his cousin, Prince Felix Yusupov. On the Shepherd's orders, Rasputin poisons Tsar Nicholas's young son Alexei, only to cure him when Nicholas promises to stay out of the war. The Flock, led by "The Shepherd" from an isolated clifftop headquarters, has their own network of agents, including Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, trusted adviser to Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Orlando, relying on information from other dignitaries' socially invisible servants, learns that Princip was part of "The Flock": a group plotting to pit the German, Russian, and British empires against each other. Later, however, Princip happens to run into the Archduke's entourage again, this time succeeding in fatally shooting the Archduke and his wife Sophie. Conrad saves the Archduke from a bomb thrown by Gavrilo Princip, a rebel intent on sparking a war.
Conrad, eager to fight, is forbidden to join up by the protective Orlando, who persuades Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, not to let him join the army.Īt the behest of Kitchener, Conrad and Orlando ride with Orlando's friend Archduke Franz Ferdinand through Sarajevo. Twelve years later, Orlando has recruited two of his servants, Shola and Polly, into his spy network dedicated to protecting the United Kingdom and the British Empire from the approaching Great War. Before she dies, Emily makes Orlando promise never to let their son see the war again. Emily is mortally wounded during a Boer sniper attack on the camp.
In 1902, British aristocrat Orlando, Duke of Oxford, his wife Emily, and their young son Conrad visit a concentration camp in South Africa during the Second Boer War while working for the Red Cross. It received mixed reviews from critics, grossing $125 million against nearly a $100 million budget. It was released in the United States on December 22, 2021, and in the United Kingdom on Decemby 20th Century Studios, delayed several times from an original November 2019 release date, partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on several events during World War I and the birth of the Kingsman organization. Its ensemble cast includes Ralph Fiennes (also one of its executive producers), Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, and Charles Dance. The third installment in the British Kingsman film series, which is based on the comic book The Secret Service (later retitled to Kingsman) by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, it is a prequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). The King's Man is a 2021 spy action film directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Vaughn and Karl Gajdusek and a story by Vaughn.
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