Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons created Icon Comics miniseries, which is the inspiration for Matthew Vaughn’s big screen version, Kingsman: The Secret Service. The film is set to be released February 13 and stars Academy Award winners Colin Firth and Michael Caine opposite Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson. The first line in the miniseries is “Is Mark Hamill your real name?” who has a role in the film.
Hamill spoke to a crowd assembled at Los Angeles’ Century City AMC Theater. ComingSoon posted a story about Hamill’s discussion of the film and Star Wars. Hamill said that he plays a professor in what is a “glorified cameo.” Here are some highlights:
On Millar’s comic book:
“I was a fan of his writing,” Hamill said. “I heard he wanted to talk to me about something, so I called him. He told me about the comic he was writing… Part of the plot involved kidnapping iconic science fiction actors, believe it or not. He said, ‘It’s sort of a mash-up.’ The comic is a throwback to the old hyper-stylized super-spy movies, like when Sean Connery was James Bond, contrasted with the sort of dystopian existence that he came from. It goes back and forth between the glamorized, idealized fantasy spy world back to this poor family living in a council house and so forth.”
On his Kingsman role:
“At one point [Mark Millar] said, ‘If we make this into a movie, will you play yourself?’ I thought, ‘Yeah, that sounds fine.’ What happened was, when they wrote the screenplay, that element of kidnapped sci-fi actors went away, but Mark still wanted me to do it. He said, ‘There’s another part we want you to play.’”
On Star Wars:
“The most interesting aspect from my point of view is that [Star Wars] is now in the hands of the generation who were fans,” Hamill said. “…It’s the next generation of filmmakers who were sort of weened on these pictures.”
On security:
“You know, the security on it is just crazy,” he continued. “I’m surprised I can even admit I’m in it! …I like being surprised. It’s a whole different era now. When we made the original films, you had the odd reporter hanging around the studio bribing people to give them stories. Now, I said to them, ‘Do I really have to wear this robe and this hood that covers my entire head to go from the trailer to the soundstage?’ They said, ‘Yeah, there’s drones.’ Seriously! There’s drones flying over the studio trying to get pictures of whatever they can get pictures of.”
“We had a little of that on ‘Empire Strikes Back,’” Hamill laughed. “We were up in Finse, Norway and [someone] bribed a couple of emergency helicopter pilots that were looking for a couple that were stranded while skiing to buzz-bomb our set and take pictures. They appeared in the newspaper The Sun. They didn’t get much. They had pictures of snowmobiles and they wrote ‘Strange, alien machinery on the set of ‘Star Wars 2′!’ as they called it. It was crazy! It was just snowmobiles with really identifiable logos on the side.”
Star Wars: Episode 7 director J.J. Abrams is already super secretive with his projects. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is scheduled to be released on December 17.
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Mark Hamill Shares Details On Kingsman: The Secret Service, Star Wars
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