Jeff Bridges to join 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle'

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By Darian Scalamoni

   The first three months of the year are usually a dumping ground for studios and their feature films but last February, 20^th Century Fox released Kingsman: The Secret Service which was a massive success. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise though as the movie was based on a comic book of the same name. Due to the $414 million gross in the box office, the studio had ordered a sequel turning Kingsman into a franchise, and the cast is rapidly growing.

According to Deadline, Jeff Bridges has signed on to Kingsman: The Golden Circle. No character details have surfaced thus far but the addition of “The Dude” is certainly a welcomed one. Bridges hasn’t appeared in a movie since the epic failure of The Seventh Son back in 2014. He also recently signed on to the untitled firefighter film also starring Josh Brolin, Miles Teller and Taylor Kitsch. 

            Bridges joins an already electric cast featuring Channing Tatum, Halle Berry, Julianne Moore, Elton John and the returning Taron Egerton and Mark Strong. The plot of the movie is as follows; Superspy Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton) and his supervisor (Mark Strong) head to the US to join forces with the “Statesman”, the Kingsman agency in America after the destruction of Kingsman HQ at the hands of the evil Poppy (Julianne Moore).

            The film is due to hit theaters June 16^th, 2017.