Colin Firth to play MI6 spy in new movie

Colin Firth will be working with X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn and Liam Neeson.

10:30 02 May 2013

It is confirmed that Colin Firth is chosen to play the role of MI6 spy in X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn’s new project. The movie, entitled The Secret Service, is based on a comic book written by Mark Millar.

The Secret Service is a movie about “James Bond superspy who works for MI6 and takes his slacker nephew under his wing”, The Independent reported.

 

A source told The Sun: “Colin will have to brush up on his martial arts and gun technique for this film.

 

“He’ll be starring alongside Liam Neeson, so needs to be on his A-game.

 

“The film is being billed as Kick-Ass meets James Bond – and Colin will start training soon.

 

“He’ll head out to film across Europe at the end of the year.”