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10 Movies You Never Would Have Guessed Were Based Off Comic Books

Comic book movies are enjoying an all-time high right now, with at least eight of 2016’s biggest releases being based on the medium (we’ll let you work out what they are).
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Published: Feb 12, 2016 01:00 pm

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9) Kingsman: The Secret Service

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One of the most surprising movie hits from last year was Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, which turned out to be a brilliant subversion of spy movies and made an unexpectedly great action star out of Colin Firth.

It might have passed you by then that it is actually based on a comic book. The Secret Service was a six-issue limited series from Icon Comics, an imprint of Marvel for creator-owned titles. It was written by Mark Millar – who you probably know from his work on Civil War and Kick-Ass.

The film was already a fairly loose adaptation of the source material but will carve out its own path entirely for the upcoming sequel expected in 2017.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'
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