#Why The King’s Man Director Matthew Vaughn Is Worried About Seeing 1917 [Exclusive]

In fact, according to Vaughn, the two movies even shared the same stunt people, which is a delightful reminder that the film industry really is a small world. As Vaughn said in our interview:

“Well, they took some of my stunt people … so I don’t know, there you go. They were with me in the trenches and I said, ‘Where are you going next?’ ‘Oh, we’re going to do another World War I movie.’ I was like, ‘Ah, really?’ So we shot that before them.”

Despite the nailing down the timeline of who shot what first, Vaughn seems to be a good sport about the two film’s similarities. He even commiserated over how both films had a difficult time building trenches, even with access to all of that luxurious modern equipment:

I know their production designer was trying to figure out how we built the trenches because it was a lot harder to build trenches … I’m like, I don’t know how these soldiers were doing it with a little spade when we had everything and we were finding it hard.