The trailer for the H๏τly-anticipated film Argylle was released on Thursday.
It is the first look fans have of seeing blonde Dua Lipa alongside a star-studded cast for the Apple Original and Universal Pictures film by Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn, set for release on February 2, 2024.
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The singer, 28, dazzles in a gold minidress as she takes on the role of Henry Cavill’s love interest in what is her acting debut.
The trailer kicks off with Dua playing the ultimate female fatale as she seductively tells him: ‘I certainly hope you dance as well as you dress’.
To which he says: ‘You’re about to find out’ before sweeping her off her feet.
Both Henry, 40, and Dua, who had a small role in Barbie, play characters out of novelist Elly Conway’s (Bryce Dallas Howard) book.
The actor takes on the role of Agent Argylle, while Dua plays another spy.
The plot follows the introverted spy novelist drawn into the real world of espionage when the plots of her books get a little too close to the activities of a sinister underground syndicate.
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When Aiden (Sam Rockwell), a spy, shows up to save her from being kidnapped, Elly and her beloved cat Alfie are plunged into a covert world.
The cast also includes Samuel L. Jackson, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, John Cena, Catherine O’Hara, Ariana DeBose and Rob Delaney.
Samuel’s character, who has ties to the underworld through his Burgundy winery, tells Elly: ‘It’s time for you to meet the real agent Argylle.’
The film is described as following, ‘the world’s greatest spy, Argylle,’ who ‘gets caught up in a globe-trotting adventure.’
The film was first announced in June 2021, with Matthew Vaughn directing from a script by Jason Fuchs, adapted from a yet-to-be-published novel by a mysterious writer named Elly Conway.
The writer seemingly hasn’t published a book before, with the Argylle novel’s publication originally set for September 29, 2022 and then pushed to March 29, 2023 and now apparently set for November 9, 2023.
Apple announced in August 2021 they had acquired the rights to the film for a whopping $200 million, with Vaughn offering his thoughts on the unpublished manuscript in the announcement.
‘When I read this early draft manuscript I felt it was the most incredible and original spy franchise since Ian Fleming’s books of the ‘50s,’ Vaughan said.
The director added, ‘This is going to reinvent the spy genre,’ though very little about the actual author is known.
