Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a 2017 British-American spy film directed by Matthew Vaughn and based on the comic book The Secret Service, created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar. The screenplay was written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman. It follows the Kingsman agents after an attack leaves them in disarray, leading them to join forces with an American agency known as Statesman to fight a shadowy drug organization known as The Golden Circle.