Bustle: "What Will 'Man From U.N.C.L.E. 2' Be About?"

- November 30, 2015

by Katherine Cosumano
Entertainment/Bustle

If there were any doubts going into The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as to whether the studio powers that be planned for a sequel, they've likely been dispelled with the film's release. Without giving much of anything away, Alicia Vikander, Armie Hammer, and Henry Cavill will undoubtedly return as a new super spy group codenamed U.N.C.L.E. At the end of the film (spoilers ahead!) Waverly (Hugh Grant), the British secret service agent who is also Vikander's handler, declares that the group, having successfully completed their mission to disarm a nuclear device in the hands of Italian neo-Nazis, has but an hour to pack their bags and head to Istanbul for their next mission. So it's easy to imagine that continuing in a follow-up — but otherwise, what will happen in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 2?

At the end of the movie, Wavery tells the group that they have a new codename, and "it's quite a good one — U.N.C.L.E." The new film is something of a prequel to the '60s television series, providing origin stories for its characters and explaining how an American and a Soviet on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain came to be on the same team. It also introduces Vikander as Gaby, a character who doesn't feature in the original series, as a sort of third agent (untrained as she may be — the daughter of an astrophysicist and a mechanic by trade, she proves her worth as a spy in the first 10 minutes of the film).

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