The original pilot was fleshed out into the feature To Trap a Spy with scenes later used for the episode "The Four-Steps Affair" (S01E21).
It wasn't until later that it was revealed that the executives had mean Kuryakin, but by then it was too late. Norman Felton thought this mean Will Kukuva, who played Mr. The executives had specified someone who's name had started with the letter K. That McCallum was able to stay on the show at all was a happy accident, as NBC executives had called for him to be replaced after viewing the original pilot. The name of the antagonists also went through several revisions before settling on THRUSH, an acronym that was never officially defined during the run of the series.Īs both titles suggested, the show was about one agent, Napoleon Solo, played by Robert Vaughn, but fans responded well to Solo's fellow UNCLE agent Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum, and they became a duo, although early episodes still used Kuryakin sparingly, if at all. In the ensuing legal settlement, the title was changed, but the character name stayed, with the title changed to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Created with the help of Ian Fleming and envisioned as a television version of James Bond, the original title was to be Ian Fleming's Solo but this was soon halted by legal action by James Bond producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, who objected to the use of Fleming's name in the title and the name Napoleon Solo, as "Solo" had been a minor character in Goldfinger. I'll think, 'Oh, I really enjoyed that.' 'U.N.C.L.E.' is one of those movies.The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I sit there, I watch it, I can pick it up at any point, and it just jollies on. "I felt pretty confident about that film. However, as far as Guy Ritchie is concerned, he once explained in 2017 that he is content to look back on making The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
In the meantime, Ritchie has taken a stab at kickstarting a new franchise about King Arthur, Cavill has gone from being Superman to a Witcher, while Hammer and Vikander have starred in a number of critically acclaimed hits.īecause the first movie was released half a decade ago and underperformed at the box-office, it is unlikely we will be getting a sequel anytime soon. Unfortunately, despite the end of the film clearly being a setup for the start of a franchise, no fresh sequel has been forthcoming in the past five years. The movie got enough things right to amass a global fan following in the years since its release. Together, the three ridiculously pretty people embark on a journey to ridiculously pretty locations, wearing ridiculously pretty clothes while engaging in blockbuster spycraft and an unexpected twist or two. The duo was also joined by Alicia Vikander in a small but important role. was elevated by Guy Ritchie's trademark stylish filmmaking and the two charismatic leads in Cavill and Hammer. The formulaic story of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. At the height of the Cold War, the two must learn to put their differences aside in order to track down an arms dealer looking to supply Nazis with nuclear weaponry. told the story of CIA agent Napoleon Solo, played by Henry Cavill, and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin, played by Armie Hammer. I get people being like, 'Are you going to do a sequel?' The answer is, 'I hope so! I'd love to.' At one point, Lionel Wigram, who was the producer and also who wrote the original script, he and I talked about ideas and he told me an idea that he had for it, and I was like, 'That sounds great! Whatever your idea, let's just do it!' I don't know, man.
"Trust me, if someone was like, 'Hey, do you want to do a sequel?' I would be like, 'Hell yeah, let's go!'. In an interview with CinemaBlend, Hammer expressed his love for the movie, and his eagerness to make a sequel: was not a big hit commercially but garnered a cult following in the following years. Starring Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill as suave secret agents, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The success of the stylish spy-thriller Kingsman: The Secret Service when it came out in 2015 cast an unfortunate shadow over The Man from U.N.C.L.E., filmmaker Guy Ritchie's own take on the stylish spy-thriller genre based on the 1964 television series of the same name.