Matthew Vaughn bored of serious spy flicks

Matthew Vaughn is bringing back an old school feel to spy movies.

The British director and screenwriter was at the helm of current sleuth flick Kingsman: The Secret Service, starring Colin Firth.

Having always loved the genre, the 43-year-old felt it was time to bring things back around to how he remembered them after the James Bond and Bourne franchises moved spy films in a different direction.

"Simply put, we were lamenting about why the spy films have become so serious," he told Superherohype.com, referring to regular collaborator and comic book writer Mark Millar who worked on Kingsman with him. "I mean, we liked Bond and Bourne, but they weren’t how we remembered. The spy movies we fell in love with weren’t being totally represented anymore, shall we say, in the cinema."

Matthew believes the style of these films has changed in the last decade. But he thinks there is a way for a movie to have elements of comedy while still maintaining seriousness, like the ones in the 1960s and 70s.

"They were serious films that didn’t take themselves seriously, is the best way to describe them in my mind. They were proper movies. They weren’t Austin Powers, you know'" he mused. "I mean, the easiest way of describing it, you’ve got Bond movies, with Roger Moore and Sean Connery, and then you have Casino Royale with David Niven, Woody Allen and God knows who else is in it, you know'"

Matthew feels this shows the difference between spoof spy movies; that you can have serious ones with a sense of fun or all out comedy versions.

"Even Get Smart, they were comedic. You can have fun without being silly I think," he concluded. "I wouldn’t describe Kingsman as silly, but I would describe it as fun.