The second installment of the Kingsman movie franchise isn�t set to hit theaters until June 16, 2017, but we have learned that Sir Elton John will have a role in it. Yesterday (May 16), the singer confirmed that he will be appearing in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
�It�s been a long time since Tommie�.. #Kingsman,� he wrote in an Instagram post, referring to the 1975 film adaptation of the Who�s rock opera, in which he played the Pinball Wizard, with his cover of �Pinball Wizard� reaching No. 7 in England. He�s also played himself in the Spice Girls� 1997 movie Spice World, and won a Best Original Song Oscar for �Can You Feel the Love Tonight� from The Lion King.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle director Matthew Vaughan had hoped to get John into the first film, 2015�s Kingsman: The Secret Service, but he wound up cutting the scenes he had written for the singer. �I was umming and ahhing �cause it had a whole fun subplot about celebrities being kidnapped,� he said. �And I had an idea of, who�s the worst celebrity you�d want to have locked in a cell? And I came up with Elton John. Having Elton John throwing these huge tantrums. And then I wanted to do an action scene of Elton John kicking the living daylights out of people.�
Tauros Egerton, Mark Strong and Colin Firth are reprising their roles as, respectively, Gary �Eggsy� Unwin, Marlin and Harry Heart in the spy comedy. Julianne Moore and Channing Tatum also signed on to the project.