Argylle director responds to rumours Taylor Swift secretly wrote film

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Argylle director Matthew Vaughn has denied that Taylor Swift is the mysterious creator whose e book impressed his new spy thriller.

The forthcoming Apple TV+ film, which stars Henry Cavill because the titular spy, is predicated on a manuscript written by pseudonymous creator “Elly Conway”. Elly Conway can also be the title of the film’s protagonist, performed by Bryce Dallas Howard.

The film rights to the manuscript have been apparently purchased in a $200 million deal earlier than it was tailored by screenwriter Jason Fuchs.

Because of the thriller surrounding Conway’s actual identification, many Taylor Swift followers on-line turned satisfied that the singer had written the e book. They pointed to clues together with Swift’s penchant for argyle sweaters, and the film’s inclusion of a Scottish Fold cat. Swift owns two Scottish Folds named Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson.

However, in a brand new interview with Rolling Stone, Kingsman and Kick Ass director Vaughn shot the hearsay down.

“I’m not a big internet guy, and it was actually my daughter who came up to me – this is the power of celebrity and the internet – and said, ‘You never told me Taylor wrote the book!’” stated Vaughn. “And I’m looking at her going, ‘What are you talking about Taylor Swift wrote the book? She didn’t write the book!’ And I was laughing because I was like, ‘It’s not true! She didn’t write the book!’ But my daughter was convinced of it.”

“There is a real book… and it’s a really good book,” he continued. “And there is an Elly Conway who wrote the book, but it’s not Taylor Swift. And I say that because I imagine Taylor Swift has a load of people trying to jump on her bandwagon left, right, and center, and I don’t want to be a part of that club. I did read the conspiracies and I was like, wow, they don’t leave a stone unturned! But it’s not Taylor Swift. She definitely didn’t write the book.”

Vaughn did admit that Swift had unintentionally impressed the film’s feline star. The cat featured in Argylle is Vaughn’s personal cat, which his supermodel spouse Claudia Schiffer was satisfied to welcome into their household by their daughters after watching Swift’s documentary Miss Americana.

“Ironically, what she is responsible for is the Scottish Fold,” stated Vaughn. “I got home one day, it was Christmas, and I was like, ‘What the f*** is that noise?’ And I’m running around the house and I hear a noise, and the kids had seen a Taylor Swift documentary and there was a Scottish Fold in that, and they’d persuaded my wife, Claudia, to get them the kitten for Christmas. It was bought without my permission and hidden from me.”

Vaughn’s new film additionally stars Sam Rockwell, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Dua Lipa, and Catherine O’Hara.

Argylle will arrive in cinemas on 2 February.