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By Savannah Walsh
“Once you know the secret, don’t let the cat get out of the bag. “That’s the motto of Argylle, an upcoming spy mystery film starring Dua Lipa as a femme fatale and Henry Cavill as a speeding detective. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, the film opens on February 2. And this phrase also serves as a thesis for those who speculate that Taylor Swift is the mastermind, the mysterious source of this film. (Spoiler alert: it’s not. But we’ll come back to that. )
The film, written by Jason Fuchs (Wonder Woman), is based on a previously unpublished novel by writer Elly Conway. Conway is also the main character in the film, played by Bryce Dallas Howard. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Vaughn explained Argylle’s vanity, a tale within a tale: Howard’s Conway, he said, is “the J. K. Rowling of spy books. ” She is agoraphobic. Her concept of a hot date is to stay at home, write the rest of her book, with her cat for company. She’s not a victim because she’s successful, she’s funny and smart, but she has problems. In the overall film, the characters of Cavill and Lipa are not “real”: they are fictional creations taken from Conway’s new cinematic novel.
The funny thing about all of this is that there doesn’t seem to be a “real” Elly Conway either. There are no photographs of Conway on the Internet, and the author’s biography on Penguin Random House’s website is strangely brief: “Elly Conway was born and raised in upstate New York. She wrote her first novel about Agent Argylle while working as a waitress at a late-night restaurant. X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram involve verified profiles in this call involving a handful of posts. , but there’s no way to validate who posts from any of the accounts.
The Hollywood Reporter noted in September 2022 that Apple had paid $200 million for the rights to Argylle: A Novel, which will be published in January, a staggering value for a new author. The e-book or contact with Conway’s representatives failed. A search for his name yielded links to a fictional character from the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours; This character made her first screen appearance on December 13, which is also Swift’s birthday.
Details like why Swifties began theorizing that her favorite pop star actually wrote Argylle under a pseudonym. On Oct. 22, TikTok users like Jessica Lynn Slocum and Chloe (@chloeandpercy) began defending Swift: Bryce Dallas Howard bears a resemblance, they said. , with red-haired writer Swift as he plays at the end of All Too Well: The Short Film. Swift also has a documented love for diamond clothing, which has made its way into her official product. The film’s marketing featured a Scottish cat named Chip; Swift has 3 felines of this breed: Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button. And in the film’s trailer, Elly Conway is dressed in a cat carrier backpack very similar to Swift’s from the Netflix documentary Miss Americana.
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While there is no genuine evidence that Swift wrote the novel, some enthusiasts have been emboldened by her habit of leaving Easter eggs and even a pseudonym in the past. Prior to their split earlier this year, actor Joe Alwyn co-wrote some tracks for Swift’s novel. Folklore under the so-called “William Bowery”; William is his great-grandfather’s songwriter call, and it was on the Bowery that Swift and Alwyn spent a lot of time early in their relationship. Swift herself used Nils Sjoberg to write Rihanna’s hit “This is What You Came For” with her. then boyfriend, Calvin Harris.
Unfortunately, we have bad news for those detectives: Vanity Fair’s resources verify that Swift is not, in fact, the writer of the book. Anyway, Argylle’s official Twitter page took note of the hypothesis and made the decision to take a look at it via Twitter. Vanity Fair has reached out to Universal Pictures for comment.
This story has been updated.
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