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Posted 05.09.12 by Ryan While he has been more wrong than right, we have to give Kick-Ass comic book co-creator Mark Millar credit. At long last, his insistence that Kick-Ass 2 was in the works has turned out to be true.
In February, Millar said a sequel to 2010's Kick-Ass would start shooting this summer, which was hard to take seriously since Millar had made similar comments several times before, starting with the proclamation that the sequel would start production in 2011 for a planned 2012 release (which clearly never happened). However, according to Deadline, Millar is finally right this time, and Kick-Ass 2 is now a reality.
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Posted 09.23.11 by Ryan If there's one person who's been utterly convinced that there will be a sequel to 2010's Kick-Ass, it's Mark Millar, the writer and co-creator of the Kick-Ass comic book and executive producer of the movie adaptation. A month after the movie was released, Millar proclaimed that production would begin in 2011 on a sequel, titled Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall. Millar later revised his statement, saying that Kick-Ass 2 would start in "nine months" after Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn finished with X-Men: First Class.
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Posted 09.22.11 by BrentJS Whether or not there will be a sequel to Kick-Ass seems to depend upon who is being asked the question. Mark Millar, the creator of the comic book on which the movie is based, has been talking about a sequel since the first movie was still in theaters and is still adamant that Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall will get made. Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced and directed the first movie, is far less certain about a sequel, but he's also not ruling it out, saying that it "might" yet happen. But, Kick-Ass screenwriter Jane Goldman has said that she doesn't think it's going to happen at all and is "not entirely sure" that it even needs a sequel.
Assuming that Millar, Vaughn and Goldman can all get on the same page about the sequel, the biggest obstacle seems to be the fact that comic book characters don't age, while the actors who play them do. One of the things that made Kick-Ass so controversial (and awesome) was the fact that the best action scenes starred then-tween actress Chloë Moretz as the pint-size vigilante Hit-Girl, an 11-year-old trained from early childhood by her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), to be a killer. In a recent interview with GTBP, Moretz said that aging Hit-Girl will be a good thing, allowing the character to be shown "in a different light," as a more mature, "Catwoman-y" character, rather than simply as Big Daddy's little soldier.
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Posted 06.09.11 by Ryan Scottish comic book writer and friend to hyperbole Mark Millar has been unwaveringly confident that there will be a sequel to 2010's Kick-Ass, based on the comic book series that Millar co-created. A month after Kick-Ass was released last year, Millar said that the sequel, titled Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, has been "scheduled for production in 2011" and followed by saying last September that the sequel was "nine months away" from production, starting as soon as Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn finished his work on X-Men: First Class.
Kick-Ass screenwriter Jane Goldman, who also wrote First Class with Vaughn, has been less confident about Kick-Ass 2, publicly stating in January that she wasn't currently working on a Kick-Ass 2 script and, in April, revealed that a sequel may not happen at all.
In a video interview with IGN, both Goldman and Millar talk about the possibility of a Kick-Ass sequel, with Goldman maintaining that she and Vaughn are not working on one, while Millar contrasts her statement saying "we knew from day one we were doing a sequel" and that the sequel might require another director since Vaughn is a "Spielberg-y kind of level director."
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Posted 05.26.11 by Ryan Director Matthew Vaughn is no stranger to comic book movie adaptations, having helmed both 2010's Kick-Ass and the upcoming X-Men: First Class. Vaughn recently revealed his ideas for a potential First Class sequel, but what about the sequel to Kick-Ass?
Scottish comic book writer and Kick-Ass co-creator Mark Millar has always been confident that a Kick-Ass sequel would get made, announcing a year ago that production on the sequel would begin in 2011. Millar followed that statement in September, claiming that Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall would start shooting in "nine months," right after First Class opened.
Actor Aaron Johnson quickly disagreed with Millar's confidence, remarking that "they're not going to make one any time soon." In April, Kick-Ass screenwriter Jane Goldman revealed that Kick-Ass 2 was "not in the works," casting doubt that the sequel would ever be made.
In a recent interview with SlashFilm, Vaughn admitted that a Kick-Ass sequel is possible. "We’re still discussing that at the moment," said Vaughn.
it could happen, maybe >> - Posted 01.24.11 by Ryan
Last September, Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar made a bold claim that the sequel to Kick-Ass, the adaptation of the comic book he co-created, would start production "in nine months" coinciding with the end of director Matthew Vaughn's work on the upcoming X-Men: First Class. Kick-Ass actor Aaron Johnson disagreed, countering that he thought the plan for the sequel, titled Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, was to "hold off and wait for that anticipation," while fellow cast members Lyndsy Fonseca and Chloe Moretz also claimed that the sequel was further away than Millar had said.
Kick-Ass screenwriter Jane Goldman is the latest to punch a hole in Millar's claim, responding on her Twitter account about reports that she was currently writing Kick-Ass 2.
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Posted 12.15.10 by BrentJS As December rolls into January, we like to look back at the year's movies — those that inspired us, awed us, or made us groan. Thankfully, YouTube user genrocks has done all of the heavy lifting for our walk down memory lane by putting together this expertly edited and mixed "Filmography 2010" video compilation of 270 of 2010's movies, including clips from Black Swan, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Iron Man 2, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Social Network, Despicable Me, Kick-Ass, Jackass 3D and many, many more great movie moments. Enjoy!
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Posted 09.21.10 by Ryan Earlier this month, comic book writer Mark Millar said a sequel to Kick-Ass will begin in "nine months," after director Matthew Vaughn finished work on his upcoming X-Men: First Class adaptation. Moviefone caught up with Kick-Ass actor Aaron Johnson, who revealed that the wait for the sequel, titled Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, could be a little longer than Millar stated.
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Posted 09.18.10 by Ryan James Gunn is known amongst horror fans for writing the screenplay for 2004's Dawn of the Dead, directing 2006's Slither and stealing producer Brian Grazer's haircut, but this year sees Gunn expand his reputation to the comic book world with Super, which follows Rainn Wilson as a short order cook who decides to become a superhero when his wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him for a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon). The movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, where IFC picked up the distribution rights, ending Gunn's long history with Super, one he explained to SuperHeroHype began in 2003.
This was a script I wrote in 2003. It was gonna be a short film and I just kept writing and it got long, that's all. So I fell in love with the script. It was something I really wanted to tell. I had producers back in 2005, Chuck Roven, who produced The Dark Knight, and I even had backing. I had a lot more money for the movie at that time too from this other company, but we couldn't agree on a lead actor.
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Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar premiered a few panels from the upcoming comic book sequel to Kick-Ass in his new, monthly comic book magazine CLiNT. The comic book picks up right where the last one left off. Millar described the plot of the sequel, titled Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, to MTV.
Kick-Ass 2 follows immediately after Kick-Ass. You see how Dave has inspired people to become amateur superheroes, Red Mist has inspired people in the sequel to become amateur supervillains. So what we have is two rival gangs of super characters getting together in New York.
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