Mark Millar Comments On Kick-Ass’s Future – In Comics And Movies


In an interview with Digital Spy at Kapow! Comic-Con this weekend, one of the main guy’s behind it all Mark Millar answered a bunch of questions about Kick-Ass II (movie) and Kick-Ass III (comic book). If you haven’t read the graphic novel and don’t want to be spoiled, then steer clear of this article as there’s a bunch of spoilery answers from Millar.

“Matthew Vaughn chose the director about 18 months ago secretly because he knew he wasn’t going to be doing Kick-Ass 2 since he had taken on the X-Men franchise. For a little while, a few weeks, it looked like he might do Kick-Ass 2, but they poured a bucket of money over him to do X-Men instead.

“Jeff Wadlow had been talking to Matthew about doing this move Bloodshot a couple of years back and Matthew was really impressed with his script. He’d done a couple of movies on a small budget, and Matthew was like ‘trust me, this is the guy’.

“So the three of us have been talking seriously for about eight months, and Jeff turned in a final draft of the screenplay about eight weeks ago. It’s in really nice shape to start shooting in eight or nine weeks’ time.”

Despite Millar not often being the most reliable of sources, Jeff Wadlow revealed during the Director’s Panel at Kapow! on Saturday that the movie should begin filming in September, so this info is on the level.

“As far as we know everyone is scheduled to come back, unless somebody is hit by a bus or something. Chloe has a busy schedule but she has to stop sometime.”

It seems Millar doesn’t really know if Moretz will come back or not, and that’s a great shame as she was fantastic in the first. Wadlow also said at Kapow! that he met with Moretz a few weeks ago and she read the script but it’s still unknown if she’ll return.

“Every horrible scene in the book will be in the film. The c**t line in the first one, everybody said ‘there’s no way you’re getting that in the movie’, but it happened and it’s the same thing with this. Everybody is saying ‘you can’t have a gang rape scene with supervillains’ and ‘you can’t have the dog’s head cut off’, but every single one of those scenes will go in it.”

“Hit-Girl will be the first 30 minutes of the movie and then the next 70 minutes is Kick-Ass 2. So Hit-Girl is structured as the first act.”

And finally, Millar has revealed details on the third and final installment of Kick-Ass’s adventures in comic book form.

“The third book of Kick-Ass is the last book, there won’t be any more after that. Even though it’s the biggest book I’ve ever done, I’ve really always thought there’s an end in sight, so I plan on finishing it in a year’s time.”

“People who’ve read the comic will know that the second one ends on a cliffhanger. Hit-Girl’s been arrested and she’s in prison, Dave has lost his dad and he’s kind of destitute. The third one will be set two years later, and it’s about where their lives are now, picking it up from there.

“Hit-Girl has killed 80-something people by this point, so they’re never going to let her out. She’s like a tiny Myra Hindley.

“It’s basically illegal to wear a costume at this point, so that’s quite interesting. I used to love Marvel Comics where the cops were chasing superheroes, seeing them as menaces because they’re not licensed in any way. So I kind of like the idea of bringing that back, because in reality there’s no way a cop or a fireman is going to let a guy in a suit run into a building.

“I like the idea that after they have stopped a mugging they have to run away for the police. That old-fashioned superhero thing.

So, as Kick-Ass II is finally happening; filming in September and will likely be released sometime in 2013, do you think we’ll ever see a movie adaptation of Kick-Ass III? Sound off below!

SOURCE: Digital Spy