Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass isn't going to be in theaters for over a month, but it premiered last night at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival to huge success. When ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype spoke with the movie's stars, Aaron Johnson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, we weren't too surprised to learn there's already talk about a Kick-Ass 2 at least in terms of a second volume from creators Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.
We'll have a full review soon, but what's interesting about Vaughn's movie is that it starts and ends almost exactly like the first 8-issue volume of the comic series, so it essentially leaves Vaughn in a place where he could take what Millar and Romita do in a second volume and adapt it directly onto the big screen as a sequel.
Unsurprisingly, the three of them are very much in communication so that a second movie might even be closer to the comic book than the first one.
"Last night at the Q 'n' A, someone asked Johnny (Romita Jr.) if they're going to have some stuff from 'Kick-Ass 2' at Comic-Con and they said, 'Yes,' which means they're going to get started on it, which is exciting," Mintz-Plasse told us in an exclusive interview.
"Matthew and Mark have a lot of ideas, and I think they work quite tightly," Johnson added.
Mintz-Plasse gave us a little hint where they might be taking the second volume and hopefully a second movie. "I met up with Mark actually a few months ago and we had a couple drinks and he told me it was going to be great, and he wants it to be very, very dark is what he's thinking."
"If you could get any more dark than 'Kick-Ass' is right now, then Mark had even darker ideas," Johnson confirmed. "Matthew went with absolutely everything but there were some things that were impossible to film. No one's going to see it because it's too disgusting."
"It's way too much yeah," Chris concluded.
Of course, they could just as well have been talking about Kick-Ass, which opens on April 16. You can read more from our interview with Aaron and Christopher (plus hopefully some more interviews) closer to then.
Kinda late, but I saw it on Friday night, and thought it was great. The crowd also really loved it as well. Afterwards, there was a Q&A with Romita, Millar, Vaughn, and the cast. I can upload it if you guys want.
Kinda late, but I saw it on Friday night, and thought it was great. The crowd also really loved it as well. Afterwards, there was a Q&A with Romita, Millar, Vaughn, and the cast. I can upload it if you guys want.
Kinda late, but I saw it on Friday night, and thought it was great. The crowd also really loved it as well. Afterwards, there was a Q&A with Romita, Millar, Vaughn, and the cast. I can upload it if you guys want.
Do it anyways even if there are spoilers, it's a comic book movie not the godfather, lol.
My apologies. I just read my previous post and realized I didn't mention that it was photos of the Q&A I was going to upload, not the Q&A itself. Sorry about that. THE BUTTONS BELOW ARE SPOILER-FREE, just big...
Saw the movie just tonight at a special showing. Loved it also got a free comic book with going to see the movie. Everyone should go see this amazing movie.
Here’s a piece of marketing for Clash of the Titans that is at least commendably sneaky. Go to the UK version of Google. Search Kick-Ass. What do you get? In the main results, just what you’d expect to: IMDB, the official site and so on… but over in the sidebar of sponsored advertising?
First of all, you get an ad for Clash of the Titans, Warner Bros. big would-be blockbuster, which is opening in direct competition with Kick-Ass. They’ve clearly stumped up a lump and purchased some Google AdWords action. Bleeding Cool spotted this first, and made a screen cap.
But since then, there’s been some even sneakier action. A new ad has appeared, clearly purchased by Universal, the UK distributors of Kick-Ass. It reads “Don’t Be Conned. Heroes Don’t Clash, Real Heroes Kick-Ass. Join Up Now youtube.com/kickass”
A neat trick by team Clash, a neater trick by team Kick-Ass.
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