Kick-Ass Movie Prompts Studios To Dish It Out
Last week’s Get To Know Your Superhero: Kick-Ass has prompted me to look a little further into the production of the film and since then there has been quite a bit of news to come out of the rumor mill. First up, director and story adapter Matthew Vaughn really had nothing more than an idea and Mark Millar‘s permission to go ahead and start planning a film. Vaughn was without financing, without a script and without a cast. Fast forward a few months to Comic-Con and Vaughn’s Kick-Ass scenes played to a packed house resulting in a resounding standing ovation. Apparently Vaughn had been pumping in his own money because the original pitch to bring the comic book to screen didn’t attract as much attention as he would have liked. Now that fans have spoken and studio execs have seen some of the footage, Kick-Ass is becoming one of this year’s biggest movie properties prompting studios like Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal to take more than a second look.
Vaughn and the Kick-Ass crew still haven’t officially decided on what studio will represent them in theaters, but judging from the buzz this is generating around the comic book world, you can bet that one of the big boys is going to jump on board.
Kick-Ass will be an origin story of sorts that tells the tale of an average NYC teen looking to become a superhero. Although the concept sounds a bit Disney at first, the way Vaughn has already shot some of the film and the panels in the original comic book will show that Kick-Ass is not for the faint of heart. Blood-lust and smack-talking aside, Kick-Ass will still be entertaining for most audiences, and Vaughn promises that the flick will stay as true to the original book as possible. The film stars Aaron Johnson as the lead character Dave Lizewski, Nick Cage as Big Daddy and Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist (just to name a few). Be sure to keep tabs on this as filming concludes as we’re sure to get tons of images, viral videos and kick-ass web material to pass around.
Here’s the first as someone has posted some hand-cam footage of the Comic-Con trailer.
