Kick-Ass sequel to go ahead without director Matthew Vaughn
The long-awaited follow-up to comic book tale Kick-Ass could finally be set to enter production, but without original director Matthew Vaughn at the helm, reports Deadline.
A sequel to the hyper-violent surprise 2010 hit has been in the works ever since the first film took $103m worldwide on a budget of just $28m, most of which Vaughn raised himself after a number of major studios turned down the project. Mark Millar, who wrote the comic book version of the film and also collaborated with Vaughn and screenwriter Jane Goldman on the movie, has been vocal about his determination to see a sequel in cinemas.
Deadline says that studio Universal hopes to have the follow-up in production by August, with new screenwriter Jeff Wadlow directing his own script. Vaughn is committed to the second X-Men: First Class film which also featured Goldman’s writing work. Original Kick-Ass cast members such as Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse are all being approached to star in the sequel.
It’s not known if Kick-Ass 2 will be based on Millar’s second series of stories about the amateur masked crime fighter, the final volume of which was published in March. Millar’s first Kick-Ass series saw amateur crime fighter Dave Lizewski sparking a superhero craze after taking to the streets in a home made costume. The second graphic novel focuses on a newly formed superhero team, Justice Forever, and the emergence of a rival group of super villains led by Kick-Ass’s nemesis Red Mist. Fans will be pleased to hear that there is a place for Moretz’s Hit Girl, the foul-mouthed preteen with the knack for slicing and dicing bad guys who appeared to have put her crime-fighting days behind her at the end of the last film.
It is not clear exactly what role Vaughn will have in Kick-Ass 2, but he is said to be fully supportive of the decision to allow Wadlow to continue the film series.
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