Speaking with the creator of Kick-Ass, Mark Millar, ComicBookMovie.com was able to uncover some new details on the upcoming movie/comic sequel. The first issue of book two is aiming at an early August release to tie in with the DVD/Blu-ray release of Kick-Ass.
He also spoke with FusedFilm in which he revealed after director Matthew Vaughn is done with X-Men: First Class around April of next year, they will start pre-production on the Kick-Ass sequel right away.
On the film sequel and comic:
The film and the comic book are very closely tied together. There are only a few minor changes towards the end. It does led directly into a sequel, and I am writing the sequel as I always planned it to be. The actors may be a little bit older, or bigger. They can address that in the movie. But I am not changing anything for the comic book. We left things off with her being adopted by this extremely nice man. He is a cop. And she has to stop killing people, you know? That seems like an interesting starting point in the next one in regards to her character. She is going to be like Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven, where she hasn’t picked up a gun in years. It’s that type of thing. I like the idea of doing that with an eleven year old girl. She was part of this massive cacophony of violence. But she’s not allowed to kill people anymore. She is consumed with anger, and forced to watch TV shows instead. Halfway through the movie, or the comic, we will follow her as she picks up a gun again. It is going to be awesome.
On Red Mist and basic plot:
This is a guy who has had his entire family killed by Hit Girl. He heads off and develops his martial arts skills. He learns how to become a better villain. That type of thing. He is going to come back and wreck unholy vengeance on our team. But in reality, he just comes back and gets stoned, and he spends a lot of money. He can’t do anything, so he hires this bad ass girl from Russia, she comes into the story, and her plan is to kill Hit Girl. Red Mist becomes like Charles Manson. He goes on-line and influences a bunch of young villains to go against Kick-Ass and Hit Girl. The whole thing ends up as a big gang fight like you’d see in The Warriors. There is going to be a big gang fight in the middle of Times Square between all of these costumed heroes. And at the head will be the Red Mist and Hit Girl.
An epic fight in the middle of Times Square? It looks like they can’t fake Toronto for NYC anymore. For all of you Kick-Ass lovers (like me) the Blu-ray hits this Tuesday, August 3rd.
Are you looking forward to a Kick-Ass sequel? What do you want to see in it?