"Kick-Ass" ist die Verfilmung der gleichnamigen Comic-Serie von Mark Millar...
Was passiert, wenn ein High-School-Schüler (Aaron Johnson, u.a. "Herr der Diebe") auf die Idee kommt, ab sofort ein Superheld zu sein, sich dazu lediglich eine Maske überstreift und deshalb glaubt unbesiegbar zu sein? Er wird mit der harten Realität konfrontiert !!!
[03.09.2010]
MTV sprach kürzlich mit Mark Millar, u.a. über das Sequel... [...] Millar also confirmed to MTV News that "Kick-Ass-2: Balls the Wall," the film sequel, was indeed on track.
"We’re probably about nine months away from production starting, at the earliest, because Matthew [Vaughn]’s got to do 'X-Men: First Class,'" he said, speaking of the "Kick-Ass" director's next project. "Matthew just wants to get ‘X-Men’ done next year then hopefully we’ll just go straight into ‘Kick-Ass 2,’ that’s the plan."
And Millar certainly had no doubts a sequel would happen.
"You have to remember, ‘Kick-Ass’ made $100 million at the box office. Everyone was expecting it to make ‘Avatar’ money, I would say people said maybe twice ‘Iron Man’ money, that type of thing," he said. "But ‘Iron Man’ had a budget that was like eight times our budget. They were like $300 million and we were $28 million. So they made $100 million on a $28 million movie."
Besides its financial success, Millar says "Kick-Ass 2" is happening because himself, Vaughn, writer Jane Goldman, and the actors "all desperately want to do a sequel." The only caveat is its cast’s growth spurts.
"That’s something that could potentially be problematic for ‘Kick-Ass,’" he said. "That’s a massive pressure because Chloe in particular is going to change physically quite dramatically over the next few years, so we have to do the sequel while everyone still looks like they’re in high school."
Once fans get their hands on the "Kick-Ass" sequel in "CLiNT" they’ll realize they’re in for another wild ride and Millar says the movie is going to be identical to the comic that he and artist John Romita Jr. hope to have finished by Easter next year.
"It’s got everything from the first movie just getting bigger," said Millar. "The villains are out there doing horrible things and filming it all on their cell phones and putting it up on Twitter and on their Facebook pages. So we have a clash of superheroes and supervillains of ‘Kick-Ass’ with Hit-Girl in the middle of it." [...]
[22.04.2010]
Heute startet "Kick-Ass" in den deutschen Kinos...
[18.04.2010]
Bei AICN gibt es eine Kritik von Mr. Beaks...
[16.04.2010]
Quint von AICN plauderte ausgiebig mit Mark Millar und John Romita Jr....
[11.04.2010]
Bei SHH! gibt es ein Interview mit den Darstellern Aaron Johnson & Christopher Mintz-Plasse...
[14.03.2010]
CS! sprach auf der SXSW mit den Darstellern Aaron Johnson und 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. [...]
[09.03.2010]
Bei CS! gibt es ein Schwung neuer Werbeplakate...
[07.01.2010]
CS! meldet... It's been announced today that Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, based on the Marvel/Icon comic mini-series from Mark Milllar and John Romita Jr., has been slated to kick off the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas, having been chosen as the Opening Night film playing on March 12. (The film portion of the festival runs through March 21.) The movie recently played as part of the annual Butt-Numb-A-Thon Festival to raves from everyone in attendance. [...]
[08.11.2009]
Bei AICN gibt es eine Kritik zu einer Testvorführung... [...] I couldn't find any flaws in "Kickass." It was nearly a perfect script, filled with at least 8 to maybe 11 "oh shit" moments and lines that made people clap and freak out. Not only was it filled with amazing action sequences reminiscent of the gun play in The Professional or the fight work in the last two Batman films (hold the fast editing), it was simultaneously heartfelt and funny ´[...]
[07.11.2009]
Die Offizielle Website ist online und die offizielle Veröffentlichung des Trailers steht in 8 Tagen an...
[06.11.2009]
Bei IGN gibt es sehenswerte Charakter-Poster !!!
[18.09.2009]
MTV meldet... When "Kick-Ass" premieres on April 13, audiences will not only be seeing one of the year's most-anticipated comic book movies, but they could also get the first look at what's in store "Kick-Ass 2."
The "Kick-Ass" sequel that writer Mark Millar said would begin shooting within two years already has a premise, and he says there will "definitely" be a follow-up. Though it's unknown whether Matthew Vaughn will return to direct or Marvel Entertainment's new Disney owners would distribute a sequel instead of Lionsgate, the miniseries' creator remains certain that "Kick-Ass 2" will happen.
"There's a basic plot," Millar told MTV News. "The series ends on a teaser for the next one, and the movie ends on that teaser, too."
Now that the first film is on its way to theaters, Millar has his eyes on a speedy follow-up, much like the soon-to-be-filmed sequel to his last theatrical success, "Wanted."
"We don't want to sound too cocky, but we know this is good," Millar said. "It didn't cost that much money to make. There will definitely be another one."
[02.09.2009]
CS! meldet... Less than a month after it was announced that Lionsgate would distribute Matthew Vaughn's movie based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s comic book series Kick-Ass, the company has picked a release date. They're going for a late spring release on April 16, and at the same time, the company has moved Sylvester Stallone's action movie The Expendables, co-starring Jason Statham, Jet Li and Mickey Rourke, back four months to August 20, 2010.
[18.08.2009]
CS! meldet... Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Kick-Ass, the hotly anticipated action-comedy from writer/director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust). Based on the groundbreaking, best-selling comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass stars Nicolas Cage, rising star Aaron Johnson (upcoming Nowhere Boy), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad) and Chloe Moretz ((500) Days of Summer). The screenplay is written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman. The producers are Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Tarquin Pack and Kris Thykier; Millar and Romita Jr. are co-producers. The announcement was made today by Joe Drake, Lionsgate President, Motion Picture Group, and Co-Chief Operating Officer, and Jason Constantine, Lionsgate President of Acquisitions and Co-Productions.
Kick-Ass is a privately financed independent production from Vaughn's Marv Films and Plan B Entertainment, and is currently in post-production. Lionsgate anticipates a wide release in 2010.
Said Constantine, "Matthew Vaughn is an amazing talent and a true original, and he has brought a whole new mindset to the action genre with 'Kick-Ass.' 'Kick-Ass' redefines the boundaries in terms of humor, action, story, character and tone -- it's the kind of movie that reminds us of why we go to the movies in the first place. Lionsgate is thrilled to bring 'Kick-Ass' home to give it the next-generation launching pad it deserves."
Said Vaughn, "Making and financing 'Kick-Ass' has been an amazing experience, and we've had two important goals from the start: make a singularly entertaining film and find the right studio to release it. With Lionsgate, I know that I've got a supportive and fearless team behind me. It's going to be fun working together to bring the film to audiences and those who are already fans of the comic book."
Said Pack, "The massive response we received at Comic-Con has been hugely important in launching the next wave of momentum for the film, and Lionsgate's marketing and distribution talents are a perfect fit for us. Lionsgate is a studio that is not afraid to do things differently, and that is the attitude that has characterized 'Kick-Ass' from the very start." [...]
[11.08.2009]
RiskyBusinessBlog.com meldet... Two weeks after promo footage unspooled at Comic-Con, "Kick-Ass," the Matthew Vaughn comic-book adaptation about an everyday teen who becomes a superhero, is closing in on a buyer.
Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal are in the running for the pic, which Vaughn financed independently after some studios found the project’s violence too graphic and some of its dialogue too profanity-laced and opted not to board it at the script stage.
But the Comic-Con event garnered a hugely warm response from the fan universe, which has in turn helped convince the companies to reconsider. Buyer screenings followed the week after Comic-Con, and several studios began circling the pic.
Studios interested in "Kick-Ass" see a Vaughn pickup, even at a price in the solid seven figures and with a significant P&A commitment, as a way to plug a franchise-level property into their slate with comparatively little financial risk or production headaches.
Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz star in the pic, which Vaughn, the director of movies like "Stardust" and "Layer Cake," penned with writing partner Jane Goldman.
Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. wrote the comic book on which "Kick-Ass" is based. Both the comic and movie center on a high-school dweeb (Johnson) who attempts to reinvent himself as a real-world costumed superhero despite not being athletic or coordinated - and who then runs into real villains with real weapons. A colorful pre-adolescent girl who is adept at slicing and dicing villains is also featured.
Vaughn and his Marv Films had a deal with Sony Pictures, but the studio and filmmaker couldn’t see eye-to-eye on "Kick-Ass" on issues like the age of the protagonists; Sony, for instance, wanted Vaughn to turn the girl into an older teenager. Vaughn then decided to go the self- and indie-financing route.
The production backstory of "Kick-Ass" is part of a trend of bigger-budgeted commercial movies opting to go outside the system as studios become more selective about what they make. "There has never been a better time for independent financiers to access commercial material in the $25 million-$30 million range, because the studios just aren’t financing as many of these kinds of projects," said one agent involved in the film-financing world. [...]
[10.07.2009]
Wie John Romita Jr. CBR mitteilte, sind die Enden von Comic und Film unterschiedlich... SPOILER !!! [...] With "Amazing Spider-Man" #600 out the door and into the hands of readers, Romita's next assignment looks to be completing the final issues of Mark Millar's Icon series "Kick-Ass" before its film debut later this year. "I'm within a couple pages of finishing issue #7, and I've already done thumbnails on issue #8. That's how close we are," the artist explained, noting that ultimately the film and comic will have slightly different endings. "Things have to be independent because, as Mark made the great point, we don't want to look like we're ‘demagoging’ the film and trying to capitalize on it. We didn't want to do that."
While Millar had a hand in preparing the screenplay as well as other production pieces of director Matthew Vaughn's "Kick-Ass" adaptation, Romita's role has been more behind the scenes as filming progresses. "I only got to the set for a week over the winter, and I had the screenplay in my hands because I'm also working on some animation for the film," he confirmed. "They know what they're doing, but I'm sticking to Mark's scripts. Mark's scripts have a little bit of a different feel from the director and the screenwriters. We don't want to be so far disparate from the film, and we had a little bit of storytelling we wanted to at least parallel the film even though it was Mark's idea from the get go to give it some similarities while not looking like we're hocking each other. As long as it looks like the same subject matter, the endings will have differences.
"Matthew Vaughn is a fan of the comic, and that's where the flashback animation sequence comes from. He wanted an homage to the comic. He was a fan of my pacing and storytelling and used as much as he could along those lines. As long as you get along with people professionally and don't get too abrasive, generally you're going to find the happy medium." [...]
[08.07.2009]
Bei Slashfilm.com gibt es zwei neue Bilder...
[02.07.2009]
Wie CS! meldet, werden auf der Comic-Con Szenen aus "Kick-Ass" gezeigt werden... Zudem gibt es ein Bild von Chloe Moretz als Hit Girl...
[08.06.2009]
Bei CS! gibt kann man einen Blick auf das Cover und die Inhaltsangabe des "Movie Books" werfen...
[23.04.2009]
Bei Empire Online gibt es ein erstes Bild von Hit Girl aka Mindy...
[20.03.2009]
Bei Hitfix.com gibt es einen Setbericht...
[24.09.2008]
Bei Slashfilm.com gibt es ein paar Bilder von den Dreharbeiten...
[19.09.2008]
Moriarty von AICN liefert seine Kritik zum Drehbuch... Und bei Millarworld.tv berichtet Mark Millar über seinen Besuch am Set in den Elstree Studios... [...] The sets being built yesterday included a massive comic store that's going to be a continuous back-drop in the story and SURE to become a news item once we release what the shop is called (Hint: It's an ad for one of our friends). We also saw the gangster's penthouse in a half-finished state and the model for weird gadget Kick-Ass will be using in the third act. The stunt guys are all out in Canada at the moment where filming resumes in a couple of days [...]
Kick-Ass, Red Mist and Hit-Girl's costumes are all completely done and ready to be flown to Canada at the weekend. Also standing right in front of me was the mentally-ill Armenian guy's costume from the opening three pages of issue one. The problems the tech people had with the wings has been fucking mental, but all resumed now and it's worked out great. I sort of couldn't believe it when I was looking at it. Johnny is going to flip when he hits Canada next week and sees all this stuff that popped out of his pencils standing in three dimensions. [...]
[17.09.2008]
Slashfilm.com meldet... With buzz climbing for his performance in the October comedy, Sex Drive, actor Clark Duke has landed a role in Matthew Vaughn’s violent comic book flick Kick-Ass. Ever since we laughed our asses off at Duke being repeatedly mistaken for a girl on the web series, Clark and Michael, we’ve hoped to see him stake a claim in cool features, so this is great news. [..] Duke will play Marty, a good friend to the film’s titular character [...]
About 17, a chubby Caucasian high school student who loves comic books. He is Dave’s funny best friend. Together with Dave and Todd, he loves to go to comic book stores, and checks out the latest issues, while talking about school, girls, the futility of teenaged life, and the exciting adventures of Myspace insta-celebrity Kickass. He never suspects that Kickass is in fact Dave Lizewski - and neither would you if you knew Dave. [...]
[11.09.2008]
MTV.com berichtet über den ersten Drehtag... The first day of shooting for "Kick-Ass" began Saturday in London, where Mark Millar - writer of the "Kick-Ass" comic book - said initial scenes were filmed at a sewage factory. "I was expecting a lot of glamor, and now I smell of poo," laughed Millar. "We were shooting from early this morning till [after midnight]... I’m too tired to have a shower, but I must have a shower."
On set for Saturday’s shoot was Nicolas Cage, who plays Big Daddy, a former cop who trains his pre-pubescent daughter, "Hit-Girl" (Chloë Moretz), to become a lethal crime fighter. Millar added that despite Cage’s stature as a movie star and the, uh, crappy circumstances of the first day, "he never complained once during shooting. He’s such a good guy. Everybody loved him." [...]
[05.09.2008]
Latino Review wirft einen Blick auf einen Drehbuchentwurf... SPOILER !!!
[04.09.2008]
Bei CS! gibt es ein Interview mit Nicolas Cage... [...] Cage also discussed working with Matthew Vaughn (Stardust) on the adaptation of Mark Millar's comic series Kick-Ass, which is about a kid who always wanted to be a superhero. Cage: As I continue working in film I want to try to keep it as organic and honest as possible, and I am that kid. I’m the kid that would dress up like a superhero, sneak out of the house at 10 o’clock at night, jump around pretending I was fighting crime. It was a good match because it's definitely sincere. I play a guy named Damon, the father of Mindy who is "Hit Girl" and I'm "Big Daddy," and I'm training my daughter to be a superhero.
[03.09.2008]
Moviehole meldet... Just had a chat to actor Aaron Johnson, in town to promote his new film "Angus, Thongs & Snogging" - lovely guy, good head on his shoulders - about that film and of course, the highly-anticipated "Kick-Ass", which he starts filming shortly. We'll run the full interview shortly. For the meantime, here's what he had to say about the big Hollywood action movie he's about to start.
Johnson says he would never have gotten the lead role in "Kick-Ass" if it weren't for his role in Gurinder Chadha's coming-of-age comedy.
"It really helped", he says on the line from Sydney. "It'll be very nice. It's a bit of a different role."
As soon as he leaves Australia, Johnson heads to Canada for filming.
"Next week I'll be in Toronto. I'm still trying to get my head around it. I just came back from New York actually where I was doing an independent film. I've gone from one side of the world to the other. My head is going crazy. I woke up this morning and said ‘Where am I?' I looked out the window and saw the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge and I'm like ‘Wow! How did I end up in Australia?'. Have you ever seen that film Jumper? It's like I'm in Jumper."
Johnson says all this has happened rather quickly. "At the beginning of the year you have like five bucks on you, or you're waiting for something to come out. It's really nice that things have picked up a bit. And it's really nice to travel with your work".
Johnson says he just happened to be in L.A when they were "recasting" the lead role in "Kick-Ass".
"It was real good timing. They were just doing the final recast for the lead and I got it. I don't quite know what happened - it's all a bit of a blur to me".
He gets to meet co-star Nicolas Cage in a couple of days.
"In two days I see him. I hope I'm going to be awake through the rehearsal", he laughs.
"Or I'll probably be just watching him in awe - - and nod off".
Johnson says his character doesn't do a lot of stunts in the film, but most of his co-stars have been doing fight training.
"There's a younger girl in it. Her and Nicolas Cage do a lot of the fighting. I don't do much fighting - I get my faced kicked in a lot though. She goes around with a samurai sword cutting people's heads off. It's very violent obviously. It's going to be quite a crazy one. I play an American comic book nerd so it's very different from the sex god roles". [...]
[02.09.2008]
Newsarama sprach kürzlich mit Mark Millar über mögliche Sequels... [...] Millar’s next comic to make it to film, Kick-Ass (the fourth issue of which shipped this week) begins filming in early September, and is directed by Matthew Vaughn and boasts Nic Cage in its cast. That film and project, Millar said, is rife with possibilities for sequels and spinoffs.
"Kick-Ass is the only thing that I feel I could never get bored with - I genuinely love doing that, and already have the sequel worked out for the movie and the comic, because the story ends in a way that is so completely going into another one," the writer said. "So Kick-Ass is the only thing I see as a franchise that will just run and run and run, but everything else I see as being quite self-contained."
[26.08.2008]
Bei Moviehole gibt es Infos zu den Charakteren...
[22.08.2008]
THR.com meldet... Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson and Lyndsy Fonseca are set to star in "Kick-Ass," Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of the violent Mark Millar comic book.
Written by Millar and drawn by John Romita Jr., the Marvel Comics' Icon imprint book centers on a high school dweeb named Dave Lizewski who decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he eventually runs into real bad guys with real weapons.
Johnson plays the dweeb and title character, while Fonseca plays the object of the teen's infatuation who believes Dave is gay. Cage is a former cop who wants to bring down a druglord and has trained his daughter (Chloe Moretz) to be a lethal weapon.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse is also in the cast.
Vaughn and his Marv Films partner Kris Thykier are producing the feature, which is being financed independently as many studios balked at the bloody nature of the project. David Reed is also producing.
A fall shoot in London and Toronto is planned. [...]
[21.08.2008]
Bei Fourth Wall gibt es ein Interview mit Mark Millar und Tony Harris...
[15.08.2008]
THR.com meldet... Matthew Vaughn is moving ahead to direct "Kick-Ass," an adaptation of a comic by Mark Millar, with key pieces of the cast starting to fall into place.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse is in negotiations, while Chloe Moretz has been cast in the film, whose violent nature has forced Hollywood studios to pass on making it. Vaughn, however, is such a believer in the project that he raised the money for the $30 million indie project himself.
"Kick-Ass," written by Millar and drawn by John Romita Jr., follows a high school dweeb who attempts to reinvent himself as a real-world costumed superhero named Kick-Ass who seems doomed to failure because he's not athletic or coordinated until he runs into real bad guys with real weapons.
The comic is ultraviolent, with kids taking on adults of all stripes. Moretz's character, for example, is a ferocious, potty-mouthed 11-year-old who chops down crime thugs with a ninja sword. Mintz-Plasse will play the Red Mist, the angry teen son of a mobster who tries to find uncover Kick-Ass' identity.
The main character, dweeb Dave Lizewski, has not yet been cast. Vaughn also is talking to several high-profile stars to play parents or mobsters.
Vaughn first brought the project to Sony, which distributed his "Layer Cake," but the studio balked at the violence, which he refused to tone down. Several other studios expressed interest but demanded that the protagonists' ages be upped. Vaughn, who most recently co-wrote and directed the international hit "Stardust," now is going it alone.
Vaughn wrote the adaptation with Jane Goldman and is producing with his Marv Films partner Kris Thykier. A fall start date is eyed.
The project will be a 180-degree turn for the actors involved. [...]
[20.06.2008]
CBR meldet... [...] as quick a turnaround "Wanted" has had since being optioned for the screen, Millar is already knee-deep in his next movie adaptation, a live-action version of he and John Romita, Jr.'s Icon series "Kick-Ass" which is heavily rumored to be co-written and directed by "Stardust's" Matthew Vaughn.
"I'm working as a producer on ['Kick-Ass'] as well, so I've been involved for about eight months, believe it or not," the writer said. "The comic didn't come out until February, but we made the deal on the movie back in December. The script was finished six months ago, and it starts filming on location in New York in August. So it's moving really fast."
In terms of the talent involved, Millar played coy, but did note that all the pieces had fallen into place to make "Kick-Ass" er...kick-ass. "The casting's all been done, and everything's all in line now with that. There's two big names attached, which I can't mention so we can get on the cover of 'Variety.' And now we've got everyone. The kids who show up at the end of issue #3 - we just cast the girl, and that was a really tricky one because we needed to find someone who could do martial arts stuff. So the whole movie's ready to role."
[26.02.2008]
Bei IGN gibt es eine Preview zu Ausgabe #1 von "Kick-Ass"...
[27.01.2007]
Newsarama sprach mit Mark Millar über "Kick-Ass"... [...] It's about a sixteen year old kid who is so into comics that he just makes himself a costume, paints up a baseball bat and goes out looking for trouble. He decides to become our world's first superhero. On the face of it, it sounds ridiculous, but the notion of an ordinary, non-powered human being going out and trying to help people has been done in everything from the original Atom to Batman. In many ways, it's my favorite kind of superhero story because the potential for drama is enormous. This guy hasn't been injected with super-soldier serum or rocketed from a dying world. He just does 100 press-ups every night and maybe takes karate lessons and tries to eat healthily and so he's massively, massively vulnerable. It's really the most incredibly obvious idea and I'm amazed nobody has ever done this before, but the book just feels so unlike any superhero comic I've seen before. I don’t play it for laughs at all. It's too easy to take the piss out of something like this. I just play it absolutely straight and use this as a starting point in the story... imagine this kid going out there with his mask and his baseball bat. What would happen next? The obvious answer, of course, is incredible violence and that's where the fun begins. This book breaks down everything we love about superheroes and builds it all up again in a new way. [...]
Kick-Ass DVD & Video
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