Kick-Ass was released in 2010 to widespread acclaim and a fair bit of controversy (primarily because it featured then-child actor Chloë Grace Moretz engaging in extreme violence and calling somebody a c***). The sequel, however, followed three years later and didn't receive anywhere near the same level of positive reviews.
While Mark Millar has kept the franchise going on the page, it's now been a decade since we last saw the likes of Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl, and Big Daddy on our screens.
Matthew Vaughn directed Kick-Ass and, during an appearance at this past weekend's New York Comic Con, the filmmaker confirmed plans to reboot the property and potentially even deliver a follow-up to those earlier instalments.
"Next year we're rebooting Kick-Ass and we're making Kingsman 3," he told fans (via Screen Rant). "Kick-Ass sort of changed people's perception of what a superhero film is at that time. So we're doing it again. So it's none of the characters from the other Kick-Ass."
"We'd like to bring them back after the reboot, but this reboot is just going off on a tangent that I really can't talk about. But it's fun."
Catching up with adult versions of Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl would be very interesting but, as Vaughn pointed out, he's also hard at work developing the long-awaited Kingsman threequel, The Blue Blood. Based on other comments made by the director, it sounds like the idea there is to explore the title group's connection to Adolf Hitler, an idea first teased in The King’s Man's post-credits scene.
While Vaughn will likely write and direct that movie, it's unclear how actively involved he'll be with the new direction Kick-Ass is being taken in.
Kick-Ass was directed by Vaughn from a screenplay by him and Jane Goldman. It's based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.
It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) and his son Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), has trained his eleven-year-old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.
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