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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Thank You Sir, May I Have Another: Is Kick-Ass 2 Happening?


If you’re waiting to enjoy Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall (the tentative title) in a movie theater, you may have to bring a copy of the comic book with you to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, because it doesn’t sound like a movie is coming out any time soon.

While nothing is official about the fate of the sequel, Director Matthew Vaughn definitely has his hands full helming X-Men: First Class. In the past few weeks the cast has been interviewed and asked about the status of a follow-up to the much loved (somewhat critically maligned) Mark Millar/John Romita, Jr. adaptation.

On September 30th, Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass) told the following to CinemaBlend:
"Mark Millar and John Romita are just writing, possibly writing, the comic book. It’s kind of in Mathew wall court really, and he’s doing X-Men. I think it’s something we might come back to later."

Johnson’s thoughts on the project didn’t seem too dire. However, on October 4th, Chloe Moretz (Hit-Girl) spoke with Collider:
“Yeah, I’d totally love to be Hit Girl again, but I don’t know about Kick-Ass 2. Everyone’s like, ‘It’s just been announced!,’ but I’m like, ‘No, it hasn’t. That’s all rumor.’ I honestly don’t even know anymore. I don’t know anything about a second one. All I know is that there’s a second comic called Balls to the Wall. Hopefully, that will happen.”

Then Lyndsy Fonseca (Katie) expressed the following to Splash Page this weekend at the New York Comic-Con:
"It's going to be a while if it does happen. Everyone's kind of working on other things, and there needs to be more issues of the comic before there's material to do another movie. So wait and see."

Millar seems more optimistic about another big-screen sequel.  He told the following to Splash Page on August 31st:
“We’re probably about nine months away from production starting, at the earliest, because Matthew’s got to do X-Men: First Class."

Let’s hope it does, because Kick-Ass was easily the best comic book movie of the year (sorry Iron Man 2).

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