So, it sounds as if Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn has gone a little cold on the idea of adapting the comic book sequel to Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s violent “real life” superhero book:
Everyone says we’re doing Kick-Ass 2 but… the weird thing about Kick-Ass 2 is I’d love to do it, because I enjoyed it so much, but I’m a big believer that if you’re going to do a sequel it’s got to be as good as the first one if not better. I just don’t know how I could…
My business brain just says do Kick-Ass 2, shoot it and get it out there and it would make a lot of money but I really do love that movie. It was a special moment to me making that film and I don’t want to spoil it. I’m not saying it’s as good as Pulp Fiction but I think it would be weird if Tarantino did Pulp Fiction 2. Everything that made Kick-Ass original and fun, if you do it again, it would be crass…
Firstly: Wait, Kick-Ass wasn’t supposed to be crass?
Secondly: This can’t come as a massive surprise to anyone other than, perhaps, Mark Millar. The original movie wasn’t enough of a success to ensure a sequel, and Vaughn has been offering variations on the theme of “Superhero movies are almost dead” in interviews since before he even started X-Men; First Class; the idea that he’d make three superhero movies in a row seemed incredibly unlikely, if not outright impossible. What I’m curious about now is Millar’s response – He may have promised that this movie would happen in the past, but considering that Nemesis and Supercrooks seem to be more likely to happen as movies at this point, he may just wholeheartedly move both his attention and internal hype machine in their direction, and ignore even the idea of a second Kick-Ass movie from now on…
