In August 2012, it was reported that Donald Faison would play the superhero Doctor Gravity.
That same month, it was announced that John Leguizamo would play a character named Javier, one of The Motherfucker's bodyguards. Mintz-Plasse expressed relief that scenes depicting sexual assault from the comic book would not be included in the film and went on to compare the gang violence in the story to the film The Warriors. In July 2012, Christopher Mintz-Plasse confirmed that he would return as Chris D'Amico who becomes the supervillain The Motherfucker. Chad Gomez Creasey and Dara Resnik Creasey performed uncredited work on Wadlow's script to make Hit-Girl more feminine and less crass in light of Moretz's older age. Later that month, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloë Grace Moretz entered negotiations to reprise their roles as Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl, respectively. On May 8, 2012, it was reported that a sequel would be distributed by Universal Studios, and that Matthew Vaughn, at the time occupied with directing Kingsman: The Secret Service, had chosen Jeff Wadlow, who also wrote the script, to direct the sequel, titled Kick-Ass 2.
Near the release of Kick-Ass, Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn stated that a sequel would be possible if the first film was to perform well at the box office, and Vaughn expressed interest in directing the sequel. Just as Dave and company start to make a real difference on the streets, the villain formerly known as Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) rears his head yet again. Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey), a reformed mobster. After Mindy is busted and forced to retire as Hit Girl, Dave joins a group of amateur superheroes led by Col. Adapting Books Two and Three of The Dave Lizewski Years, the film follows Dave (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), aka Kick-Ass, and Mindy (Chloë Grace Moretz), aka Hit Girl, are trying to live as normal teenagers and briefly form a crime-fighting team. The second film, Kick-Ass 2 (2013) is set over the course of one year. įilming locations during the principal photography stage of development included Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Dip 'N' Sip Donuts on Kingston Road in Toronto, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, and "many Toronto landmarks that play cameos" and various locations in the United Kingdom, including Elstree Studios.
DEADPOOL KICKASS CROSSIVER MOVIE
Due to the subsequent popularity of the Kick-Ass film, elements of the film were incorporated into the series in Books Two and Three of The Dave Lizewski Years, with Marcus Williams, created for the film, introduced as Hit-Girl's step-father, and the relationship between Katie and Lizewski, and Kick-Ass and Red Mist being much calmer, as Millar had aligned the characters with their movie counterparts, explained in-universe as both characters having overhauled their sense of self following separate pilgrimage. On the set Vaughn jokingly referred to Kick-Ass as something that was going to be "the most expensive home movie I ever made". '" In April 2010, Aaron Taylor-Johnson (as Aaron Johnson), Chloë Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse were announced to have been respectively cast as Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl and Red Mist, having been cast in 2008 Mintz-Plasse said of the creators of the film that in the lead-up to the film's release they were wondering whether a distributor would pick up the movie. I went, 'That's great, let's go do it now! You write the comic, I'll write the script. I said, 'That's great!' He then wrote a synopsis. I knew who he was and what he had done but I didn't know him. Vaughn said that, "We wrote the script and the comic at the same time so it was a very sort of collaborative, organic process. Developed in parallel by Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn, the film's script, developed by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, took a different story direction, to reach many of the same conclusions, described by Millar as a " chick flick", with Goldman doing "construction work" and the "interior designing" and Vaughn serving as the story's "architect".
The rights to a film version of Kick-Ass were sold before the first issue of the comic book of the same name was initially published. He joins forces with the father/daughter vigilante team of Big Daddy and Hit Girl, then befriends another fledgling crime-fighter called Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), but a scheming mobster soon puts their alliance to the test. Dave dons a costume, dubs himself "Kick-Ass," and gets to work fighting crime. Using his love for comics as inspiration, teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) decides to reinvent himself as a superhero-despite a complete lack of special powers. The first film, Kick-Ass (2010), is set over the course of two years.