Movie Web recently managed to grab themselves a chat with Mark Millar, the creator of the graphic novel on which Matthew Vaughn’s hugely successful “Kick-Ass” was based.
Along with discussing Millar’s collaboration with Vaughn on American Jesus and Vaughn’s upcoming X-Men prequel, First Class, they managed to glean a bunch of information about the story for Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall.
The sequel will pick up with Hit Girl living with her adoptive father and Big Daddy’s former partner, Marcus Williams. Having left her killing days behind, Hit Girl suddenly finds that a Russian assassin recruited by Red Mist is after her. Red Mist is out for revenge after the murder of his father by Hit Girl and Kick-Ass and so goes online to recruit an army of villains to hunt Kick-Ass down.
As far as the graphic novel is concerned, the story builds towards a climactic showdown in Times Square between Kick-Ass, Hit Girl and the gang of villains assembled by Red Mist. Whether Vaughn would retain all of these elements for the film adaptation remains to be seen, but it sounds like a great idea for a finale. Millar says he will have the graphic novel completed by Christmas of this year and hopes Vaughn will be able to start on the film next April, once he has wrapped up his work on X-Men: First Class.
You can catch the whole interview here, along with Millar’s comments on X-Men and American Jesus.
