Kick-Ass was exactly what the title promised, a giant kick in the ass of the superhero genre when it was released in 2010. But by the time the sequel arrived three years later, well, Kick-Ass 2 didn’t have much new to say or do. While there have been murmurs of a spinoff involving Chloe Moretz’s popular Hit-Girl, that never happened. But director Matthew Vaughn promises that Kick-Ass isn’t dead. In fact, it’s coming back…eventually.
Speaking with Collider, Vaughn promises that a Kick-Ass reboot will happen in a couple of years. The wait? It has to do with the film rights reverting back, presumably to comic book creator Mark Millar…
“We’ve got a big reboot of ‘Kick-Ass’ in two years. Big reboot,” said Vaughn. “It’s so fucking nuts that I can’t talk about it. But we’ve got that ready to go. All the rights revert back in two years and then we’re going to reboot it where people will be like, he is insane.”
Don’t be surprised if a new Kick-Ass heads over to Netflix, where Millar has an exclusive deal for his “Millarworld” projects. I’m curious to see where these movies could go now. I feel like The Boys says a lot of what Kick-Ass used to, so will it have anything special to add?
