Kick-Ass might finally be making a comeback. While attending New York Comic-Con to promote his upcoming spy movie, Argylle, director Matthew Vaughn told fans that the superhero reboot he first teased in 2018 is indeed happening…
“Kick-Ass changed people’s perception of what a superhero film is. We’re doing it again,” Vaughn reportedly said, per EW. “None of the other characters from the other Kick-Ass are in it, though we’d like to have them back after the reboot. I can’t really talk about it, but it’s fun!”
The original Kick-Ass debuted in 2010and it definitely was a shot in the eye to the Marvel-style of superhero movie that was just beginning to become dominant. An adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic book, the film starred Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a regular kid who decided to become a real-life superhero. Also in the cast were Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Nicolas Cage. The first movie was a hit with $96M, while a sequel released in 2013 definitely was not.
Vaughn has suggested a new Kick-Ass would center on Patience Lee, the African-American single mother who took up the mantle in the comics reboot. There had also been plans for projects center on Hit-Girl, the incredibly popular breakout character played by Moretz, but those never went anywhere.
I feel like the moment for Kick-Ass has passed. Like most of Mark Millar’s comics, it was hot for the moment because of the way it stood opposed to the status quo. But being an edgy, hot take version of Marvel/DC has been done to death. The Boys sorta has that market cornered, no?
