The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Kick-Ass

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Yep, there is an official trailer for Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, the unusual superhero movie where the guys went around the traditional studio system and raised finance themselves to fund the film, allowing them to make it as they thought it should be, free of endless notes and memos from Hollywood suits demanding changes. At the Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer Mark touched on both the comic and film versions of Kick-Ass and seemed pretty happy with it, saying that the film was drawn pretty much directly from the comics, none of the ‘oh, please change this character and make her older or this guy’s motivation to this’. I’ve got to admit I’m quite intrigued by the concept – not just the actual story (what happens when an ordinary, non superpowered kid decides to dress up and take on bad guys as if he were in a comic book, with all that entails) but the way Mark and Matthew have actually made the film. You can listen to an hour long recording of Mark at the Book Festival here on the blog. (via Big Shiny Robot, via Andy Diggle’s Twitter)