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Trailer!: Kick-Ass
So here’s the deal with Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass: Vaughn, who directed the super fun Layer Cake and Stardust, wanted to make a movie about the titular comic series by Mark Millar, about an average kid who decides to become a super hero (of course, he would call himself Kick-Ass). But there was a problem. No studio in their right minds would take on an R-rated movie where a bunch of kids, including a young girl (Hit Girl), cuss a bunch and kill a lot of people in various violent ways. Do it up as a kids’ movie and it’s bound to suck. Do it as a movie for adults and the demo may be turned off by the child actors.
So what’s a director to do? Do it up his own damn self is what he does.
Vaughn raised the necessary $30 mil to make this flick on his own, without studio support. After it garnered crazy buzz at Comic Con this year, Lionsgate stepped in for distribution.
What does that mean for you, movie goer? It means that you have a tight director working without a studio net. No notes telling him to tone it down. All badass.
I love the feel of this trailer. It has a very old school, comics thing going on with the character intertitles. And, oh my, is that McLovin’ taking names? Hit Girl is played by Chloe Moretz, who you may remember as Joseph Gordon Levitt’s lil’ sis in (500) Days of Summer, written by Margate boy Scott Neustadter. I hated Summer for one very specific reason (die, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, die!), but I was impressed by Moretz, who could deadpan better than half the adult cast she plays up against. She’s taking on the vamp role in the Americanized Let the Right One In remake and I’ll be watching to see if she can keep up the momentum. Not to mention, I’m pumped to see Nic Cage in a movie where the least ludicrous thing about the movie is hair style, which is truly saying something.
Kick-Ass is scheduled for an April 16, 2010 release.
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