Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass” was a strong superhero movie that brought a bloody, gleeful and visually appealing R-rated twist to the genre. Nicolas Cage was great, as was Chloe Grace Moretz as his potty-mouthed daughter.
However, the sequel sucked. It was terrible. The reviews were terrible. The box-office was terrible. And that was the end of the franchise. Or so we thought …
This afternoon, Vaughn took part in a panel at New York Comic Con, and confirmed that he will indeed be rebooting “Kick-Ass” come next year:
"We will be doing a reboot of Kick-Ass next year, but it's a total… it's like… it's as brave as the first one but totally different and more reflective of the times we're in.”
“Kick-Ass sort of changed people's perception of what a superhero film is at that time. So we're doing it again, so it's none of the characters from the other Kick-Ass. We'd like to bring them back after the reboot, but this reboot, it's just going off on a tangent that I can't I really can't talk about that.”
Vaughn seems confident about there being real, actual plans to film a new ‘Kick-Ass’ movie — potentially a reimagining and/or a reboot, and not a sequel with the existing cast.
We didn’t really need this. Nobody asked for it. The good news is that the early rumors about Vaughn directing the next James Bond movie have, in all likelihood, turned out to be false.