KICK-ASS The Movie (Update: With Brand New Trailer)
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 11, 2009
In the world of Kick-Ass, superheroes only exist in comic books. That is, until high-school student Dave Lizewski puts on a costume and takes to patrolling the streets at night to right the wrongs that no one else can. So it is in Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.'s hugely popular comic series, which will soon be a Lionsgate film directed by Layer Cake's Matthew Vaughn.
Dave Lizewski doesn't have superpowers, isn't particularly strong or smart, and isn't extraordinary in any way… aside from his desire to be a hero. Donning a scuba suit, a ski mask, and a pair of clubs, Dave hits the underworld hard in his new persona of Kick-Ass. Though not as hard -- at first anyway -- as they hit him when he's severely beaten and hospitalized as a result of his first street fight. No one said being a hero was going to be easy…
Hit-Girl is just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill assassin who wields a sword and slices and dices drug kingpins for fun. She's also 11 years old. But as Kick-Ass soon learns, Hit-Girl isn't the only other costume-wearing weirdo running around out there.
Big Daddy is literally that -- big, and a daddy. Specifically, he's Hit-Girl's father, who has made the some-might-say dubious decision to raise his little girl as a lethal killer, working continuously on a mission of revenge against the crime boss who killed his wife and his daughter's mother. Far from a superhero himself, Big Daddy simply sees Kick-Ass as a way of furthering his own murderous plans.
The mysterious Red Mist is one of the costumed would-be adventurers who emerges in the aftermath of Kick-Ass' crime-fighting debut. The reefer-smoking Red Mist soon becomes something of a partner to Kick-Ass as their assault on the underworld intensifies, but what is this hero's true motivation?
What issue is the comic up to? I think I read to issue 5. Mark Millar stuff is getting popular to make into hollywood movies.
I think it's at issue 7 currently. I haven't read the comic books yet because I heard they were shooting the movie at that time last year. So I didn't want any undue influences on the film. But I get the basic concept that there really aren't real superpowers in general, more like costumed vigilantes.
Good news though, Kick-Ass is getting an R-rating so far.
KICK-ASS The Movie (Update: With Brand New Trailer)
