Millar Promises Kick-Ass 2

Published by Jeff Leins on September 21, 2009

At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, R-rated comic book adaptation Kick-Ass received plenty of praise from attendees.  The early buzz started a bidding war for distribution and a clamoring among fans for the film’s release.  Now Kick-Ass comic creator Mark Millar is already promising a sequel.

“We don’t want to sound too cocky, but we know this is good,” Millar told MTV News. “It didn’t cost that much money to make. There will definitely be another one.” Director Matthew Vaughn managed to raise roughly $50 million on his own to get the movie made and would likely return if a sequel was commissioned.  Of course, this will be determined by the box office receipts in April 2010, but I can tell you the source material by itself is hilarious.

“There’s a basic plot,” Millar continued. “The [comic] series ends on a teaser for the next one, and the movie ends on that teaser, too.” For more details on that teaser check out the spoiler-filled final paragraph below.

Lionsgate won the bidding war to distribute the independently financed film and they likely drew up a contract that gives them sequel options.  Otherwise Disney will get a crack at it as part of their new Marvel acquisition.  But how does this set up a sequel?

Spoilers below.  If you don’t want to know how the movie ends, stop reading now.  Spoilers.  You have been sufficiently warned.

The basic premise deals with a mob boss (Mark Strong) whose underground dealings are being disrupted by Kick-Ass and his costumed copycats.  At one point, his son (played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse) agrees to become a hero named Red Mist in order to lure Kick-Ass into a deadly trap.  It doesn’t work and instead the mobster’s entire operation is killed by father-daughter assassins Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz).  The final scene finds Red Mist dressed in a more evil costume and vowing for revenge on Kick-Ass.  Think the end of Spider-Man, only with younger heroes and no super powers.