The idea of the film, was based on the comic book, which was written by Mark Millar. The artist of the comic books is John Romits, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn and actually co-produced the film with well known actor Brad Pitt. The production companies of Kick Ass were; Plan B Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment, Marv Films.The Finances
The estimated budget within the box office was $30,000,000, with the total income of $96,188,903. The film was rated number one in the United States, after its third week of release. Within weeks numerous amounts of reviews were released and especially 'Rotten Tomatoes', the website rated the film to be 7/10.
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Critics | Top Critics | Audience | ||
| Kick-Ass | 76% (235 reviews) | 67% (39 reviews)[ | 83% (211,361 reviews) | 66/100 (38 reviews) |
Development of the script
Kick Ass the comic book and the film were actually written at exactly the same time 'so it was a very sort of collabarative, organic process'.
Mark Miller made a comment that Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn created a girly, and 'chick-flick', 'having placed more emotions', but Miller thought that the 'film audience would have difficulty accepting Dave and Katie not being together, whilst a comic audience would more easily accept that idea.' So instead they mad Dave homosexual in order to break the stereotypical 'chick flick' film.
Many different things occured between the comic book and the film. For example 'Big Daddy' was a former accountant in the comic book, but in the film we saw him to be an ex cop.
Here is a quote from Wikipedia basically explaining how Matthew Vaughn's script was rejected and advice given to him to make it suitable for certain audiences.
'Vaughn initially went to Sony, which distributed Layer Cake, but he rejected calls to tone down the violence. Other studios expressed interest but wanted to make the characters older.In particular studios wanted to change Hit-Girl's character into an adult.Goldman said that while studio executives said that it would be less offensive to portray Hit-Girl as a teenager, Goldman argued that it would have been more offensive since, as a teenager, Hit-Girl would have been sexualized. Goldman said that Hit-Girl was not supposed to be sexualized'.
The Cast
Aaron Johnson as David "Dave" Lizewski / Kick-AssNicolas Cage as Damon Macready / Big Daddy
Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy Macready / Hit-Girl
Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Chris D'Amico / Red Mist
Mark Strong as Frank D'Amico:
Lyndsy Fonseca as Katie Deauxma
Full Cast and Crew at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1250777/fullcredits#cast
Production
The actual filming of Kick Ass, include, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Toronto, and some of the locations were filmed in the UK, in Elstree Studios, and some other shots, for exampe the sewage plant featuring Nicolas Cage was filmed in East London.
The rating is a 15, as it had strong, brutal violence throughout, pervasive langauge, sexual content, nudity and some drug use involving children. It had a running time of 118 minutes.
Controversy
Chloe Moretz played by Hit Girl, uses the line 'Okay you cunts, lets see what you can do now'. Baring in mind tthat she was eleven at the stages of filming. It has also been said that the use of inapporiate language and the violence, was not suitable for the age rating. But BBFC agreed that is suitable for the ages 15 years and above.
Marketing
Trailers and posters were released of the comic book and the film.
Also there was a premiere held, and Brad Pitt even made an appearance.
'The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows'.
A hilarious, very violent black comedy puts a new twist on superheroics, says Peter Bradshaw
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