{"id":12003,"date":"2010-09-01T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=12003"},"modified":"2010-09-01T16:59:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T15:59:49","slug":"exclusive-kick-ass-sequel-definitely-going-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/exclusive-kick-ass-sequel-definitely-going-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Kick-Ass sequel definitely going ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mark Millar has said that a sequel to Kick-Ass will definitely happen. Speaking to SciFiNow, the comic book writer, who is launching the sequel to his popular comic strip in the first issue of CLiNT magazine, said that the only problems were scheduling ones when we asked him about the possibility of a second film.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s happening anyway, even based on the theatrical performance [of the first film],\u201d said Millar. \u201cThe theatrical revenue put us in profit \u2013 it made money, it made good money, so combine that with the DVD money and everything and it\u2019s an absolute shoo-in.<\/p>\n

“Matthew [Vaughn, director]\u2019s only dilemma is, he and I have two projects we\u2019re readying after X-Men \u2013 we\u2019ll have a script ready for both early next year, so we want to be shooting one of these two projects next summer. Vaughn will direct one and produce the other \u2013 I don\u2019t know what that\u2019ll be yet, whether it\u2019ll be Kick-Ass 2 or this other thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the first film, Millar admitted that he felt mixed about its performance at first, until Vaughn put the numbers in perspective for him. \u201cIt\u2019s weird, because Matthew kept saying to me, \u2018Calm down.\u2019 I was like, it\u2019s going to do $500 million and Matthew\u2019s like, it cost $28 million! To put it in context, Iron Man cost $200 million, and Matthew said if we\u2019re in profit, we\u2019re happy. Even then in the back of my mind, $100 million and in profit wasn\u2019t good enough \u2013 I wanted it to do bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being slightly disappointed by the theatrical take, however, Millar was overwhelmed by the sales in other areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we realised is it\u2019s gone nuts on DVD \u2013 it\u2019s made $38 million in its first week on DVD, which is almost its entire domestic gross, and 42 per cent of that is Blu-ray. We\u2019re probably going to make $150 million on DVD over the next 15 weeks. I don\u2019t know the formula they use, but you can usually work it out to about a quid \u2013 they multiply something; take something away using that first week\u2019s sales and pre-orders.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re looking at $100 million theatrically then $100-150 million on DVD, then there\u2019s TV rights on top of it. Matthew was phoning me last week \u2013 that\u2019s a quarter of a billion dollars from a $28 million investment! He\u2019s been very sensible about this from the start, while I was going, \u2018it\u2019s going to be bigger than Avatar\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of comics, Millar is most famous for his work on The Authority and, of course, his rebooted Avengers in the form of the Ultimates. When asked, however, he was nonchalant about whether his take on the characters, such as Captain America, would make it into the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m honestly not bothered. If it\u2019s a great movie, then great. I just see myself as somebody who\u2019s borrowed those characters and got to play with them for a while. I don\u2019t see any kind of ownership. I\u2019m just going into these movies as a fan. They\u2019ve invited me to the Captain America set, which is exciting, but generally speaking, I feel like I\u2019m doing my own job with the Millarworld stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creator says Kick-Ass 2 is “happening”, but remains uncertain about when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[455,1602,482],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}