Millar over Kick-Ass 2

In het boek Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie vertelt Mark Millar onder andere welke richting ze op willen met de sequel van Kick-Ass. DISCLAIMER: dit artikel bevat spoilers!

In deel twee zal onze held Kick-Ass ontmaskerd worden. *GASP*

One of my favourite ideas in superhero comics is the exposure of the secret identity… I like the idea of doing that to somebody like Kick-Ass, who’s going to have real-world ramifications if his secret identity gets exposed. I wanted that in the first volume but there was just no room, so I shifted it all into the second volume.

Millar laat zich verder uit over Christopher Mintz-Plasse en de verdere plannen voor Red Mist.

Red Mist surviving, becoming the super-villain was always planned, but the idea was that he was going to be a more minor character in the first film. Then we saw what Christopher Mintz-Plasse was capable of! Also, I really like the idea of somebody who people were relaxed watching on screen doing horrible things… the second movie, it’s going to get very, very dark what goes on with him…So the idea of McLovin’ and the fun Red Mist doing something horrible is genuinely quite disturbing when you see it happen. We couldn’t have got away with that with another actor. The minute we saw his performance, we were looking at each other and realised how good he was and what we could do with him in the future…

Crazy! Mintz-Plasse die we vooral nog kennen als McLovin, heft minder last van typecasting dan bijvoorbeeld Michael Cera, maar toch ben ik benieuw of hij het wel aankan.