As KickAss turns ten, the key players look back at its battle to hit the big screen: 'Literally every person who saw it or read the script said 'No.''
, but something inside Millar told him he should mention his idea for. It's not done, but I've got four issues of the eight issue first run.'"
"Mathew was hopeful that when it was ready, people would see what we were so excited about," Goldman recalls of the writing phase. "You couldn't point to another movie and say, 'See how well that movie did?' Because there weren't any movies that were similar." and for a time Vaughn courted him to play Big Daddy, the Adam West-esque former cop who raises his daughter to become Hit-Girl. But soon Quentin Tarantino swooped in and brought Pitt aboardPitt was out as an actor. Nicolas Cage was in. He gave a performance that became a meta commentary on the actor's real-life comic book obsession.
"I actually looked at my brother and my mother and said, 'I would totally kill to have a role like that,' " recalls Moretz. "They were like, 'This doesn't happen for 11-year-olds. You don't get the option to play an Angelina Jolie-type character.' One week later is when we got the audition forMoretz met with Vaughn in Los Angeles, and he was instantly taken with the young actor.
"Mathew Vaughn, the whole time, was watching me with this crooked eye. I wasn't sure if I was fucking up. He wasn't laughing," recalls Mintz-Plasse. "He wasn't applauding or anything. But when I was done, he looked at me and said, 'You're too spunky for Kick-Ass, but you would be a perfect Chris D'Amico.' He just basically offered me the part right there in the room.
They hung out and sometimes got drunk together on the weekends. They also made choices about their characters together. In one of the more famous moments from the movie, Kick-Ass begins dancing to Gnarles Barkley's "Crazy" in the Mystmobile. Red Myst looks skeptical, before deciding that sure, it'd be OK to join in. That skepticism wasn't in the original script.
Moretz spent half a year training to play Hit-Girl. She studied with famed stunt house 87Eleven in L.A., Cirque du Solei in Toronto and spent a few months in London studying Wushu under the team led by"By the time we got to filming, about 90 percent of it was me, except the big, big stunts, which I probably could have done, but we legally couldn't do them for insurance, because it was too risky," says Moretz.
Vaughn enlisted Goldman to help guide Moretz, as the screenwriter's youngest daughter was the same age as the actor. Goldman's daughter and Moretz formed a bond and remain close friends. "That delivery, he just pulled that out of the bag on the day. I remember Matthew turning to me and looking really anxious and surprised," says Goldman. "I think most of us were like, 'Where did that [come from]?' That sort of strange rising intonation in the shriek. He had just done a straight read at the table read. It was so strange and such a brilliant, bold choice.
Every good hero needs a good chief villain, and Strong was ready to deliver. He spent hours a day working out to perform Frank D'Amico's karate moves. making that more of the norm. Vaughn worked closely with stunt coordinator Brad Allan to develop those moments. "I knew this was going to be a groundbreaking project," Riley says. "This was 2008 and we're filming a little girl swearing and killing three dozen people, that stuff wasn't going on in cinema."
"Matthew always wanted the character to go far out there," Strong recalls of his character becoming more unhinged as his vast criminal enterprise is seemingly undermined by a kid in a green SCUBA suit. "There's a sequence where I have a revolver pointed at my head and I'm completely freaking out. I don't know if it was too much for Matthew or if I overcooked it in the performance, but it never made the final cut.
"The scene where [Dave] is awkwardly putting the fake tan on Katie. Originally that was meant to be that she was trying on clothes to go to a party," recalls Goldman. "She was meant to be changing in front of him and trying on different outfits. 'Can you see my nipples in this one?' Super awkward." "He kept calling me for advice," says Jackman. "He was making it sound like the most complicated thing in the world, like it was impossible to score. I said, 'Just send me reel one of the movie. Let me take a look at it.' "
guys are sitting at another table. I remember thinking our budget is likely their catering budget," Vaughn says with a laugh.in Hall H, and Vaughn was nervous about pulling off the panel. Not long after, Vaughn secured a deal with Lionsgate to distribute the film. It launched April 16, 2010 and had already generated controversy due to reports of Hit-Girl saying the C-word, among other things. Though the film received largely positive reviews, some critics decried its edgy content. The late Roger Ebert wrote in his
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