In a recent interview with Totalfilm.com, Kick-Ass creator, Mark Millar talked about his plan for the franchise.

“I always had this planned as three volumes, and each is a sequel.  It’s not like a regular comic where it’s issue nine, 10 and 11. It’s Kick-Ass 2, Issue 1 sort of thing. It’s just starting where we left off last time.”

I never knew Millar planned to have a trilogy for Kick-Ass.  I thought it was going to be like his other work, Wanted, just a one shot mini series.

“Through success [he’s] inspired other people, and what the heroes do is form gangs.  It’s a bunch of people in masks looking at each other’s Facebooks and going out and fighting each other. Like a massive fight in Time Square with hundreds of superheroes and hundreds of supervillains, and the police trying to break it all up.”

I like the idea of having a bunch of copycat heroes that was briefly touched in the first volume.  The fights will probably be funny but I’m afraid the story will lose focus if too many characters are introduced.  The first movie featured myspace, I guess they’re jumping ship to facebook in the sequel.  They’re keeping up with the trend!

Millar explains the theme for the second volume:

“I think I’m actually just trying to do the flip side of it, because the first one was all about becoming a hero. And the second one really is about becoming a villain.  It probably is darker because it’s exploring the villains a little bit more like this, you’ve got Red Mist who’s become like Alex in Clockwork Orange. So he’s a bit Heath Ledger’s Joker, a bit of all the bad guys I’ve ever loved in movies. So yeah I suppose it is darker, but I think a big part of Kick-Ass is the jokes, so it’s still funny.”

Kick-Ass, the comic wasn’t that funny to me.  It was more depressing more than anything else because it was too realistic.    The movie version was more light hearted and followed a traditional  comic book theme.  Hopefully the second volume will be less depressing.

As for Hit Girl, Millar said:
“Hit Girl, of course, is back. At the end of the last movie she promised her step-father she wouldn’t kill people anymore, she’s just a kid.  So I like the idea of doing a Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven, you know where the gunslinger hasn’t picked up a gun in 20 years, but doing that with a 12 year old girl. She’s watching Glee and all that – she’d rather be out there fighting crime.”

I’m glad Hit Girl will be back for the sequel but are they going to town her violence?  Part of the reason, the movie wasn’t a huge hit was the controversy of a little girl enjoying killing the bad guys.

It’s good to know that Millar is ready for the sequel.

Kick-Ass will be released on home video on August 3rd, 2010.  First day buy for me!

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