Here’s a good way to judge the veracity of a rumor: Did it come from Mark Millar? If so, approach with a hefty helping of skepticism! Millar is perhaps the premiere confabulator in the comic book world – remember when he was talking to Warner Bros about a Superman trilogy? – and every time he says something on his message board I sort of assume it’s not true. You’d be surprised how many ‘scoops’ we get sent that are traced back to something Millar claimed on his message board or in an interview.
But when the guy puts out a press release I have to at least pay some attention. I mean, a dude wouldn’t bald-faced lie in a press release, right? He’s not Nixon, for Christ’s sake.
Well, unless he wants a lot of coverage for his new project, some kind of anthology comic strip magazine. In that case a guy might exaggerate a bit about the fate of Kick-Ass 2, which he says will be called Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall. He might say that the film is coming in 2012 just so he can interest you in the Kick-Ass story he’ll be serializing in that magazine, to be called CLiNT (no clue).
You can read the entire press release here. In the meantime I would take this with a major grain of salt; Matthew Vaughn is going to be in production on X-Men: First Class right up until the film’s release. I don’t know that he would want to jump right into Kick-Ass 2 immediately, as he would have to if the film were to make a 2012 date. I think that a Kick-Ass 2 is possible, especially because the film’s initial investors are walking away from the movie very happy, but until someone who isn’t Mark Millar tells me it’s happening I’ll assume it’s not happening.
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You have no clue about the title CLiNT? Squint your eyes, sit back from the screen a bit…. you'll get it.
Hopefully it's straight-to-DVD so they can make some money this time.
@#1: Heheh. Guess that'll give it talking-point coverage on it's launch, but these Post-2000ad wannabe anthology comics never last the first year. 2000ad only survived the first 10 years because the creators were a small bunch of prolific semi-geniuses (often absorbed along with the better characters from other failed titles) who were forced to output lots of high quality content because they were so poorly paid and rewarded and had families to feed. The economics just don't work these days and any creator who has a Judge Dredd or whatever up their sleeve, sure as fuck won't sell it to a publishing entity and will soon tire of the poor returns and production demands of weekly output (they won't get the good artists either for the latter reason).
Calling it CLINT is like something from Nathan Barley.
in the comics industy, Clint is sort of an inside thing because letterers noticed that when lettering names of a character named CLINT it was too close visually to the word CUNT so they discouraged naming characters such. It's just Millar trying to be cheeky. Again…
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FEX THA FECKING VERIFICATION YA CUNTS.
@2 – The movie isn't a bomb. It's done well actually and, once you throw in the potential DVD sales, everyone involved is going to be extremely happy. So, in conclusion, you're a little bit stupid.
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