"Kick Ass"

Directer: 
Matthew Vaughn


Producers: 

Adam Bohling

Darren Goldberg
Jane Goldman
Jeremy Kleiner
Lyn Lucibello
Stephen Marks
Mark Millar
Tarquin Pack
Brad Pitt
David Reid
John Romita Jr.
Kris Thykier
Matthew Vaughn	.

Writers:

Mark Miller

John Romita Jr.

Kick-Ass is about a teenage boy (David) who isn't a very important character at school and is classed as an ordinary person "who just exists." David h as often wondered why nobody has put being a superhero into a reality, and therefore decides that he will be the first to do it. At first he tries to fight crime but ends up getting stabbed and hit by a car. His second attempt was caught by the media who managed to post a video of him protecting a man from 3 thugs onto the internet. He then set up a MySpace blog where he could anonymously communicate with the public as 'Kick-Ass.' After gaining the reputation of fighting crime, he gets cocky, decides to fight a gang and ends up in a near death experience if it wasn't for 'Big-Daddy' and 'Hit-Girl' who are real superheroes and kill all of the gangsters. The gangsters boss Frank D'Amico blames Kick-Ass for the death of his men and forges a plan with his son; his son Chris D'Amico claims to be another superhero 'Red-Mist' who pretends he's fighting crime for the media and becomes just as popular. Eventually Red-Mist and Kick-Ass meet up and decide to fight crime together. Red-Mist was suppose to lead Kick-Ass into the gangster's warehouse where they'd kill him but as they arrive they find out that the warehouse is on fire and all the men are dead. Red-Mist gets Kick-Ass to call Big-Daddy and Hit-Girl to fight the gangsters and they end up capturing Kick-Ass and Big-Daddy. Big-Daddy gets burned alive and Hit-Girl just manages to save Kick-Ass before he also dies. After Hit-Girl's dad's death, she seeks revenge and goes to Frank D'amico's building to kill everyone. Kick-Ass later arrives on a jet pack and kills the rest of the henchmen. Frank D'Amico ends up getting thrown out the window and exploded by a rocket launcher.

Original Kick-Ass comic book.

The film is a comedy which was based on a comic called 'Kick-Ass Comics' By Mark Miller and John Romita Jr.The comic was published by Marvel Comics. The comic is very similar to the film as it has the same characters with the same costumes, however there are slight alterations, such as the scene where David (Kick-Ass) goes into Katie's room via the window to reveal the truth... whereas in the comic he shouts it from outside her window.


The producers and marketing producers decided to release a series of posters presenting the individual characters with also displaying the name of the film, also presenting the actors who are playing the characters.

There were more posters made which also presented each of the characters individually. The characters are shown in different action poses. Each posted has a URL address which all linked to the official Kick-Ass website.
The final poster was a theoretical poster. Created 2 weeks before the first screening, this showed the title in large letters with the characters jumping through.

A trailer was then released that introduced the idea of superhereos with no powers.

The producers also released individual short clips for each of the characters.. apart from Kick-Ass.
This is the clip for the character Hit-Girl.



The film's budget was $28 Million. 'Double Negative' did just over 835 visual effects for the movie, using mostly CGI through green screens and other methods. Between $8-9 Million was spent on special effects.


Mark Miller and Jane Goldmen were payed to help edit the script and develop it further, this included the deals that cost around $3 Million. these writers were also known for developing the script for Stardust.


Matthew Vaughn invested his own money into making this film, therefore took the largest revenue. Vaughn and Brad Pitt helped produce the film.


Prints & Advertising costs were near enough $10.5 Million, Lionsgate distributed the film taking a large percentage of the final box office figures. ($96,188,903)


The film went over their budget by $10 Million because of the advertising they did.


There was a lot of controversy surrounding this film due to the fact that Hit Girl who is around 10 years old used lots of swear words. Parents didn't think it was right for a child of that age to be using that kind of language and started protests which in theory generated more publicity for the film anyway. There is also a lot of violence, the girl kills lots of men very violently which caused a lot of controversy.