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“My first call with Matthew lasted three hours. Screenwriter Jane Goldman, who co-wrote Vaughn’s latest movie, Stardust (2007), made the introduction. Millar wanted to get in touch with Vaughn, best known for producing Guy Ritchie’s early hits and directing Daniel Craig in the crime drama Layer Cake (2004).
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His comic Wanted had been optioned and was being made into a movie starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy.
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The Scottish scribe helped bring Marvel Comics into the 21 st century with The Ultimates, a post-9/11 re-imagining of The Avengers that later helped inspire the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and he was on his way to becoming a hot commodity in Hollywood. Mark Millar was already a superstar comic book writer by the time he crossed paths with Vaughn. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to its key players to look back at how it all happened. Kick-Ass wasn’t just a bold reimagining of the comic book genre, it was a page-one rewrite on how comic book films are made. It would also establish Vaughn as a new voice in the comic book space and paved the way for a slew of irreverent, R-rated comic book films, including Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) and Fox’s Deadpool (2016). It sparked controversy, with some critics decrying the violence, particularly violence performed by the 11-year-old character Hit-Girl. It became a cultural touchstone as well as a modest hit, earning $96.2 million globally. “Literally every person who saw it or read the script said, ‘No.'”Īgainst all odds, Kick-Ass hit theaters 10 years ago on April 16, 2010. “They weren’t even intrigued,” Vaughn says. In the weeks following that poker game, Vaughn had no luck generating studio interest. “I remember thinking, ‘What the fuck is that?!'” “It was the guy diving off the roof with the voiceover line, ‘That’s not me by the way, that’s some guy with mental health problems,'” recalls Strong, who later played the role of mob boss Frank D’Amico. Strong, who had worked with Vaughn on Stardust a few years earlier, took it all in. “We did the first minute of the film, which was a good representation of its tone, combining the comedy and violence.” “I had some done so we could raise money for the film,” Vaughn says.
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Vaughn showed up to the game with an ace up his sleeve. Fletcher had cooked lamb for the group with the help of Jason Flemyng, who would later play the disgruntled doorman in Kick-Ass. “We were having a poker game with Mark Strong, Jamie Oliver and a few others,” recalls Fletcher, who played a mobster named Cody in Kick-Ass and would go on to direct Rocketman.
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But Vaughn was so taken with the story of an average teenager who decided to become a superhero that he would mortgage his home to get it made. The filmmaker was betting everything he had on Kick-Ass, a violent, R-rated movie based on a comic book that nobody had heard of, because it hadn’t even been completed yet. Note this movie could have been a very different one, with various directors having circled at various points in time, i.e., Joel Schumacher, Nick Cassavetes and Clint Eastwood, and stars including Will Smith and Tom Cruise, with Beyonce being a constant attachment throughout various iterations.Matthew Vaughn was already playing a high-stakes game when he showed up late to a poker night at friend Dexter Fletcher’s London flat. Nice IP if you can get it.īut here we have A Star Is Born, the fourth remake of a classic property in an 81-year period, a movie by a first-time director in Cooper, coupled with ambitious dramatic performances that have paid off, not just for The Hangover actor, but in pop star Lady Gaga too. Yes, Sony’s Venomhit $100M in its first six days last week, but its commercial success after overcoming negative reviews can largely be attributed to being a long-awaited Marvel spinoff finally hitting the screen and clicking. “ A Star Is Born will continue to ease 30% every weekend in its run,” praised one rival studio executive about the pic’s longevity. While Universal/ Miramax/ Blumhouse’s Halloween will soak up around $70M worth of business this weekend, Venom and A Star Is Born will continue to fight for second with around $18M-$20M. Every studio depends on a huge opening-weekend gross for their event movies to survive, but sleeper movies, especially ones which continually draw out adult audiences - a crowd notorious for crawling to the multiplex - is pure manna from heaven. Potent Summer Movies Propel Total Box Office 9% Ahead Of 2017 Levelsįor the third midday to date in its run, A Star Is Born beat Venomin daily grosses - the pic did so last Thursday, on Monday and last night, edging out Tom Hardy’s fanged superhero $3.95M-$3.75M.