I enjoyed the first enough to want to see the second even without Nic, but I posted this by way of a "we want Big Daddy' campaign !!
different writer and director though...wonder how it will differ..i liked the team before and what they together..and will it then be a sequel? or requel? and could we have a prequel please!
Hidden within a report over at Deadline suggesting that Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloe Moretz are on the verge of nearing deals to reprise their roles in the recently-announced sequel to “Kick-Ass” (this, despite suggestions that Johnson wouldn’t be returning for the sequel and the studio would have to recast) is the tiny nugget that Nicolas Cage – whose character ‘Big Daddy’ exited for the great big cloud in the sky in the original film – will also be back.
Cage, who channeled Batman’s Adam West in his role as Moretz’s on-screen father in the Matthew Vaughn-directed “Kick-Ass”, will only be making a cameo this time around though.
Still, he’s back.
Might Big Daddy be a Ben Kenobi-ghost type that hangs about to steer his orphaned superhero daughter in the right direction? Or will the character pop up in a flashback sequence? Either way, it’s good news that Cage is coming back- he was terrific in the original film, and let’s admit it, he needs to be involved in a good film for once.
Jeff Wadlow (“Cry Wolf”) directs “Kick-Ass 2″, which looks set to shoot in the Fall.
-- Edited by Lady Trueheart on Friday 1st of June 2012 03:37:27 AM
AHA! knew it! they would be foolish not to! so glad i mentioned this to Mark Millar way back when...I myself feel far less foolish now.
The potenetial for whta tehy coudl do wiht it is exciting..even a ghostly Big Daddy Adam West style voice of overseeing hHit Girl guidance would be extrememly cool and funny!
Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz Returning for KICK-ASS 2: BALLS TO THE WALL
By Sunrider | May 31, 2012
Christopher Mintz-Plasse is also close to finalizing his deal, and Nicolas Cage is in negotiations to return in a cameo role. None of the Kick-Ass cast members had sequel deals in place, which fueled speculation that some of the roles may be re-cast. There are still several other new roles yet to be filled.Universal Pictures is close to finalizing deals with Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz to return for the sequel to the heart-warming Kick-Ass, Balls to the Wall, which will be directed by Jeff Wadlow.
Jeff Wadlow is directing from his own screenplay, which is adapted from Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.‘s comic book series.
Matthew Vaughn directed the original Kick-Ass in 2010, but isn’t available to direct the sequel, since he is making the X-Men: First Class Sequel in January. If all the deals are finalized, production will most likely begin in August.
Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Aaron Johnson,Lyndsy Fonseca, Chloe Moretz, Clark Duke and Evan Peters. The film is written and directed by Jeff Wadlow.
Indeed Tues, as much as Hit Girl can handle herself (and boy she can handle herself) the loss of her Big Daddy will have left an indelible wound which will make her both tougher and deep down more vulnerable. At the end of the first film, she had teamed up with Kick Ass, and cannot wait to see how they have progressed....and what the now dastardly red mist has been plotting...but that relationship could never fill the void of the guidance of Big Daddy.
I am projecting fom my imagination of course but I am getting wayyy excited!
Any ideas on how Big Daddy will appear to Hit Girl?
Maybe she will go into a trance and start channeling him..that would be
Kick-Ass Cast Lining Up To Return, Millar Reveals What Nicolas Cage Will Be Doing
Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse have lined up to broker their deals for Kick-Ass 2. Deadline add that Nicolas Cage is yet to receive an offer, but is still talking officially about rejoining the team.
As to what Nicolas Cage would be doing in the new film, Mark Millar has started to whip up rumours:
But how great would one of the Hit-Girl mini-series flashbacks be in this movie? New training sequences with Big Daddy and his daughter back when she was little? I can neither confirm nor deny, but the Nic Cage rumour is certainly interesting.
So there’s that then. The idea of a Hit-Girl flashback would leave me scratching my head a little, seeing as how Chloe Moretz has aged, and considerably, since the last film, if it weren’t for John Romita Jr.‘s recent comments. Here’s how I reported them previously:
Romita also said that he’d like to take charge on an animated sequence for the film but the details of that are still up in the air. Here’s hoping they get locked down soon enough.
It makes sense.
Millar promises that the beginning of the film is very much modeled on his Hit Girl comic series, shipping with near-perfect timing in less than two weeks. With up to thirty minutes taken from those comics, I wonder how much screen time actual Kick-Ass 2 material will get.
Just to make it clear to peeps, this is a quote from Mark Millar himself:
"But how great would one of the Hit-Girl mini-series flashbacks be in this movie? New training sequences with Big Daddy and his daughter back when she was little? I can neither confirm nor deny, but the Nic Cage rumour is certainly interesting."
My thoughts are..flashback? yes that would be cool, but hopefully they will be thinking more outside the box than that! this is comic book stuff, a playground for limitless imagination..surely anything is possible..inclusing Big Daddy in spirit!!!!
Flashbacks with Hit Girl would be hard, since she is so much more mature in appaearance now, although they could do something, I am sure, to compensate. I would rather see something else myself, Love the idea of a helping spirit too.