Matthew Vaughn directed the first version and produced the second version. Chris Killian of ComicBook.com recently sat down at a table with the cast and crew of The King’s Man , and Vaughn teased about the upcoming Kick-Ass reboot :
Oh, you guys already had a big reboot, a big Kick-Ass reboot in two years. Big reboot … These are some fucking balls that I can’t even talk about. However, we are ready for action. All rights are to be granted in two years and then we will move to the new scene people expect. The movie is insane. I won’t say anything else.
When asked why he wanted to reboot instead of Kick-Ass 3 he replied:
Because I think all the clue is in the title. I think Kick-Ass … will be a new genre. Everyone feels that way – wherever we do it, people will like it. They say: Oh, you can’t do a R-class superhero production. Nobody’s going to want to watch this. You can not do it. You can’t do that. So [laughs] I said challenge accepted and the madness started. I said something like: Yes, great. We will cause a lot of controversy and everyone will talk about it, and as many will love it, so many will hate it. I’m not saying there weren’t any good characters in it, you understand? I am saying that the end result is not what anyone imagined. And I need one very, very brave actor or actress to play the new Kick-Assbecause it scares all skeptics.
On The Tonight Show’s , Jimmy Fallon asked Chloe Grace Moretz about the Kick-Ass 3 rumors , and she said she would like to return as Hit-Girl:
I mean, I’d like to make a Kick-Ass 3 . It would be great to see where Hit-Girl has gone and what she is like as an adult. But I think the whole thing would have to be perfect. I feel like it has to be and it would take a lot of boundaries for Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chris Mintz-Plasse and the whole crew to meet again.
