I know I’m a few days late on this, but I do have to get my two cents in, because I’m a huge fan of this comic and incredibly amped for the movie.
A few months back, I delivered a blow-by-blow account of the leaked Comic Con footage for Kick-Ass, for those of you too law-abiding (or too lazy) to seek out the clips themselves. Well, now about a minute and a half of the more G-rated highlights from that footage have been released as the movie’s first official trailer. And, y’know what? It’s a damn good trailer. Not much I hadn’t already seen, of course, but the fact that the second half of it’s backed by Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation” only helps it to pump me right the hell up.
And the trailer lays out the premise pretty clearly. If you haven’t read the comics – well, first of all, and I can’t stress this enough: if you haven’t read the comics, do. It’s not a deep, life-changing experience, but it’s a great ride, and, being creator-owned and therefore on a glacial publication schedule, it’s only 7 issues in. But anyway: if you haven’t read the comics, they follow a comic book geek named Dave, who, after a good amount of personal tragedy and generally being ignored, decides he’s going to go ahead and become a superhero. The (real) world’s first, in fact. He goes out under the name Kick-Ass, which is ironic, seeing as at the beginning he seems to get his own ass kicked more than anything, and tries to fight crime. Eventually, though, he starts to get the hang of the thing, and even inspires a bunch of much more well-armed and violent “superheroes,” and eventually, of course, things get out of hand.
That’s the story so far. The movie, presumably, will follow this plot arc to its conclusion. What the trailer doesn’t show, though, is how gory the thing is. This is a comic where a ten-year old girl with a ninja sword calls gangsters the “C” word and cuts their heads in half. Characters are, not too uncommonly, entirely covered in blood. And judging from the Comic Con footage, the movie cuts none of the horrific violence – which is what brings me to my question. Why, oh WHY, is there not a red band trailer for this yet? I wanna see some live-action Mark Millar gore, and damn it, I don’t wanna see it in grainy, taped-from-the-back-of-Comic-Con form!
Of course, for now, all we’ve got is this. And it’s pretty damn good. For now.
God, I can’t wait for this movie.
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