It's Pretty Much Official - No Kick Ass 3
While Mark Millar was doing a promotional interview with IGN for Kingsman the subject of Kick Ass came up. On a potential third part Millar had this to say:
"With Kick-Ass 1 we knew we were doing a sequel because the first one cost $28m and made $100m and then did $140m on TV and DVD, so it was a no-brainer – of course there was a Kick-Ass 2. But the second one cost a little less – it cost £24m, but it only made back $60m and with TV money and everything it was slightly in profit. It didn’t lose money. But did it make enough money to justify a third one? You know you’ve always got to listen to the audience, and if people didn’t come out in droves for it, it means there’s no audience."
If even Millar says it's done then that's it as far as I'm concerned. The chances of us seeing a third film are non existent. The sad part is THERE IS an audience for Kick Ass but many of them were put off seeing it by the bile a lot of critics spewed when the film came out - it actually wasn't that bad although yes it should have been better!
The only good news from the article is that Mathew Vaughn apparently still brings up the possibility of a Hit Girl spin off from time to time!
Links below if anyone wants to read the whole thing:
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/01/27/mark-millar-on-the-hit-girl-movie-that-never-was share