While “Kick-Ass” director/co-writer Matthew Vaughn remains a producer (alongside several other members of the original producing team), the creative reins have been turned over to rising multihyphenate Wadlow, who cut his teeth directing the 2008 boxing drama “Never Back Down” and has been a writer and producer on A&E’s “Bates Motel.” The scribe-helmer takes an appreciably loose, flippant approach to the ongoing Marvel series by Mark Millar and John S. As for Jim Carrey’s widely reported condemnation of the picture’s splattery content, it should only drum up publicity among target viewers who are likely to be more intrigued than deterred by warnings of excessive violence.
The 2010 Lionsgate film (budgeted at $30 million) grossed $96 million worldwide and became a sizable homevid hit, suggesting enough of a core fanbase to lend this Universal release a sustained commercial life.
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