• I think Kick-Ass will do (and probably be) a lot better than Watchmen. The trailer comes across as being in the same vein of Adventureland. A celebration of the genre rather than a dreary deconstruction. I know nothing of the comic and realize that trailers are often misleading, by the way.

• I thought this movie looked terrible with the first trailer, my opinion hasn't changed with this one.

• Finally somebody who got it right. Now, let's see if the movie is as cool as it seems to be. I'm still a bit upset that Cage is in it, but as long as he's at his best, it might be a good thing.

• @geoff I didn't intend to imply that this was in any way a bad thing. I just thought it was worth clarifying. I remember reading about the very interesting situation in which 2001 was created. Yeah, it really is a fascinating case study.

• There's precedence for doing the simultaneous development of a film and a comic or novel, and it didn't turn out all that badly. Go read the introduction to your copy of "2001" (if you're on this site, I presume you have 2001 on your bookshelf). Basically, Clarke and Kubrick came up with the same process Millar did with Kick-Ass back in the 60s.

• I don't think you can really call this movie an adaption of the comic, faithful or otherwise; The movie was already in some form of production before the 2nd issue of the comic ever came out. After that, they were announcing casting for characters we sometimes hadn't even seen yet in the comic, and wouldn't see in the comics until the next issue came out months later. So, really this is some weird multimedia amalgam. I think the comic was almost a sort of afterthought to the movie that Millar really wanted to make. The similarity between the two lies in the fact that the comic is as much an adaptation of the movie, as is the other way around.

• i'm not an anime/manga fan but i'd really love to see a movie (or better a TV series!) based on Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary.. and it should be american.

• Holy shit, this looks amazing. The first scene in the trailer is a dead-on representation of the first scene in the comic. This is going to kick some serious ass, all jokes aside.

• @ Doctor Smashy , i liked the Wanted flick , but then i read the comic and went WTF (they chopped the story down to non-existence 2% at most) an on top of that i heard my buddy tell me that the reason He didnt do the movie like the comic was because he wanted to do the superman returns movie .... UGH . after i read the book i lost 80 percent interest in the flick . =/ . thats to tell you how much i fell for the book.

• ok my question is to you all : hasnt this concept been done before ? my buddy back in middle school had a movie where a comicbook hero crosses the 4th wall and enters our world which is reality . i cant remeber the title but at the end he busts through a brick wall to save the day (it was revealed that he used dynamite to break the wall ) maybe it was "once a hero" anyone remember this ? the guy was a typical costumed hero , white costume and captain america meet buzz lightyear flair to him =/

• "Millar pretty much did this whole thing as a cash grab; hype a comic before it's even been published, snag a movie deal, make the comic itself as an afterthought. This is the future of sequential art, kids." Wanted was the same way, what with the lead character being very obviously Eminem. It's just that there was enough of a gap that Millar's cast couldn't get brought on-board.

• @The Flash III, I've seen the Specials. It was way funnier than Mystery Man. Also, it was written by James Gunn, the guy who wrote and directed Slither.

• @SpecterM91: The Kick-Ass comic was written by the same guy who wrote the Wanted comic, and he has played a big part in both movie adaptations, too. Personally, it's looked good ever since the first bootlegged clip of Big Daddy training Hit-Girl. An interesting side-note is that the (English) kid playing Kick-Ass is also starring as John Lennon in a biopic of the Beatle later this year. Funny how stuff works out.

• Looks pretty cool; hopefully it's offbeat and low-budget enough to keep Nic Cage from messing it up. I mean, seriously, I think they don't have him in the trailer because they're hoping people won't know he's in it and, you know, go see it. Mystery Men is cool, but has anyone else here seen The Specials? It has Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy, and Thomas Hayden-Church and is about a dysfunctional super-team. It has great lines and I highly recommend it.

• Meh.

• To me it feels a LOT like <i>Mystery Men</i>, and I do NOT think that that is a bad thing.

• I've never heard of the comic, but this looks awesome. Kind of gives me a Wanted vibe, for some reason. Not a bad thing at all, I loved the Wanted comics, movie, and even the supposedly shitty game. Looking forward to it.

• &#64;Nash: I hope your wrong. So far, it looks more like a Mark Millar thing. It's pretty much the same scenario as what happened with Wanted, except that was adapted from only the first issue (because, again, nothing else had been published, yet). Right now this isn't the way most comic book movies are being made.

• It's about freaking time! This movie look so authentic, I was a bit worried from some of the photos TR has posted, but after seeing this preview I have restored faith. This movie is going to kick-ass

• There's a reason the flick looks so much like the comic: the movie was greenlit before the comic even published its first issue. The movie is finished and complete before the story arc it's supposed to be adapting has even finished its run on the comic racks. Millar pretty much did this whole thing as a cash grab; hype a comic before it's even been published, snag a movie deal, make the comic itself as an afterthought. This is the future of sequential art, kids.

• Wow, a lot of downers in this thread. Personally it looks awesome to me!

• Never even heard of the comic until the buzz started for the movie, so I don't have any comparisons to make. Does look promising in the parody/deconstruction vein like Mystery Men (which badly needs a sequel BTW) or to some extent Watchmen.

• Ah, it's a let's-pretend-it's-not-Toronto movie. Gotcha. (!@#$@!$!% movie shots always closing down streets downtown whenever I have to go into the office on a weekend. I still haven't seen the second Hulk movie out of bitterness.)

• From all the bootlegged scenes I've watched, this trailer doesn't capture just how fucking cool this movie is gonna be...if you're a fan of the comic...

• Kebabyuchenko, i agree. personally, i try not to make judgments on things like this before i see them. life is much more enjoyable being excited waiting for something to come out, as one has the rest of one's life to shit all over the things that didn't meet one's expectations, but only that short period of (willful) ignorance/excitement.

• This looks frigging awesome! I can't wait! Kebabyuchenko xxx

• To be honest I thought the first two issues of the comics were shit (the story that is; John Romita Jr.'s art was fine), but the second Red Mist, Hit-Girl and Big Daddy showed up it was all good. The movie looks like a pretty straight translation of the comic, so let's hope something has been done to tighten up the deficiencies of the narrative's early segments (I won't say what they are so as not to ruin it for those who have not read it).

• It's weird feeling excited about seeing a film based on a comic book that I long since gave up being interested in.

• Not to be a party pooper, but primarily from a movie goer point of view, my first reaction is "Another movie deconstructing superheroes". I know in comics, it's pretty much commonplace but after Watchmen failed to catch, I would think studios might want to back away from this for a while.

• They had the kid playing Crimson Mist (Mintz-Plasse, is that how it's spelled?) on one of the Late-Night shows recently where he said that they did in fact change up some of the story, especially in regard to his place in it. I guess you now know where his character stands right from the get go...which if I've worded it right, should only make sense to people that have read the comic. Of course, it would be helpful if the last issue would come out...

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