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Kick Ass coming to filmKick-Ass Set Pictures

September 23rd, 2008 Patrick Leave a comment Go to comments

Kick-Ass Set Pictures

/Film got their hands on some cool pictures from the Toronto location shoot for Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Kick-Ass, depicting a scene straight from the comic book by Mark (”Wanted”) Millar and John (”Amazing Spider-Man”, “Uncanny X-Men”, you name it) Romita Jr. The scene being shot by the production’s 2nd Unit is of a flying superhero being felled and crashing through a taxi cab, which comes from the opening of the story and movie.

Now if you haven’t picked up this comic yet GO OUT AND BUY IT NOW!! It’s got to be one the best series I’ve read this summer. Published by Icon and Marvel you should be able to grab the re-prints at your local comic book store.

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The Story:

Dave Lizewski, an otherwise ordinary New York City high school student and the child of loving single father, takes his interest in comic books as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. He assembles a suit and mask, which he wears under his normal clothing, begins exercising, and practices things like walking on roofs, sating his ambitions for a time. He eventually seeks to fight crime, his first attempt at which leads to a severe beating by thugs, followed by his wandering into the street and being hit by a van.He retains his secret identity, however, stripping off and hiding his costume before paramedics arrive.

Telling his father he was mugged, he undergoes four operations, counseling, and physical rehabilitation. He is released weeks later, and as soon as he is off crutches dons the suit once more and goes on patrol. When he saves a man from a beating, an onlooker catches the scene on a cellphone camera and uploads it to YouTube, turning Lizewski into an overnight sensation christened with the name Kick-Ass.

In school, the mugging excuse used to cover up his bruises spawns rumors Lizewski is a gay prostitute. Believing them, his longtime crush, Katie Deauxma, adopts him as a “gay best friend”. Lizewski goes along with this in an effort to spend time with her. His father, worried about him, gives him a can of police-issue pepper-spray for protection.

As Kick-Ass, Lizewski sets up a MySpace account, so people can contact him for help. The first such request he investigates leads him to an apartment of violent lowlifes who try to kill him. He is rescued by a costumed young girl wielding a sword, who kills all the attackers and then leaves to join a grown man she calls Big Daddy, and who calls her Hit-Girl. The two disregard Lizewki and drive away. Lizewski later learns the police attribute the deaths to a criminal “turf war”; he also discovers online that Kick-Ass has inadvertently inspired a new subculture of people dressed in makeshift, original superhero costumes