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Dear HBO: ‘Kick-Ass’ Director Matthew Vaughn Wants To Adapt Gaiman’s Sandman

by Cindy Au | 3:21 pm, March 16th

Leave it to MTV to forcibly reference Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” while spreading juicy gossip about a potential adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. Turns out Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn is very, very interested.

During an interview back in January with Comic Book Resources, Vaughn, who previously adapted Gaiman’s Stardust, announced that the world needs more Neil:

I think Neil deserves to have more stuff made. I think it’s weird that hardly any Neil Gaiman stuff has been made. The idea that no one has made “Sandman” yet is weird.

It is weird, isn’t it?

But seriously, any director willing to take on the Herculean task of adapting The Sandman for film risks red-shirting their career:

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Essay

Memo to Mark Millar: Kick-Ass is Not Realism

by Susana Polo | 4:33 pm, February 22nd

I was all ready to ignore Kick-Ass. To just let it slip past my radar and fade into obscurity like Lions Gate’s Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit. I don’t see the point of willfully subjecting myself to things that I know I will only find repugnant. But then The Independent‘s interview with Mark Millar flipped my nerdrage switch. And then, I watched the trailers, and now… here I am.

Now I know what Kick-Ass is about, other than, you know, violence. Just as I suspected, it is not an original concept, but to my surprise it is an interesting one. The idea of the realistic superhero, with or without powers, has been tackled over and over again. Watchmen, The Authority, Top 10, Batman Begins, Hancock, the X-Men, Spiderman and more have all attempted, in some way, to bring the superhero down to earth.

In a way, this makes me more angry. I’d much rather Millar take a dumb concept and make a bad movie, than watch him take an idea I am honestly intellectually and creatively interested in and make a hash of it.

Anyway, here’s the first bit that got me: Millar says “There’s never been a superhero comic set in the real world.”

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New. Kick-Ass. Red Band. Trailer.

by Robert Quigley | 9:47 am, February 19th

So: Lionsgate has just released a new trailer for Kick-Ass, the awesome-looking real life superhero movie based on the Mark Millar comic of the same name. Be warned: it is a red band, and if you didn’t know that when you read the title of this post, entered your date of birth information, and saw the red band on the fringes, you will when you hear the stream of profanity in the first 10 seconds or so of the trailer.
If you’re not already a Kick-Ass fan or Mark Millar acolyte, it’s hard not to fall in love with the movie at least a little bit when you watch this. (Disclaimer: this past sentence represents the views of an 18-35 demo male.)

There’s so much to like:

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Kick-Ass Looks — Well, Read The Title

by Robert Quigley | 10:08 am, January 19th

Mark Millar and/or Christopher Mintz-Plasse fanboys are salivating over this new poster for the movie, which debuts on April 16th. Mark Millar being the mad genius behind such iconic comics as Superman: Red Son and Civil War. This fake Twitter feed is a pretty good parody of Millarness: “What if Iron Man was actually a robot tricking people into thinking it was a guy in a suit?” Christopher Mintz-Plasse, of course, is the organ-donating lad who won our hearts as McLovin‘ in Superbad.

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