Mark Millar Claims KICK-ASS 2 Greenlit ; Wants Depp and Pitt for NEMESIS

Comic book writer Mark Millar, the guy behind Wanted and Kick-Ass is more or less running his mouth about upcoming projects. Millar is notorious for talking about “news” that has yet to be confirmed to take this as speculation and probably nothing more.

So what is the big news? Millar claims that a sequel to Kick-Ass has been greenlit and is ready to roll. Millar wrote the graphic novel Kick-Ass which inspired the film adaptation that dropped in theaters earlier this year. Millar was on BBC Radio Live Five where he had this to say about Kick-Ass 2:

The estimate is [Kick-Ass] will do 100 to 150 million on DVD based on the American sales, you know, so it’ll end up making a quarter of a billion on a 28 million investment. So It should be okay. So the sequel’s greenlit, we can go ahead and do the follow up now, you know. The first made so much compared to what it cost it would be crazy not to.

His thought process on what Kick-Ass could potentially make in DVD sales is rather exaggerated. The movie only made $48 million in U.S ticket sales, so his optimism is just that.

Today Millar went on MTV and has this to say:

We’re probably about nine months away from production starting, at the earliest, because Matthew [Vaughn]’s got to do ‘X-Men: First Class,’…Matthew just wants to get ‘X-Men’ done next year then hopefully we’ll just go straight into ‘Kick-Ass 2,’ that’s the plan.

Matthew Vaughn directed Kick-Ass and is currently working on X-Men: First Class so like Millar stated above, he is going to be busy for several months with that project. At least Millar acknowledges that they are at least nine months away from production.

Another headline making waves on the net is yet again from Mark Millar who, still running his mouth, said on BBC Radio that him and director Tony Scott are working together on Nemesis, another graphic novel that Millar wrote. Here is what Millar had to say about that project and who he wanted in the film:

Tony Scott, brother of Ridley Scott… I just got a call from him, literally about a month ago… it was one of those very surreal things. This is a $150 million budget… he said “Who do you fancy for it?”… I said “I dunno, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp” so he said “That’s good, we’ll give them a call.”

Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp in a comic book movie is sure a crapshoot. Good luck Millar. Like I said in the beginning of this article, Millar has a tendency to exaggerate the truth. So, I wouldn’t be too convinced that most of this is all that true. But as always, we will keep you posted.