I’m glad to hear they’ve got so much creative control of the end product. Maybe once I see a little more about the movie for myself I’ll turn around on it, but for now it’s just yet another comic adaptation I’m not interested in.

Also, Kick-Ass is untouched from the Hollywood machine. Writer/Director Matthew Vaughn made the film independently, with private financiers, before selling the finished product to Lionsgate – that means that he/they had pretty much total creative control and no studio breathing down their neck. I would also argue your sentiment about Kick-Ass being grouped in with the most “bankable” opportunites – this will be a hard R I believe, and besides, when did you ever see a kid wearing a Kick-Ass backpack? It’s not an unheard of title, but it’s not what I’d consider entirely mainstream either. Books like Jonah Hex are far more well-known than Kick-Ass I reckon.

So is this Mystery Men, but more comic booky and more Nicolas Cage?

I might just be sick to death of Hollywood relying on what’s the most bankable opportunity going at the moment. Super hero’s and remakes, 3D and sequels… No thanks.