Matthew Vaughn Wants Hit-Girl Prequel Movie

With the robust success of Kingsman: The Secret Service, and the prospect of another follow-up film with Eggsy and the gang on the horizon, you would think that director Matthew Vaughn has moved on to bigger and better things after his previous cult favorite franchise collapsed in on itself. For while 2010’s Kick-Ass was a breath of twisted fresh air, the Matthew Vaughn produced Kick-Ass 2 seemed to put the final bullet in the Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl saga.

But Matthew Vaughn doesn’t agree. While acknowledging that Kick-Ass 2 underwhelmed audiences (and box office receipts) that championed the first film, Vaughn thinks there is still life in the superhero satire series and that it should continue with a Hit-Girl prequel movie—presumably starring Nicolas Cage and not Chloe Grace Moretz.

While chatting with Yahoo, Vaughn reported that he’s “not happily done with the franchise [that’s] for sure. Kick-Ass was a really important film to me; I’m very proud of it. And we would like to dip our toe back into it.”

Vaughn continued, “We’re working on an idea for a prequel of ‘how did Hit-Girl and Big Daddy become Hit-Girl and Big Daddy?’ It’s quite a fun idea we’ve come up with. And if we make that, hopefully that will be the sorbet for the people that didn’t like Kick-Ass 2, and then we can go off and make Kick-Ass 3. I think we’ve got to do this prequel to regain the love that we had with Kick-Ass.

The return of Cage’s faux-Adam West impersonation is an amusing idea, but we imagine that even if Vaughn or whoever directed a Hit-Girl movie could regain some of the charm of that earlier installment, it might still be a tough sell without Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Moretz returning.

Vaughn also teased he’d love to do a comedic science fiction film someday, although Guardians of the Galaxy may have already beaten him to it.