If Thursday's "Kick-Ass" movie panel is any indication, director Matthew Vaughn shouldn't have too much trouble bringing his live-action adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s ultraviolent comic book series to theaters.
Along with offering the very first peek at footage from the film, the "Kick-Ass" panel also provided the first look at the costumes worn by the father-daughter vigilante team played by Nicolas Cage and Chloe Moretz. Over the course of the panel, Vaughn was joined by screenwriter Jane Goldman, "Kick-Ass" creators Millar and Romita, and cast members Clark Duke, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and surprise guest Chloe Moretz. And much like Vaughn promised during our Comic-Con preview, he brought along four scenes from the first act of the film, as well as a montage of the remaining scenes.
The footage offered a great look at what looks to be every bit the faithful adaptation that Vaughn has promised from the start.
The video element of the panel kicked off with the opening scene in the film -- an almost word-for-word, panel-for-panel recreation of the first few pages of the comic book series. Lead actor Aaron Johnson narrated over a clip that offered a disturbing look at what might happen when a wannabe superhero takes to the air.
The second clip also seemed like a direct lift from the comics, with Big Daddy (Cage) teaching Hit Girl (Moretz) not to flinch at the sight of a gun... by shooting her. The scene closed with Moretz negotiating with her father for a trip to the ice cream store, but only as long as she's willing to be shot a few more times.
In the third clip, we saw Johnson's decision to don his costume and confront a pair of muggers end with a knife to the stomach and a hit-and-run collision.
The fourth and final clip presented the scene in which teen vigilante Kick-Ass meets Hit Girl for the first time while confronting a local criminal who's been abusing his girlfriend. From the methods Hit Girl used to dispatch the criminals to her banter while doing so, the scene looked to be the best indication of how faithful the movie has stayed to its source material -- even when it came to the extreme violence seeding the series.
Moretz's Hit Girl costume was indeed similar to hr comics counterpart, with purple hair, mask and "HG" utility belt, but she also sported a schoolgirl-style skirt while impaling and decapitating her foes.
Depsite the crowd's overwhelmingly positive response, Vaughn still offered some caveats with the footage, telling the audience that there are " a lot better scenes than this -- I swear on my kids."
Finally, Vaughn introduced a montage of scenes from the rest of the film that included the first look at Cage's costume: a black, military-style suit that, at first glance, seemed modeled on a certain Dark Knight. Featuring a black, armored suit and mask, the costume was the most significant departure from the comics seen thus far.
In the montage, Big Daddy was seen firing off a shotgun and taking out a host of targets with both guns and explosives, while Hit Girl raced down a hallway dispatching enemies with a pair of automatic handguns.
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