Kick-Ass

For the script the director, Matthew Vaughn had asked Mark Miller, writer of the comic book to write the comic and he would write the script.  the script and comic did have differences,  for example the actor who plays 'kick-ass' in the film is acting to be gay and trying to get a girl and when he confesses to her she then 'likes' him but in the comic she tells him to 'fuck off'.  the film was shot in a school and there were over 300 extras who were each specifically chosen for a certain look.  the film took about a year and a half to shoot.

The film was based on the comic book which had previously been released in 2008 and also the last comic which was released about 6 weeks before the film came out. 

the problems that they face when making the film was that they had to make it a certificate 15 and as the film was supposed to be aimed at audiences of 14 year old boys, this caused a problem, another problem was that they cast a 12 year old girl who swears quite a bit in the film and this caused people to disagree with both the swearing and the fact that the target audience couldn't view the film.

the directors view on the british film industry is that he believes that britain could have the largest film industry in the world and in only a few years time, he says about 3.  the way in which he says this can be possible is for film directors to stop taking high levels of £20,000,000 up front, and take only £5,000,000 and also says that we have the best films just not the best industry.

the film is set in Manhattan and to save money they decided to shoot the film in the UK.  for this to be possible they had to use high resolution pictures of Manhattan and put them onto large green screens to make it seem as if the film was actually filmed in Manhattan, this saved money as it would cost quite alot to have the strrets of Manhattan closed down for filming which is why they decided to shoot in the UK.

The technology they used were high resolution pictures as i have previously said and tese were put onto huge green screens to make the setting of Manhattan in the UK.  they also used the best sound recording so the actors never have to try and re-create the emotion of the moment on a stage later on.

As the film is rated a 15, it is not a 4 quadrant film,  and also as the audience it was aimed at were unable to see it, they found it difficult to get into the screenings, they had to purchase a ticket for other films such as 'how to train your dragon'.  however even though this was the case, the film did quite well as it made back its budget and had a tidy profit of about $7,000,000 and was seen as a successful film.

there were no major controversies concerning the film except some little ones about how the girl swears alot and that the film seemed to advertise weapons as two of the characters of the film had a room full of weapons on the wall and these two characters were the good guys.

the creators of the film saw the marketing and promotion of the film to be bad as they belived that it was marketed wrongly.  For example, audiences who saw trailers of the film only saw the humor parts of the film as this was all that was put into the trailers and so when they went to see the film they thought it was just going to be another funny film like Date Movie etc.  the reason for this was maybe because the comic was not well known and so unlike spiderman or hulk comics, the audiences didn't have any previous knowledge of what could be shown in the film.

there were many different artists music put into the soundtrack of the film, from artists like Elvis to The Prodigy.  although this added to the dimensions of the film it was also seen as not being the films own music.  also the opening scene of the film begins similarly to superman when the writing is in the clouds and this may have been seen to others as a copy of superman.