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EXCLUSIVE: Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class writer/director/producer Matthew Vaughn tells me that a major Hollywood studio is very keen to fully fund his next big project: The Golden Age about a retirement home where superheroes end up. And the title is also a reference to early comic books of the 1930s when Superman and Batman first appeared. It’s based on the yet-to-be-published comic book written by Brit TV chat show host Jonathan Ross, who’s a huge comics buff. Vaughn is currently in LA editing X-Men: First Class for Fox, but tells me he wants to get actors attached to the new project before the script is written. His wish list is Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, and Warren Beatty to play the retired superheroes who help out their grandchildren when their middle-aged parent screw up the world.
Vaughn believes the success of The Expendables and Red shows that audiences are open to the idea of older action heroes. “You have these great star names and they’re mainly playing supporting roles now. I want to give them the lead again and let them have some fun.”
It’s not certain whether Vaughn’s partner Jane Goldman, who has co-written X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass for Vaughn to direct, will be penning this one, though. Vaughn says he may hire other writers. And he may not direct it himself either. He may produce The Golden Age. Vaughn started out in life as Guy Ritchie’s producer and then turned director.
Turf, Ross’s gangsters-versus-vampires comic book drawn by Tommy Lee Edwards, is up to issue 3 in its 5-part series published by Image Comics. Fans had to wait 4 months between issues 2 and 3 though, so many assumed it had stopped being published. Sales fell off sharply, says London comics store 30th Century Comics. Ross is also involved in monthly UK comic-book magazine Clint, which is currently running Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass 2, his comic book sequel.
The idea of a retired superhero was first mooted in Frank Miller’s 1986 comic The Dark Knight Returns, which featured a 55-year-old Bruce Wayne who’s hung up his cape. And Working Title is developing a movie version of Kurt Busiek’s Astro City comic, which has a city full of retired masked crusaders.
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Um, retired superheroes were also “mooted” in Watchmen – also in 1986.
Wow, even the adaptations they’re choosing in Hollywood are uninspiring, and unoriginal.
Sounds fun. Of course, we’ve already had Eastwood pulled out of retirement a decade ago to save the day with a bunch of retired astronauts (Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner & Donald Sutherland)in “Space Cowboys,” but I’m there!
Also, Astro City is not about a city full of retired superheroes. It’s a city where there are superheroes, as well as plenty of regular people. Some of the superheroes are retired. Most are not.
sounds great. I tried to sell the same idea to Fox years ago as a sit-com for Ed Asner, Bob Nehart, Dick Van dyke etc! But this sounds promising if we don’t have too much grandchildren trying to hold the screen against the titans.
Eastwood and Nicholson were going to do The Hawkline Monster together in the seventies – a psychedelic western sex monster movie based on a novelof the same name by the great Richard Braughtigan. (Still a great project.) and people have been talking for years about teaming Eastwood
with Sean Connery. Throw in Hackman and Redford ala bridge too far and this could be the shizzle.
Since Goldman is married to Jonathan Ross, she’d almost certainly write.
Man, when is Hollywood gonna get it?
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Will Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy be in it?
Does this mean no Kick-Ass 2? If so, I’m disappointed. Retired heroes coming out of retirement is not unique to the superhero genre (Watchmen), much less action-comedies (Expendables and RED just last year, which were boring). Why do that when the window of seeing the return of Hit-Girl is about to close? So, so disappointing.
Kick-Ass 2 will never happen because it failed commercially. Mark Millar has done his best to promote the opposite with completely fabricated box office and home video numbers (which you can look up), but any fact checking into Vaughn or the casts’ goings on proves they moved on over a year ago.
Kickass cost $30 million to produce. It grossed $96 million in cinemas alone, and is likely to earn a lot more over the coming years on DVD, downloads, etc. Given everyone generally uses the rule of thumb that budget x 2 = break even, in what world did this film fail commercially?
Add another 30M for P&A
They may want to reconsider that title. “The Golden Age” was already used for a quite successful comic series written by James Robinson and published by DC Comics.
Am I the only person who is sick to death of superhero movies?
Actors to add to the “wish list” could include: Jan-Michael Vincent and the newly retired CA Gov Schwarzenegger…. And while he’s a bit younger, why not add Brian Thompson who kicked ass on XFiles and would fit right in.
PLEASE PUT CHUCK NORRIS IN THIS MOVIE!
Um – Grumpy Old Superheroes?
I would also rather see Kick-Ass 2 (save Clint for the Dark Knight Returns!) also does this mean Vaugan is not planning on X-Men First Class sequels?
Would such a movie be revolutionary… probably not. But a direct comparison to Watchmen isn’t appropriate as the mood and setting in Watchmen is much darker. Red and Expendable also can’t be directly compared as they don’t involve “Superheros”, but instead agents and military officers coming out of retirement. You would be better suited to compare this to either Tim Allen in Zoom, or the animated movie the Incredibles. Either way I think with the right script and cast this could be an enjoyable experience that the whole family could enjoy, which I think is the target demographic they are aiming at. I say go for it, sounds like fun.
This, bloody this. Robinson’s “Golden Age” was a masterpiece (I can’t believe it’s by the same author of “Cry for Justice”), and the only reason it might not make a fantastic movie is its copious references to obscure, forgotten characters and a time period that doesn’t exactly light the box office on fire.
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Who cares about retired super heroes! I want a Justice League Movie!
Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Cane, Jack Nickolson, Clint Eastwood, Robert Duval….any of these names combined would be great comedy and respect:)
Flop.
Superheroes can’t surf.
Reality is crap, but superheroes are just absurd, today, for the general market, although I’ll leave that to the pros.
So you finally get the compromises you make … < now those are the superheroes I want to see more of.
Sounds like a film that will be in the “What were they thinking?!” list at the end of the year.
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