Kick-Ass - Millar's next comic to movie

Mark Millar's comic book, Kick-Ass, is going the movie route. He's had huge success with Wanted so looks like all his books are getting picked up. Mind you Kick-Ass has always been multimedia with the initial push on MySpace and the Youtube viral advertising (see below).

Kick-Ass is all about a 16 year old lad who decides to become a superhero. He gets a costume, works out and goes out on patrol. Obviously he gets seriously beaten up. It's a pretty good comic with lovely art work by the wonderful John Romita Jr.

The movie is going to be directed by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust) with a script penned by Jane Goldman. There is a great interview in the Evening Times with Mark Millar where this gets mentioned along with Wanted and taking his 10 year old daughter to meet all the famous Hollywood people.
No word on who will be playing Kick-Ass but Millar says that, "it's a heart-throb to make jaws drop".