‘Kick-Ass 3’ Won’t Feature Chloe Grace Moretz’s Hit-Girl (If It Ever Gets Made)
Posted on Wednesday, June 20th, 2018 by Ben Pearson
Earlier this month, we wrote about how director Matthew Vaughn announced plans to get behind the camera for a reboot of Kick-Ass, his 2010 movie that was based on writer Mark Millar’s comic book. One of that film’s most memorable characters is Hit-Girl, a trained assassin played by the then-13-year-old Chloe Grace Moretz. Moretz reprised the role in 2013’s Kick-Ass 2, but now the actress says she won’t be coming back to play that part in an eventual Kick-Ass 3 – and it sounds like Kick-Ass 2 could be to blame for that.
Moretz recently participated in a panel discussion at the Provincetown Film Festival (via IndieWire), and the conversation turned to whether or not she’d be interested in playing the role of Hit-Girl again. Despite tons of talk over the years of Hit-Girl returning in Kick-Ass 3 or even getting her own spin-off movie, it sounds like Moretz is hanging up her cape for good:
“I love the franchise. I think the first movie was really, really special. I wish the second one had been handled in a little bit of a different way. Because I think we were all kind of looking forward to something a little different than what happened with it all.
“As much as I love the character of Hit-Girl, I think she lives and survives in ‘Kick-Ass,’ and I kind of want to keep her there. I kinda wanna keep everyone’s mind in ‘Kick-Ass.’ So I don’t think there will be a ‘Kick-Ass 3,’ at least I don’t think with Hit-Girl in it.”
The good news for Moretz? I don’t think many people think much about Kick-Ass 2 these days. That film is a dirty, grimy piece of comic book nastiness, a movie that features a brutal decapitation, an attempted rape, and half a dozen other things that would inspire thinkpieces galore if it were released today. Moretz’s Hit-Girl is the best thing about it, but her performance wasn’t enough to overpower the film’s relentless unpleasantness. (Remember when Jim Carrey showed up as a superhero in that movie? I had forgotten all about that.)
If a Kick-Ass 3 does ever get off the ground, Mark Millar wants Tessa Thompson to play the starring role of Patience Lee, the new female version of Kick-Ass who originated in the pages of his comics. But it sounds like he and Vaughn will need to find a new Hit-Girl if that character is involved in the reboot.
