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It's a strange feeling to suspect a writer you admire might be crazy, but Mark Millar just might be a little nuts. The comic book scribe is a one-man rumor factory, and he's cried wolf so many times now that many websites just ignore him outright. Most famously, he got fans in a tizzy over an unsubstantiated Superman movie relaunch, and now he's making noise that Kick Ass 2 is shooting in 2011.

As Dark Horizons notes, Kick Ass didn't exactly set the box office world on fire, which is pretty much the key thing that would sell a sequel. Even director Matthew Vaughn has moved on to new projects (most likely X-Men: First Class) during the time that Millar says the movie will film. So, why is Millar saying Kick Ass 2 is going to happen? Because he's got a new magazine to promote -- an irreverent pop culture magazine called CLiNT that will also feature brand-new serialized Kick Ass stories. The man knows how to draw attention to himself.

Is a Kick Ass sequel completely out of the question? Probably so, unfortunately. Studios, now more than ever before, don't seem interested in anything they perceive as a financial risk. So, is Mark Millar nuts? Maybe. It won't stop me from reading his comics though.

Matthew Vaughn showed up with a not-quite-finished version of his upcoming gonzo superhero flick Kick-Ass in Austin, Texas this weekend as part of AICN's Butt-Numb-A-Thon, an annual twenty-four hour movie marathon, and I happened to be one of the lucky few who got to see it.

Kick-Ass, based on the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., still needs some post-production work before its eventual release, but it didn't stop the capacity crowd from going absolutely bonkers over the movie. There's some effects work left to do, as well as color timing, and then there's the tricky issue of that temp score -- parts of which work perfectly with the film.