Jane Goldman isn’t currently writing a screenplay for Kick-Ass 2. Despite what The Daily Mail might have said…
For a newspaper that supposedly vehemently disapproves of Jonathan Ross and Jane Goldman so much, The Daily Mail continues to devote a fair amount of coverage to them. The latest was a piece which it's now uploaded to its website, citing "the bizarre truth about a very peculiar family".
As it turns out, the "bizarre truth" actually sounds like tittle-tattle from one of the neighbours, a "family friend" and "close sources" when you actually read the article. But why let that get in the way of an agenda?
The articles cites the fact that they have a Twitter page for one of their pets, that Ross and Goldman's daughter locked herself out of her flat, that their dogs sleep on the bed and that Jane Goldman sometimes spends the whole day in her pyjamas.
Well, blimey. It's a good job The Daily Mail exists to expose such behaviour. The world would be in real shit otherwise.
Anyway, the point of this story: the article in question says that "she is currently writing the sequel to her controversial film Kick-Ass".
There are two things wrong with that statement. Firstly, Kick-Ass wasn't ‘her' film. She co-wrote it with director Matthew Vaughn, based on the comic book from Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. (The article later notes that Kick-Ass is based on a "cartoon". Sigh).
And then there's the small matter of the fact that she isn't writing it at the moment. Goldman confirmed this on her Twitter feed (ironic, given that The Daily Mail clearly had a lot of fun poking around in it), where last night she wrote, "Saw a few erroneous reports today that I'm currently writing Kick Ass 2 script - sorry if anyone's disappointed, but not true. Currently writing for 2 other projects, then on to lovely Matthew V's next thing (right now, looks unlikely to be KA2) when X-Men post-prod' ends."
(Matthew V being Matthew Vaughn, who is currently finished off X-Men: First Class.)
Kick-Ass 2 is by no means a certainty for the big screen, especially given that Chloe Moretz may yet be too old for the role of Hit-Girl by the time everyone's schedules free up. But here's hoping...
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