Not exact matches
Because of the success of Kick -
Ass,
director Matthew Vaughn was hired by 20th Century Fox to reboot their mutant
franchise.
Underpinned by the same rule - breaking bravado present in 2010's Kick -
Ass, Vaughn's previous collaboration with comic book writer Mark Millar and screenwriter Jane Goldman, this is another confident, confounding work from a
director who never ceases to surprise, whether he's helming a star - crammed
franchise add - on or a middle finger - flipping anti-prestige curio.
Although we're still awaiting a
director of Millennium Films» all - female version of their testosterone - filled action
franchise THE EXPENDABLES, a number of lovely
ass - kicking ladies have already signed on.
The starkness of that division is evidence of a screenplay with six credited authors, expectations of a
franchise that went astray when it abandoned Bryan Singer (as all potentially great
franchises seem to abandon Bryan Singer, to their detriment), and a
director who's capable of giving good genre (Kick -
Ass) saddled with material that's at least fifty - percent garbage.