New KICK-ASS SXSW Poster, The Sequel Will Be 'Darker'

The other day we saw two new SXSW character posters for KICK-ASS that show Kick-Ass and Red Mist in Uncle Sam wants you patriotic retro artwork and now MTV has yet another one of Hit Girl in a pose reminiscent of World War II-era vintage Rosie the Riveter
You can check out the entire image below. While the rest of us may have to wait til April to finally see this KICK-ASS movie, comingsoon was lucky enough to watch it at the recent SXSW festival. Stars of the movie Aaron Johnson and Christopher Mintz Plasse were there and they said graphic novelist Mark Millar’s idea is to take the story for the sequel to go even darker..

Mintz-Plasse gave us a little hint where they might be taking the second volume and hopefully a second movie. “I met up with Mark actually a few months ago and we had a couple drinks and he told me it was going to be great, and he wants it to be very, very dark is what he’s thinking.”
“If you could get any more dark than ‘Kick-Ass’ is right now, then Mark had even darker ideas,” Johnson confirmed. “Matthew went with absolutely everything but there were some things that were impossible to film. No one’s going to see it because it’s too disgusting.”
“It’s way too much yeah,” Chris concluded.

KICK-ASS Hits Theaters April 16, 2010!

New Official Synopsis:

“How come nobody’s ever tried to be a superhero?” When Dave Lizewski – ordinary New York teenager and rabid comic-book geek dons a green-and-yellow internet-bought wetsuit to become the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass, he soon finds an answer to his own question: because it hurts. But, overcoming all the odds, the eager yet inexperienced Dave quickly becomes a phenomenon, capturing the imagination of the public. However, he’s not the only superhero out there – the fearless and highly-trained father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl have been slowly but surely taking down the criminal empire of local Mafioso, Frank D’Amico. And, as Kick-Ass gets drawn into their no-holds-barred world of bullets and bloodletting with Frank’s son, Chris, now reborn as Kick-Ass’s arch-nemesis, Red Mist – the stage is set for a final showdown between the forces of good and evil – in which the DIY hero will have to live up to his name. Or die trying…

Directed by Matthew Vaughn, from a screenplay by Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn, and based on the comic written by Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr.  Lionsgate and MARV present a MARV Films / Plan B production.