Podcast | Kick-Ass (2010) and Payback (1999)

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How Kick-Ass waded into a tabloid newspaper backlash, and how Payback went through major post-production surgery.


None of the Hollywood studios wanted to make 2010ā€™s Kick-Ass, a comic book movie with an R-rated edge. All of them turned it down, and so the film came to life in tandem with the comics, exploding into cinemas in 2010. It would be fair to say that not everyone in the media was pleased about it, as quite a backlash bubbled up.

There were problems with 1999ā€™s Payback too, but they came down to a different of opinion between star Mel Gibson and writer/director Brian Helgeland. It got to a point where just days after Helgeland won an Oscar for L.A. Confidential, he was, er, ā€˜removedā€™ from Payback.

The behind the scenes stories of both films are told in this episodeā€¦

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