Kick-Ass is a 2010 English-language Action Comedy film written by Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn, Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. The movie is directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Kris Thykier, Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack and David Reid under the banner of Marv Films in collaboration with Plan B Entertainment. Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. Kick-ass features Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-plasse, Mark Strong, Chlo Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Aaron Taylor-johnson and Daphne Cheung. The screenplay is written by Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn which is inspired from Kick-Ass by Mark Millar John Romita Jr. The music was composed by John Murphy along with Henry Jackman, Marius De Vries and Ilan Eshkeri. Cinematography was done by Ben Davis and editing by Pietro Scalia, Jon Harris and Eddie Hamilton. The motion picture has a running time of 117 minutes. It was released on 15th April 2010. The Film was successful at box office. Kick-Ass was made on a budget of $30 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $96 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Lionsgate.