Two Finished KICK-ASS Spin-Off Movies Are Sitting Unreleased and One Stars Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell
Back in 2010, Kick-Ass exploded onto the scene with a chaotic mix of ultraviolence, dark comedy, and a very questionable moral compass. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, the film stirred up conversation and divided audiences and critics.
While most fans thought the franchise fizzled out after its sequel, there’s a wild twist to this story… a spinoff movie was made featuring Chris Hemsworth, and it’s never been released.
The original Kick-Ass, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, followed a regular teenager who decided to become a real-life superhero. It didn’t go well. After getting brutally beaten, Dave ends up with nerve damage that the movie oddly frames as a “power.”
Meanwhile, Chloë Grace Moretz plays Hit-Girl, an 11-year-old assassin raised in a violent vigilante lifestyle by her father, played by Nicolas Cage. Critics weren’t exactly thrilled. Roger Ebert famously labeled it “morally reprehensible.”
Still, controversy didn’t stop it from making money. The film pulled in $96.2 million on a $30 million budget and landed right as superhero movies were starting to dominate theaters.
Then came Kick-Ass 2, directed by Jeff Wadlow, which didn’t hit nearly as hard. Critics tore into it, and the box office dropped to $60.8 million. That seemed like the end. Except it wasn’t.
The Kick-Ass universe quietly kept growing behind the scenes. In early 2024, Vaughn revealed he was developing a new trilogy connected to the original films, but not in a straightforward sequel kind of way. He explained:
"The trilogy will be 'School Fight,' [then] this movie — let's call it 'Vram' for the time being — and then [the reboot version of] 'Kick-Ass,' and they're all connected."
At the time, Vaughn said he was already deep into writing the new Kick-Ass script, and that the first film, directed by stunt performer-turned-director Damien Walters, was already finished. That movie, originally called School Fight, has been sitting unreleased since.
By mid-2024, a second film titled The Stuntman entered the picture, and by September, everything evolved again. School Fight was retitled Stuntnuts: The Movie, and The Stuntman had some major names attached. Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell joined the cast, playing themselves in a story centered on stunt performers trying to save their training gym.
The film stars real stunt professionals like Bobby Holland Hanton, Greg Townley, Paul Lowe, and Haruka Oshima, which makes sense given Walters’ background in the stunt world.
The second movie, now titled Stuntnuts Does School Fight, is also complete. There were even plans for another follow-up called Stuntnuts Does Shiver, which reportedly would have starred John Cena and Benson Boone. But as of late 2025, that project evolved into a new title: Stuntnuts: Clash of the Nuts, with filming expected to begin in 2026.
Here’s the weird part… none of these finished films have been released! Despite having recognizable stars, completed production, and ties to a known franchise, Stuntnuts: The Movie and Stuntnuts Does School Fight are still sitting in limbo. Vaughn hasn’t shared any clear release strategy, and as of now, they remain unseen.
It’s kind of wild to think there’s a fully shot Kick-Ass-adjacent movie featuring Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell just collecting dust somewhere. Whether it’s a distribution issue, a marketing gamble, or something else entirely, nobody outside the production circle seems to know.
For now, this strange little corner of the Kick-Ass universe exists in a weird in-between state. Finished, but invisible. Maybe they are waiting for all three films to be completed before releasing them? We’ll have to wait and see!