“I haven’t given it a huge amount of thought. Matthew’s been putting some ideas together at the moment, but I’m finishing up some other things. I do this weird thing where I compartmentalize, I find it really hard to jump out of one thing and into another”.

But what does that mean? “He [Matthew Vaughn] and I have been talking on the phone about it, but I haven’t done a book for the second one or anything, so it would really just be an original screenplay, I think”.

Will Millar weigh in? “It’ll mostly come from pub conversations, and then Matthew and Jane [Goldman] will write a screenplay I guess. At the moment, it’s just some set-pieces and some ideas, but there isn’t really a finished thing yet, there’s nothing close to a finished thing yet”.

Will Hit Girl happen?

Mark Millar seems pretty enthusiastic about a screen adaptation for Hit Girl: “I love the idea of there being Hit Girl movies, it has to be the right story though. We have a crazy idea for it, and every now and then I think, is this too crazy? Because it’s kind of insane”.

However…