After working with Matthew Vaughn on Stardust, Jane Goldman was summoned to collaborate again on Kick-Ass.

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Kick-Ass was alive with no-nonsense dialogue, controversy-baiting characters, and a zeitgeist-deconstructing plot: not bad for someone who first wrote a movie screenplay only 3 years earlier. Unsurprisingly, Vaughn got Goldman on board to help rework the script of his latest movie, X-Men: First Class.

As well typewriter duties on that valued Marvel property (and the future possiblilty of penning further Kick-Ass adventures), Goldman has also found time to script Sam Worthington’s Mossad thriller, The Debt, and Daniel Radcliffe-starring ghost story, The Woman in Black.

More on Jane Goldman:

• Follow Jane Goldman on Twitter

• Read The Guardian’s Kick-Ass interview with Jane Goldman

• Kick-Ass Official Site