There will be some newcomers to the cast as well, including Donald Faison as Doctor Gravity - a college student with delusions of grandeur who wields a tinfoil covered baseball bat - and John Leguizamo as Javier, Red Mist's bodyguard. And now it looks like Jim Carrey might be joining the crime fighting misfits.Īccording to Deadline, Universal is looking to Jim Carrey for the role of The Colonel, who helps lead the group of heroes in their fight against evil. There were some questions about whether or not the original cast of Kick-Ass would be coming back for the sequel, but it looks like most of them will be returning. No actors were harmed in the making of this production!”ĭecide for yourself when Kick-Ass 2 comes out in the UK on August 14.With filming set to begin next month, Universal has been busy filling out the cast of Kick-Ass 2 - the sequel to Mathew Vaughn's darkly comic 2010 super hero satire. “Like Jim, I'm horrified by real-life violence (even though I'm Scottish), but Kick-Ass 2 isn't a documentary.
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Millar defended the violence in the film, asking readers to “imagine a John Wayne picture where he wasn’t packing, or a Rocky movie where Stallone wasn’t punching someone repeatedly in the face", and stressed that he shares Carrey's outlook on violence in society. Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can’t be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action-movie.” This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorsese and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Park Chan-wook, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless bodycount of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the consequences of violence. "A sequel to the picture that gave us Hit-Girl was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin," he wrote. “ baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn’t in the screenplay 18 months ago. Mark Millar, Kick-Ass creator, took to his blog to describe Carrey's tweets as “surprising” and reject Carrey's comments. If Carrey has raised the issue of movie violence and its possible social repercussions at the worst possible time for his Kick-Ass 2 collaborators, he was at pains to point out that he is "not ashamed" of the film and has acted out of conscience after "recent events caused a change in my heart". I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.” “My apologies to others involve with the film. “I did Kick-Ass a month before Sandy Hook, and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence,” he told his Twitter followers. The actor explained that the massacre at Sandy Hook in December had changed his attitude towards the movie.
Jim Carrey, Kick-Ass 2's Colonel Stars and Stripes, has taken to Twitter to condemn the level of violence in the film and distance himself from its promotional campaign.