Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson and Lyndsy Fonseca will star in Kick-Ass, Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of the hyper-violent comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.
The Marvel/Icon series follows high-school nerd Dave Lizewski, who reinvents himself as a superhero.
Eighteen-year-old British actor Johnson (The Thief Lord, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) stars as Dave, while Fonseca plays the object of his infatuation. Cage is an ex-police officer who wants to bring down a drug lord, and has trained his daughter — Chloe Moretz (Dirty Sexy Money), cast earlier — as a lethal weapon.
Last week it was announced that Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad) will play Red Mist, the son of a mobster who tries to discover the main character’s identity.
Related: Slashfilm matches photos of the actors with images of their characters.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 am
In related news, NJ police bust a couple of ninja warriors trying to take down drug dealers:
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August 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Plot details for Kick-Ass come out faster in casting news blurbs than in the comic itself.
Come on, give us a break here!
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 am
Yeah! SPOILING IT!
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Well, there’s another movie I won’t be seeing.
Nicholas Cage sucks.
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Alan, come one, Nic Cage has been in a few good movies…Let’s see now, er…right, “Birdy” is one. What about “Leaving Las Vegas?” Oh, and on the action front, what about Michael Bay’s best film, “The Rock?”
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
And that’s “come on” not, “come one” (whatever the heck that means).
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Oxymoron. Michael Bay and best film.
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Cage huh? Well that’s too bad for Millar, 2 shit adaptions in a row. Yikes.