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Kick-Ass trailer!

Liam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:19:07 +0000

Apparently that trailer countdown timer on the films official site meant nothing as the trailer for Kick-Ass has found it’s way online early. As it’s the teaser trailer it doesn’t show too much, and those who saw the bootleg trailer from Comic Con may be underwhelmed. However, from what we do see it looks great, and quite funny. It’s gonna be a badass R-rated superhero comedy!

In the film Nicolas Cage plays Big Daddy, Christopher Mintz-Plasse is Red Mist, and Chloe Moretz plays Hit Girl, a 11 year-old assassin.

First set of official Kick-Ass posters released

Liam — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:57:12 +0000

Back in August Matthew Vaughn brought his independently financed superhero movie Kick-Ass to Comic Con and the huge positive response to the footage provoked a bidding war between a few studios for distribution rights. Lionsgate eventually claimed victory after shelling out $50 million, and swiftly set a April 16th release date. Now we are starting to see the first bit of marketing for the film with IGN releasing 4 new posters.

To see the other posters showing Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy, Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist, and Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl click here!

In related Kick-Ass news AICN received a review for film after a test screening took place in London recently. Here’s a snippet (spoilers):

The comic sets out as a modern deconstruction of the superhero concept, with knowing nods to geekdom surrounding comics, and the film takes that idea and runs with. Littered with references to other superhero films from Batman, Superman and Spiderman (even the Spirit movie gets a hilarious nod), this feels like it is happening in our world, and will drive fellow geeks wild. The film veers ever more into outlandish areas as it goes on, but it always feel believable.
As far as the actors go, Brit Aaron Johnson as Kick-Ass more than fills the lead role ably handling the accent, but I did feel that he lacked the vulnerability of the comic’s Dave Lizewski, never nerdy enough and definitely too buff, but that’s just nit-picking at a role that should catapult him into the big time. Christopher “McLovin” Mintz-Plasse proves that he has what it takes to hold his own in a comedic role as Red Mist, and he seems perfectly cast. Nic Cage, who I wasn’t really to impressed with when I heard he was cast as Big Daddy, proved me wrong by putting in a hilarious, Adam West-esque performance (although his final scenes did raise a few eyebrows for his scene-chewing, but again I won’t spoil it for you).
But the film truly belongs to Chloe Moretz who, as Hit Girl, tears through the film as the baddest pre-pubescent 4 foot badass ever committed to film. She totally owns every scene and provided the audience with at least three bandstanding crowd cheering moments. She’s funny, witty, knowing, hugely crude, and just massively ass-kicking, her Matrix lobby-esque scene at the film’s climax is just incredible, and again should propel her into the big time by just being one of the most incredibly cool characters in any comic book film ever. Badder than Wolverine, funnier than Deadpool, more athletic than Spiderman and cuter than that kid in Runaways. Just f**king awesome.

Click here to read the rest!

From the positive reaction to footage at comic con, to this recent review, it seems Matthew Vaughn may have made a rather unique and cool superhero movie. All we need now is a trailer!

Ghost Rider 2 takes place 8 years on. Isn’t a reboot.

Liam — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:06:08 +0000

In September David Goyer was brought on-board to tone down his 9 year old R-rated Ghost Rider script and set it up as a sequel to 2007’s Ghost Rider cheesefest. He recently spoke to MTV and revealed some more details on Ghost Rider 2, saying it will be “what Casino Royale was to the Bond movies”.

“It’s not exactly a reboot,” said Goyer, who’s currently hard at work on his “FlashForward” television series. “I hate to say it’s more realistic, because he’s got a flaming skull for a head, but it’s a bit more stripped down and darker. It’s definitely changing tone. What ‘Casino Royale’ was to the Bond movies, hopefully this will be to ‘Ghost Rider.’ This story picks up eight years after the first film,” said Goyer. “You don’t have to have seen the first film. It doesn’t contradict anything that happened in the first film, but we’re pretending that our audience hasn’t seen the first film. It’s as if you took that same character where things ended in the first film and then picked it up eight years later—he’s just in a much darker, existential place.”

Nicolas Cage will be back as the man with the flaming skull, and filming will take place next year.

Nicolas Cage explains Green Hornet exit

Liam — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:10:02 +0000

A few days ago we heard that Christoph Waltz from Inglourious Basterds would be joining The Green Hornet as the villain after Nicolas Cage dropped out of the role last week. But why did Cage drop out? Was it money reasons? Other filming commitments? Nope. Apparently he didn’t like the character.

From Yahoo:

Cage says he “wasn’t interested in just being just a straight-up bad guy who was killing people willy-nilly.”
He says Rogen and Gondry “had a different take on the character” and there wasn’t enough time to develop the script.
“‘The Green Hornet’ was something that I wanted to do, I think Michel Gondry is very talented and I had hoped it would work but I think Seth Rogen and Michel had a different take on the character,” said Cage, who starred in 2007’s supernatural comic book film, “Ghost Rider.”
“I had to have some humanity and to try to give it something where you could understand why the character was the way he was but I don’t think there was enough time to develop it.”

From his recent career choices (The Wicker Man springs to mind) it seems Cage has lost the knack to spot out the good roles from the bad ones, although I’ll admit Kick-Ass does look quite good. I’m actually glad Cage dropped out as it enabled Christoph Waltz to come aboard and he will probably do a better job.

Nicolas Cage won’t be in The Green Hornet

Liam — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:21:04 +0000

In July it was reported that Nicolas Cage was in talks to play the gangster villain in The Green Hornet alongside Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz. Well according to HeatVision things didn’t work out.

Cage was to play the villain in Columbia’s action movie, being directed by Michel Gondry, but the actor and the studio were not able to come to terms on a deal. Columbia had no comment but sources said the studio is on the hunt for a new bad guy.
No scenes with Cage were on shot for the movie, which just began principal photography in Los Angeles last week.

You can see images from The Green Hornet set taken last week by clicking here!

Nicolas Cage in talks for Green Hornet

Liam — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:38:06 +0000

According to Variety Nicolas Cage is in talks to play the gangster villain in The Green Hornet. When I first read the news I misread it as the Green Lantern and mouthed the words ‘oh dear God’, however when my eyes stopped confusing me and I realised it was just the comedy movie of a superhero not many people care about, I warmed to the idea. Variety also confirm the news that Cameron Diaz is in talks to join the cast. She will play a reporter and love interest to Seth Rogen’s Hornet.

The picture is moving full steam ahead for a fall start date, even as the studio looks to replace Stephen Chow, who was going to play sidekick Kato. Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote the script and Neal Moritz is producing through his Original Films banner.

A look at Hit Girl from Kick-Ass

Liam — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:09:50 +0000

Empire got an exclusive photo of Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl from Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass.

Mindy’s a pre-teen assassin who’s been trained by her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) since the age of four. “Think Jodie Foster, Natalie Portman and Uma Thurman rolled into one. She’s an 11 year-old and she’s the ultimate assassin. She kills, I think, 20 people in a minute.”

The fact that an 11 year old girl decapitates people (along with other things) meant that studios were not keen on financing it, which lead to Matthew Vaughn raising $70 million to make it himself. Apparently the studios wanted to make it more commercial by turning Hit Girl into an 18 year old love interest, but Vaughn wanted to be faithful to the source material.

Kick-Ass will be releaed later this year (finding someone to make it was a challenge, so finding someone to release it must have been just as difficult.)

First Look at Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel and Teresa Palmer on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice set

Liam — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:35:11 +0000

Filming for Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is currently taking palace in New York City, and some snappers managed to get our first look at Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel and Teresa Palmer on set. Cage in particular looks a bit…different. However I’ll save negative judgement until we get a trailer.

Click the image below to see 8 more images!

Ghost Rider 2 revving up

Liam — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:43:25 +0000

Despite not that many people seeing the first movie, Columbia Pictures are currently looking for screenwriters to get started on Ghost Rider 2.

From Bloody-Disgusting:

What we learned this evening is that Columbia Pictures is officially out to writers to pen the sequel and that Nicolas Cage is in fact attached and signed on to return.

It is unlikely that Eva Mendes will return. I don’t know whether that’s obvious or not because I didn’t see the first one, so she could have been killed off for all I know. Anyone interested in seeing a Ghost Rider 2?

G-Force Guinea Pigs

Liam — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:31:57 +0000

USA Today got our first look at some highly trained guinea pigs from Jerry Bruckheimer’s G-Force, which features the vocal talents of Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penelope Cruz, Steve Buscemi and Tracy Morgan.

The film is about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-Force are guinea pigs Darwin (Rockwell), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (Morgan), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (Cruz), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a star-nosed mole, Speckles (Cage), the computer and information specialist.