Tuesday, September 2

• Mark Millar Really, Really Wants the Superman Gig

  When the folks at Warner Bros. begin searching for a writer for the studio's planned Superman franchise reboot, they need look no further than Mark Millar. In a recent interview with G4, the Scottish-bred author of Wanted and Kick-Ass resumed his lobbying for the Man of Steel gig, laying out his ambitious plans for an epic, seven-hour trilogy in the style of Lord of the Rings. (Turns out you can do a proper trilogy in less than nine hours if you don't have a dozen endings. Who knew?)

  What makes him the right guy for the job? Among other impressive Supes fanboy credentials, Millar bragged to G4 that he'd purchased the corpse of the cat saved by Christopher Reeve in the first Superman flick, had it stuffed and mounted it atop his piano. Impressive. Creepy, but impressive.

  
  

  Posted 09/02/2008 by Thomas

  Related: Superman: The Movie | Wanted | Kick-Ass

Monday, August 25

• McLovin Getting Ready to Kick-Ass!

  The Mark Millar comic Kick-Ass, which has been dubbed too violent for Sony and several other major Hollywood studios, is moving forward as an indie. Christopher Mintz-Plasse -- who showed off his ballistic prowess in Superbad as the thuggish, gun-wielding McLovin -- is in talks to play another heavy. This time a gangster's son. Last week, Nicolas Cage joined the cast.

  Meanwhile: Too violent for Hollywood? What could possibly be too violent for Hollywood? Does Kick-Ass show non-exclusive premium cable distribution deals getting brutally eviscerated, or something similarly horrifying to the average producer? Nope, it's simply about a bunch of really young crimefighters taking on grown-up baddies in Hollywood's usual shoot-first-then-shoot-more-later style.

  
  

  Posted 08/25/2008 by reelz

  Related: Nicolas Cage | Christopher Mintz-Plasse | Kick-Ass | Superbad

Friday, August 22

• Kick-Ass Cage
  

  Director/Producer Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) is making a third stab at the comic book movie genre after dropping out of X-Men 3 (he was replaced by auteur Brett Ratner) and a production halt on the upcoming Thor, which Vaughn had been set to direct. Kick-Ass is based on a comic by Mark Miller about a "high school dweeb" named Dave Liezewski who tries to turn his life around by becoming a superhero. Aaron Johnson (Dummy, The Illusionist) is set to play Liezewski.

  Accoring to The Hollywood Reporter, Nicolas Cage has joined the cast as a former cop who has been training his daughter as a "lethal weapon." Cage joins the aforementioned Johnson as well as Lyndsy Fonseca and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

  Kick-Ass production will start in Toronto this Fall.

  Source: The Hollywood Reporter
  
  
  
  

  Posted 08/22/2008 by Jeff

  Related: Nicolas Cage | Matthew Vaughn | Kick-Ass