The more money the film generates from their support, the more it helps their career. I don't know if it says in the contract or not either, but promoting a film IS almost ALWAYS in an actors best interest. He may be back-pedaling, but I mean come on, the guy is just an actor, he's not running for congress or something.Īnd don't moan about any damage to the film's crew/profits etc, the only thing that's going to happen because of this is marginally MORE publicity.ĮDIT: Not telling /u/Garrand to stop moaning, just the thread comments in general so far. It's fickle, sure, but end of the day he doesn't want to romanticize violence anymore, or at least he doesn't want to be linked to this kind of ultra-violent film. The screenplay may have been finished 18 months ago, but it seems Sandy Hook was a life changing event for him, so just let him be. The questions became to difficult to answer, so now I guess he doesn't want to do any more interviews, hence the statement that he won't support the movie.
The questions must have come up in a few interviews by now, asking how he can star in a movie like this, and yet claim to be a pacifist. He has a right to voice his opinion, and I guess he believes his ideals and (maybe more importantly) the potential damage to his anti-violence/pacifist image, make it worth coming out with this opinion. The two just don't gel hand-in-cold-dead-hand. Probably just trying to distance himself from a pretty violent movie after touting himself as a gun reform activist. Millar has stated the film is not titled Kick Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, as some rumours had it.I don't think this is it. Moretz, now 15, will reprise the role in Kick-Ass 2, alongside fellow returnees Aaron Johnson as Kick-Ass and Christopher Mintz-Plasse as villain Red Mist.Īccording to Wadlow, the film is set to begin shooting in four days' time, for cinema release next June. It was a critical and box-office success, though the character Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz), an 11-year-old masked vigilante who uses bad language and kills criminals, upset some conservative commentators.
The first Kick-Ass film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, a Brit who helped fund the film's $28m budget himself to avoid going through the studio system. Those comments reference, respectively, Carrey's roles in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask, and a spat with Steven Spielberg in 1995 that ended with the director praising the Canadian actor.ĭeadline previously said that Carrey, who is a big fan of the first film and has appeared in public wearing Kick-Ass's outfit, might take a small role in the sequel. Millar later tweeted that the actor playing Colonel Stars "lives with 200 raccoons and parrots, owns the mask of Loki and named by Spielberg as a genius". Alrighty f'n then," tweeted Wadlow, using one of Carrey's catchphrases. "6 days till we start shooting… and we officially have our Colonel. The film's director, Jeff Wadlow, and the writer of the original comic, Mark Millar, have each dropped heavy hints via Twitter that Carrey will play a new character, Colonel Stars, an ex-thug who sets up the superhero team Justice Forever. Jim Carrey is set to cameo in the forthcoming sequel to the superhero comedy Kick-Ass.