Nicolas Cage Will 'Kick-Ass' for Matthew Vaughn

Say what you want about Nic Cage, the guy still gets some pretty high-profile gigs. Even after Wicker Man. Case in point: The Hollywood Reporter says that Cage has joined the cast of director Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of Kick-Ass, the uber-violent Mark Millar comic. Earlier in the week, it was revealed that McLovin would also be in the cast. Today, we're also learning that British kid actor Aaron Johnson will play the lead role in Kick-Ass, a high school nerd named Dave who wants to become a superhero despite his obvious lack of the requisite abilities and powers. Lyndsy Fonseca, who you may know as the daughter from How I Met Your Mother, will play Dave's love interest. As for Cage, he'll play "a former cop who wants to bring down a druglord and has trained his daughter (11-year-old Chloe Moretz) to be a lethal weapon." I'm a little gun shy about Cage in a comic book movie after Ghost Rider, but as long as we stay away from the digital manscape he showed off in that pile of crap, we should be OK. What do you need to know about Kick-Ass that its unforgettable title doesn't already tell you? How about this: The project is so violent and graphic that it's being produced independently out of necessity. Yep, studios wouldn't touch it. I don't think that's a bad thing. Very often, studios tend to water down comic book movies (*cough* The Punisher), so with Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust) directing and co-producing, this could be not only a faithful reproduction but one with a lot more pop than it might have if it had gone through the usual channels.

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[Lost Wilson]

After Wicker Man, producers everywhere had a conference call. The details of that call are still classified. However, all who were involved left the meeting with one message that was perfectly clear: find this man some quality roles...He's too good for excrement like this.

After all, Nick Cage is...A National Treasure.

[MRPigg]

I just saw the trailer for Bankok Dangerous this morning, and I honestly thought it was fake like from the beginning of Tropic Thunder.
Turns out it's a real movie. Yikes.