New KICK-ASS posters
Last week at Austin’s annual geekfest Butt-Numb-A-Thon, KICK-ASS premiered to a tremendous response; the general public won’t get a look at it until APRIL 16th, but until then we’re getting brief peeks at its cadre of un-super superheroes. Above you see Nicolas Cage’s “Big Daddy”, and underneath you can see Chloe Moritz as “Hit-Girl”. Having not read the Mark Millar comic, I’m not quite sure how they figure into the story, but I gather they’re father and daughter. Wouldn’t want to date this weird chick, that’s for sure.
KICK-ASS tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name — Kick-Ass — assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There’s only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Comic Book Resources, Millar revealed that the working title for KICK-ASS 2 is BALLS TO THE WALL. That’ll work.
Mel Gibson goes to jail
2010 is the year of image rebuilding for Mel Gibson. He’s got EDGE OF DARKNESS coming out in January, he’s shooting the comedic film THE BEAVER with Jodie Foster, and now he’s lined up HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION, which will reunite him with the principle crew of APOCALYPTO (a really solid film, if you haven’t yet seen it).
SUMMER VACATION centers on a career criminal who gets caught by Mexican authorities and is sent to a drug- and crime-filled prison where he learns how to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy… Despite the title and odd synopsis, the flick is being called an action-drama. Knowing Mel, it’ll be bloody as a damn giallo.
Production in Mexico begins in March.
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 3 BTS video/DVD cover
We’ve been writing about UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION for so long now, it has begun to feel like one of those movies that will simply never be released. Alas, we’re in luck, as you can see by the official DVD artwork above. It’s a photoshop frenzy, but what isn’t nowadays? To help prepare you, we have a brief behind-the-scenes video showing some gun-firing and ass-kicking. It’ll have to do until the flick hits DVD and Blu-Ray on FEBRUARY 2nd. (Question: Are they saying “meow meow meow” on the soundtrack in the video?)
Wolfboy goes DIE HARD
Taylor Lautner would seem to be an unlikely person to pop up here in the Action Round-Up; after all, all he’s really known for is playing a shirt-hating werewolf with an inclination for pouty babes in the TWILIGHT saga. But of course the kid is going to want to shed his teen heartthrob image, sooner rather than later, and so he’s signed up to play his very first action hero. Action junkies, be skeptical.
The project is called CANCUN, and is being described as DIE HARD meets TAKEN. Yes, starring Taylor Lautner… Plot enters on a teen whose injury prevents him from becoming an elite soldier. Rather than pursuing that line of work, he goes to college, meets a girl and goes on spring break in Cancun. While there, his friends are kidnapped and held for ransom in exchange for the release of a drug cartel leader who’s about to be extradited. Lautner’s character uses his martial arts training to save them.
Of course it’s more than likely that this will end up rated PG-13 – with Lautner ripping his shirt off at the first sign of danger – but we can still probably look forward to bikinis and pretty location, right?
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