The creative team behind the sequel to the hit superhero comedy have hinted that the Canadian actor will play a new character, Colonel Stars
Jim Carrey is set to cameo in the forthcoming sequel to the superhero comedy Kick-Ass. 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.
"6 days till we start shooting… and we officially have our Colonel. Alrighty f'n then," tweeted Wadlow, using one of Carrey's catchphrases. Millar later tweeted that the actor playing Colonel Stars "lives with 200 raccoons and parrots, owns the mask of Loki and [was] named by Spielberg as a genius". 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.
Deadline 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.
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. 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. 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.
According to Wadlow, the film is set to begin shooting in four days' time, for cinema release next June. Millar has stated the film is not titled Kick Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, as some rumours had it.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/04/jim-carrey-kick-ass-2
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