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Jim Carrey Cast In 'Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall'
Jim Carrey may have said adios to the 'Dumb and Dumber' sequel, but that hardly means he's retreating from showbiz altogether. The actor/comedian has just landed a role in Jeff Wadlow's 'Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall.' He will play The Colonel (aka Colonel Stars), a founding member of the Justice Forever organization that will feature prominently in the sequel's plot. The Colonel used to work for John Genovese, the main villain in the first book who was renamed Frank D'Amico in Matthew Vaughn's film. He and Lieutenant Stripes left Genovese's operation prior to Kick-Ass and Hit Girl taking it all down. Carrey was offered the part last month, but it was unclear whether he would accept. Mark Millar had this to say about Carrey's casting...
"Matthew Vaughn, Jeff Wadlow and I did a conference call with Jim a couple of weeks back and we've been itching to talk about this ever since because the energy Jim's going to bring to Colonel Stars has me buzzing as much as Nic Cage with Big Daddy."
I'm not sure how to feel about this. I recognize that Carrey is a solid actor, and he's turned in some great performances in the past. However, he's had a long run of lackluster projects that has sort of excised him from favor with many film-goers. I liked 'I Love You Phillip Morris' quite a bit, but things like 'Yes Man,' 'Mr. Popper's Penguin's,' and 'The Number 23' create a dizzying array of awful. It's really the excitement Millar has for Carrey coming aboard that instills optimism in me. Millar makes a good point about the comedic elements Nicolas Cage brought to Big Daddy, and that quickly became one of my favorite of Cage's long catalog of characters. I just hope Carrey is able to artfully walk the line between comedy and a more grounded performance.
What do you guys think? Is Jim Carrey the right choice for The Colonel?
Source: Millar World
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Comment by Hot Fuzz Fan on September 9, 2012 at 11:22am -
I'm just disapointed that nic cage can't come back for this movie
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Comment by hewylewis on September 7, 2012 at 1:31pm
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Sweet!!
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Comment by BLAM! on September 7, 2012 at 10:02am -
Honestly I actually enjoyed Number 23 and Yes Man..... Mr. Popper's Penguins however, I'm not even going to touch that crap.
I don't know about all that hipster vs geek mumbo jumbo, if it's Mark Millar's own personal wank material then let him wank off to it. I'm pretty sure Stephen King admitted that several of his books were made just for his own sake and not with some higher hope of somehow changing the world. I'll take this over watching Stephanie Meyers, Suzanne Collins, and E.L. James Lesbian AfterBirth.
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Comment by Lord Henry Wotton on September 7, 2012 at 9:04am -
I personally preferred the original comic over the first movie. I know once again they are going to remove the most objectionable bits of the comic and turn it in to another wacky anti superhero film. After watching Super I feel like this sub genre of superhero movies has been perfected.
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Comment by Gift of the Magi on September 7, 2012 at 1:59am -
@Nigel: Umm...no...it never works that way. The haters will NOT be there, or the family crowds, or people of good taste. Kick-Ass did well, but it wasn't a monstrous success...it just did well with a limited budget.
I personally rented Kick-Ass because I thought the comic and Millar were crap, but wanted to give the film at least a try to impress me. It failed. Even though some of the stupid from the comic was toned down, it was still a steaming piece of crap with few high points and characters I wanted to see dead. All of them.
Kick-Ass 2 is by far even more offensive and a better FUCK YOU to any comic fan that ever lived. It is the hipster deconstruction of fandom, geeks, human beings, superheroes, heroes in general, doing good, reason and anything decent. Millar has proven over and over how much he HATES superheroes and the idea of heroics.
So yeah, I will not be there, the label 'hater' being applied or not. If you do see it and like it...well...that says a lot about you.
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Comment by Nigel on September 7, 2012 at 12:28am -
Guaranteed all the haters here will be in the theater first day of Kick Ass 2's release.
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Comment by TheBoneMage on September 7, 2012 at 12:09am -
And that might not work as there's things that are obviously different, namely:
Kick-ass' dad in the movies is noticeably overweight
Red mist might not kill the kids(since I don't think that will go over well with the parents that get easily offended like the ones who want to change PARANOMAN'S RATING)
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Comment by TheBoneMage on September 6, 2012 at 11:10pm
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Actually choker this may be changed in ways (much like the original kick-ass) they've already confirmed they cut the rape.
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Comment by Arsène Lupin the Third on September 6, 2012 at 10:42pm -
His clint eastwood impression back in his stand up and sketch comedy days would be perfect for this role. Also it being jim could hopefully bring a unique edge.
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Comment by Charmingman93 on September 6, 2012 at 7:31pm -
I loved Kickass 1 and I'd love to see this one, however people shouldn't judge Jim Carey based on those films. I mean look at Robert De Niro, he's been in a run of AWFUL films, he was in all the Fockers films, and New Years day among others, of he joined this film everyone would be over the moon. ROBERT FUCKING DE NIRO IN NEW YEARS DAY. At least some of those movies Carrey was in was for kids anyway, so we adults don't have to enjoy them.
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