I Wanna ‘Kick-Ass’, Too At SXSW!!!

Movies — January 6, 2010 at 13:49 — 2 comments  

It’s been announced today that Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, based on the Marvel/Icon comic mini-series from Mark Milllar and John Romita Jr., has been slated to kick off the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas, having been chosen as the Opening Night film playing on March 12.

Clark Kent says: Sadly enough I have never been to this event, but I’ve lived vicariously through A-OK’s PSo, and his adventures. I’ve been in the traveling spirit as of lately. Who knows… maybe I’ll be there this year. More after the jump.

VIA SHH:

(The film portion of the festival runs through March 21.) The movie recently played as part of the annual Butt-Numb-A-Thon Festival to raves from everyone in attendance.

Kick-Ass is the story of average teen Dave (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero.

His life is forever changed as he inspires a subculture of copy cats, is hunted by assorted violent and unpleasant characters, and meets up with a pair of crazed vigilantes, including Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), and another fledgling superhero, Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). But thanks to the scheming of a local mob boss Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong), that new alliance will be put to the test.

Clark Kent says: ‘Kick-Ass‘ opens theatrically on April 16. You can check out the trailer here.

Tags: chloe grace moretz, christopher mintz-plasse, john romita jr., mark millar, matthew vaughn, nicolas cage