Crazy comic-book sequel KICK-ASS 2 is released in the cinemas in August and Jim Carrey, who co-stars as Colonel Stars & Stripes, has had a change of heart about the tone of the film. Late last night he took to twitter to denounce the amount of violence in the action-comedy caper. He cites the tragic events in December involving the horrific shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff.
This is sure to reignite the debate surrounding movie and video-game violence and it’s affect on society and puts into doubt Carrey’s involvement in the contracted publicity campaign in the film.
I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013
I meant to say my apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013
Creator of the graphic novel and the films producer Mark Millar hit back with the following statement:
[I’m] baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn’t in the screenplay eighteen months ago. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called KICK-ASS 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much… This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorcese [sic] and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-Wook Park,Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless body-count of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence… Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can’t be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action-movie.
KICK ASS 2 is released 16th August and co-stars stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Morris Chestnut, Nicolas Cage, Donald Faison, Lyndsy Fonseca, Clark Duke, Lindy Booth, John Leguizamo, Yancy Butler, and Jim Carrey (we think).
Source: Jim Carrey/Mark Millar
