Kick-Ass is a comic book by Mark Millar which is being adapted by Matthew Vaughn, the director behind Layer Cake.  Vaughn wanted to make something ultraviolent and faithful to the source material, but when he first took the project to Sony, they acted like total snatches about it.  So he was all like “whatever” and raised $30 million for it himself.  Newsarama recently visited the set and broke these first official stills of Aaron Johnson looking like some kind of gimp ninja.

For readers of the mini-series concerned that the Matthew Vaughn-directed movie will water down its violence, language, or dark tones, fear not. A recent trip to the Toronto set found a costume clad Dave defending a badly beaten victim from three blood thirsty attackers.

To further prove the film will stay faithful to its source material, the producers whipped out a laptop to showcase a sequence where the young Hit Girl cocks a gun in a thug’s mouth and systematically blasts her other weapon wielding adversaries through his cheek before somersaulting into an even more aggressive attack mode.

I’m pretty excited about this, but I admit it could just be a reaction to reading young girl, cock, thug mouth, and gun in the same sentence.  Also, if she could gun rape someone, it’d really make my day.