Kick-Ass star and cougar bait Aaron Johnson has been cast as Cyclops in X-Men: First Class, if a tipster to AintItCoolNews is to be believed.

I work in the [REDACTED] and we heard today that Matthew Vaughn found his young Cyclops and it shouldn’t be any surprise because he worked with him before. It’s Aaron Johnson. This is one hundred percent locked at this point. Thought you guys should know.  Call me “Son of Rothman”.

Johnson would join the already cast James McAvoy as Professor X and Michael F. Assbender as Magneto.  The “Son of Rothman” is a reference to Fox chief Tom Rothman, and although AICN doesn’t name their source, they say he or she is reliable.  Meanwhile, last we heard from Johnson, he was calling people who had approached him with superhero roles “stupid” and “uncreative.“  So maybe it’s not true.  Ugh.  Look, I’m fine with reporting the cast once they actually announce it, but speculating on which kid will play a guy in spandex who shoots lasers from his eyes hurts my soul.  In related news, Johnson’s 43-year-old baby mama just dropped a load of baby out her vag.  Ah, the miracle of life.

Artist Sam Taylor-Wood has given birth to a little girl – her first child with her toy boy fiance, actor Aaron Johnson. The acclaimed British artist turned film director, 43, gave birth to Wylda Rae yesterday with her 20-year-old lover by her side.
Mr Johnson, who recently appeared in the critically lauded film, Kick-Ass, lives with Miss Taylor-Wood and her daughters, 13-year-old Angelica and five-year-old Jessie, in an £11 million north London townhouse.
It is believed that she was able to afford the huge property without a mortgage as part of her 2008 divorce settlement from art dealer Jay Jopling, who is said to have a fortune of £100million. ($151.5 million). [DailyMail]

Ah, so now the truth comes out, she’s not just older, she’s rich.  Oh, Aaron Johnson’s crazy for dating a 43-year-old, all right.  Crazy like a boner fox.

Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson is only 19.  Sam Taylor-Wood, who directed him in the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, is 42.  But that didn’t stop him from knocking her up.  It’s kinda weird, but kinda impressive, considering the only thing I could’ve knocked up when I was 19 was my roommate’s socks.  She must have really strong kegels.

Young film star Aaron Johnson and divorced director Sam Taylor-Wood yesterday [in January] announced they are expecting their first child. The couple, who met when Sam, 42, cast Aaron, 19, as John Lennon in her feature film Nowhere Boy, have been engaged since October.
A spokesman for the pair said: “We can confirm that Sam is pregnant with her and Aaron’s first child. Both are very, very happy.”
Artist-turned-director Sam has daughters Angelica, 12, and Jessie, three, from her 11-year marriage to Jay Jopling, which ended in 2008.  Art dealer Jay, 46, has been linked with Lily Allen, 24. [MirrorUK - thanks to Zak for the tip]

Jeez, I would’ve thought one of the advantages of banging a 42-year-old was that at least she couldn’t get pregnant.  She must have a very youthful womb.  Which is what I look for in a woman (they complain about the speculum being cold, but it’s worth it).  In any case, I hope the baby doesn’t mind breast feeding from two white flags that say “Bang.”

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According to my exhaustive research (*pantomimes glug glug, wank wank*), British actor Aaron Johnson was a relative unknown before landing the lead in Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass.  But if there’s one thing Hollywood producers love, it’s cocaine. And if there’s another, it’s a teenage boy covered in spandex. Sadly for them, at just 19 years of age, Johnson already seems to have developed something they lack: taste.  And the ability to form an opinion without a focus group.

At today’s press day for Kick-Ass, Johnson admitted that he’s been approached to play other superhero roles, “stupidly,” in his words. He went on to explain, “Obviously they haven’t got that much of a creative brain when someone else has a movie coming out called Kick-Ass, why would they want to be the next superhero that’s already been done before….” He declined to say which role he’d been offered, but saying “superhero that’s already been done before” definitely further fueled my personal speculation that he’d make a perfect Peter Parker in the Spider-Man reboot– even though Johnson apparently isn’t interested in going that direction.

In a later 1:1 interview Johnson explained to me, “I would play another superhero, but not necessarily soon.” As he puts it, he’s not opposed to superhero movies, particularly since he’s the proud star of one right now, but the single-minded Hollywood mentality that because people play a superhero once, they should do it over and over again. “It’s just ridiculous. Producers just aren’t thinking. It’s why sh*t movies get made.” [CinemaBlend]

I love this kid.  Also, I know I made fun of your slang in the last post, Brits, but credit where credit’s due. “Sh*t” works much better as an adjective than it does as a noun.  Or a food.

Via MySpace, here’s the new poster for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass.  That’s Aaron Johnson, the movie also stars Nic Cage and McLovin Mintz-Plasse.  One of the subplots of the comic book is that Kick-Ass shows up to school covered in bruises, it spawns rumors that he’s a gay prostitute.  I don’t know how much you can say about a poster, but this one’s pretty good as far as not having sunglasses badly Photoshopped onto anyone’s face or a punny tagline that’d make a greeting card writer puke.  Also, I’m not sure what’s up with those boots.  Between those, that haircut, and the two giant dildos he’s carrying, I think he might be a lesbian.

I’m not usually one to get excited about comic book movies because they usually suck, but Kick-Ass sounds, well, kick ass.  First of all, when Matt Vaughn wanted to make it his way — hyperviolent like the source — the studios passed.  So instead of letting them cut its balls off, he secured independent financing and made it himself.  Oh and hey, did I mention it also features Nic Cage doing an Adam West impression and stunts by this guy?  The trailer doesn’t give us much, but from what I know of the project it sounds like if Superbad, Kill Bill, and Nic Cage had a butt baby, and that’s one butt baby I’d give a quaalude and invite over for a photography session.

[hat tip, crotch grab to FilmSchoolRejects for the video]