Oh man. After the jump, I’ve got the red-band trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, and I think I’m in love.  It features then 11-year-old Chloe Moretz as foul-mouthed Hit-Girl, who’s fond of using the F and C words.  Hey, I love the C word!  And 11-year-olds!

Kick-Ass tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to become a real-life superhero. He chooses a new name — Kick-Ass — assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There’s only one problem: Kick-Ass has no superpowers. His life changes forever as he inspires a subculture of copy cats, is hunted by assorted  unpleasant characters, and meets up with the Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and a pair of crazed vigilantes, including an 11-year-old sword-wielding dynamo, Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz) and her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage). [IGN]

It also features her shooting bad guys through another bad guy’s mouth, severed limbs, and instead of a sh-tty rap rock soundtrack, we get The Dickies covering the Banana Splits theme.  See?  This is what happens when you don’t let a studio f-ck up your idea.  Nic Cage’s forehead skin even seems like it’s loosening to near-normal levels.  It’s a Christmas miracle!

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I have high hopes for Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass.  That would make two Nic Cage movies that I loved in as many years, so if it does happen, I hope I don’t start puking rainbows and lactating spiders.  Anyway, this is Christopher McLovin Mintz-Plasse as his alter ego, “Red Mist.”  Red Mist can’t read your mind, but he can kick your ass.  Red Mist is also the reason my dog growls at my girlfriend when she’s menstruating.  I make her sleep outside during that time now.  What?  It’s totally cool, I bought her a special dogloo for it.

[go over to AICN for the 6000-pixels-tall version of this, because a rational person would totally want that]

Common and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin) do a summarized version of  Training Day in this video, made by the same folks who made the Dirty Dancing reenactment Vince posted a couple weeks ago.  McLovin plays the Denzel Washington role, of course.  I hope you find this entertaining.  Believe it or not, I do try to do some good in the community.

~ robopanda [video source]

This new Icarus Cage picture is either a publicity still from Kick-Ass, OR, was taken after Cage picked up a little girl off the street and was all, “Hey, little girl.  What say I make us some tea* and then I show you where I keep the gatling gun?”  Dude, that’s my move!

*It’s Rape tea.

[via Hitfix, couple more pics there]

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.