Written by Millar and drawn by John Romita Jr., the story, from Marvel Comics’ Icon imprint, centres on a high school dweeb named Dave Lizewski who decides to become a superhero even though he has no athletic ability or coordination. Things change when he runs into real bad guys with real weapons.
Johnson plays the dweeb and title character and Fonseca plays the object of the teen’s infatuation, who believes that Dave is gay. Cage takes the role of a former cop who wants to bring down a druglord and has trained his daughter (Chloe Moretz) to be a lethal weapon. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad) is also in the cast.
Vaughn and his Marv Films partner Kris Thykier are producing the feature, which is being financed independently because many studios balked at the bloody nature of the material.
Johnson had a blink-and-you-missed-it cameo as a kiddie Charlie Chaplin in Shanghai Knights. He went on to star in The Thief Lord and is one of the stars of Gurinder Chadha’s teen comedy-drama Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
In addition to How I Met Your Mother, Fonseca is known for her work on TV’s Big Love and Desperate Housewives. Cage next appears in the crime drama Bangkok Dangerous.
Axe falls on Fifty Dead Men screening
Canadian distributor TVA Films recenty cancelled a press screening for Kari Skogland’s British spy drama Fifty Dead Men Walking, that stars Ben Kingsley and Rose McGowan. It is slated to have its world premiere on September 10 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The distributor cited “a print problem.” But the cancellation came on the same day that the biopic’s main subject, former IRA infiltrator Martin McGartland, threatened legal action against the Canadian-British co-production to stop the festival bow on grounds that the feature infringes his moral rights.
Skogland adapted McGartland’s 1998 book of the same name for his feature, which portrays an IRA mole named Marty who provided information to Britain’s Special Branch before his cover was blown in 1991.
“The film is an entirely false and distorted account of what took place,” McGartland said in a statement issued last Friday, adding that he was “reserving all my legal rights and remedies in this matter.”
The film’s producers, Brightlight Pictures of Vancouver and Future Films in London and Toronto festival organisers could not be reached for comment.
Trio of actors get Demoted
Sean Astin, Celia Weston and Sara Foster are being promoted to work alongside Michael Vartan and David Cross in the independent feature comedy Demoted. The film centres on two tire salesmen (Astin, Vartan) who delight in playing cruel pranks on their co-worker (Cross). When the victim unexpectedly becomes their boss, he places the humiliated duo in secretarial jobs.
Foster will play the wife of Astin’s character, who’s tricked into believing he was promoted. Weston will play the head secretary, who inspires the best friends to plot their revenge.
J.B. Rogers (American Pie 2) will direct from a screenplay by Dan Callahan. Astin (Lord of the Rings) is filming Stay Cool with Winona Ryder. Foster stars in the November release The Other End Of The Line. Longtime character actress Weston’s credits include Junebug and How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days.
Warner finds Chanel a good fit
Warner Bros. will produce and distribute the French-language Audrey Tautou-starring biopic Coco Before Chanel. House of Chanel art director Karl Lagerfeld has been hired to supervise re-creations of the legendary designer’s attire for the film. Anne Fontaine’s adaptation of Edmonde Charles-Roux’s biography L’irreguliere will focus on Chanel’s early years.
Warner Bros. plans to release the film domestically in 2009. Given the shuttering of its Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures divisions, Chanel will be one of the studio’s first new tests in handling a specialty release.
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