Carrey Wanted For Kick Ass 2

Jim Carrey is being pursued to play a flashy supporting role in the sequel "Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall" reports Deadline.

The Kick-Ass sequel sees Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse return to reprise their roles.

Carrey is wanted to play 'The Colonel' who helps motivate the team of misfit super heroes to assemble and fight evil.

Donald Faison is in talks to play Doctor Gravity a physics professor at Columbia who built a baseball bat-like pole which can make something twenty times its actual weight. In actuality though it is just a baseball bat covered in tin foil. John Leguizamo plays the bodyguard of Red Mist. Yancy Butler ("Witchblade," "Drop Zone") is set to return to reprise her role as the mother of Red Mist. Robert Emms is set to play 'Insect Man' and Morris Chestnut will play Marcus Williams In the comics, Insect Man is a cop who turned into a superhero during the night to "do the stuff he couldn't do in his day job." Marcus is the new stepfather of Hit-Girl.

"Never Back Down" director Jeff Wadlow wrote a script and will direct the pic.

Shooting kicks off in September in Toronto and London.