Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Carrey said "I did Kick-Ass 2 a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to others involve[d] with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart."
Shortly after, the comic's creator and film's executive producer Mark Millar responded via his blog:
"[I'm] baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn’t in the screenplay eighteen months ago. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin. A sequel to the picture that gave us HIT-GIRL was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much. My books are very hardcore, but the movies are adapted for a more mainstream audience and if you loved the tone of the first picture you're going to eat this up with a big, giant spoon. Like Jim, I'm horrified by real-life violence (even though I'm Scottish), but Kick-Ass 2 isn't a documentary. No actors were harmed in the making of this production! This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorsese and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless body-count of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the CONSEQUENCES of violence, whether it's the ramifications for friends and family or, as we saw in the first movie, Kick-Ass spending six months in hospital after his first street altercation. Ironically, Jim's character in Kick-Ass 2 is a Born-Again Christian and the big deal we made of the fact that he refuses to fire a gun is something he told us attracted him to the role in the first place."
Millar also spends a lot space praising Carrey's performance in the film.
The Kick-Ass sequel from writer/director Jeff Wadlow sees Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse return to reprise their roles.
Donald Faison is set 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. Jim Carrey is going to play 'The Colonel' who helps motivate the team of misfit super heroes to assemble and fight evil. Lindy Booth ("Dawn of the Dead," "Wrong Turn") is going to play Night Bitch one of the new heroes who are part of the team called Justice Forever. They quickly get in over their heads when an organized crime group they're antagonizing want revenge. Nicolas Cage might be putting his suit back on for a flashback
Kick-Ass 2 will arrive in theaters on August 16th.
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