The Kick-Ass sequel sees Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse return to reprise their roles.
Emms is set to play 'Insect Man' and 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.
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.
"Never Back Down" director Jeff Wadlow wrote a script and will direct the pic.
Shooting kicks off in September in Toronto and London.
Meantime the site also reports that Chestnut has landed a lead role in the indie thriller "The Hive".
Set against the backdrop of a 911 call center where Halle Berry plays an emergency operator who must face her own fears in order to save a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) from a disturbed killer (Michael Eklund).
Brad Anderson ("The Machinist," "Transsiberian") calls action on the film from a script by Rich D'Ovidio.
Justina Machado, Tara Platt, Evie Thompson, David Otunga, and Michael Linstroth also star.
Robert Stein, Jeff Graup and Michael Helfant are producing the movie.
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