Kick-Ass Movie Not Gratuitous

From Newsarama:

… the actor says that director Matthew Vaughn “doesn’t want to get gratuitous” with the violence in his Kick-Ass movie.

Cage, who’ll play an ex-cop determined to bring down a drug lord, tells MTV News that Vaughn’s feature will “have a different style” than the Mark Millar-John Romita Jr. comic on which it’s based.

“When I said ‘yes’ to this movie, it was to a script,” Cage says. “Then I started seeing the comics which are pretty far out in terms of violence. But I think Matthew and the script have a different style to it.”

What! That just plain doesn’t make sense. The whole point and appeal of the comic is the over-the-top style—and the fact that children are the protagonists.

I really hope that Cage is speaking out of turn or uninformed. It’s be a shame for Kick-Ass to get sanitized on the way to the screen.