From Dr. Turk to Doctor GravityThe man best known to many flick fans as Murray from Clueless – and to many more TV fans as Dr. Turk from Scrubs – is set to star as Doctor Gravity in the upcoming Kick-Ass 2, with a new banner (below) also being released today via Collider.
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Though not full confirmed by the studio, the one-time 'Guy Love' singer has been earmarked to play the character, who appears in Mark Millar's Kick-Ass 2 graphic novel.
For anyone who hasn't read it yet, Doctor Gravity is a man who claims to be a physics professor at Columbia University, armed with a baseball bat-like device called the "Gravity Pole" which can increase the weight of certain objects.
Whether this is actually the case, readers of the graphic novel will be able to explain, but for those of us who haven't just yet, let's just say that as ever with the Kick-Ass universe, not all is as it seems.
Faison's potential casting comes after the news that John Leguizamo will play Javier, the bodyguard assigned to protect Red Mist (Mintz-Plasse) as he plots his evil rise to power.
Though Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nic Cage are set to return to the Kick-Ass fold, the director of the original, Matthew Vaughn, is going to be in a supervisory role with Jeff Wadlow (Never Back Down, Cry_Wolf) writing and directing.
Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall – as its full title reads – is set for a late 2013 release date.
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