Woody Harrelson, Arthur Poppington/Defendor in Defendor
"Yeah, I did this movie called Defendor and I was really excited because Sony picked it up in Toronto, and it's a wonderful movie. I love the movie. I get the feeling it's not gonna get much play, though."
Mark Millar, creator Kick-Ass
On why Dave "Kick-Ass" Lizewski is the natural evolution of superheroes:
"There's never been a superhero comic set in the real world. Watchmen begins in the real world, but by page 20 there's still a giant blue guy walking around. Even Batman has bullet-proof morphing cloaks.
"You can draw a straight line from the golden age of comics to Kick-Ass. In the 1930s, you had the one-dimensional billionaire playboy, Bruce Wayne. You didn't even know what his favourite drink was. In the Sixties, Stan Lee re-invented superheroes and gave them a second dimension, so you have an alcoholic hero like Tony Stark [aka Iron Man], or a hero who can't pay his bills and worries about his schoolwork, like Peter Parker.
"Dave Lizewski is a three-dimensional hero, a guy who plays World of Warcraft every night and whacks off to internet porn, just like a normal person. Over 70 years there's been a gradual drift to realism, and we're now showing superheroes as real people for the first time."