Aaron Johnson must get tired of promoting his movies in the wrong order. Kick-Ass, which was first shown to audiences at 2008?s Butt-Numb-A-Thon, wasn’t released until March 2010 – a year after the release of Nowhere Boy, which he filmed after Kick-Ass. Confused yet?
While promoting Nowhere Boy recently, which is just reaching the United States now, Johnson spoke briefly to Movieweb on the status of Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Walls.
His comments follow both comic-book creator Mark Millar and villain Red-Mist‘s assurances that the movie was happening. Despite such talk – and the $100 million it earnt at the box office – however, there has been some debate as to whether filming might take place.
With director Matthew Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman currently at work on X-Men: First Class, Johnson expects filming to commence pending that film’s release. His closing comments, however, were a little less specific.
“I’m letting them just do what they want to do and we’ll come to it when we come to it. But I know that they are doing it.”
All going well, Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall should reach theatres in 2012.

Source: Hey Guys

2012 seems so far away doesn’t it? Hopefully it comes faster, looking forward to more Dave.

I’ve gone and caught up with all of the Aaron appearances that were missing from the gallery. I’ve added a little over 300 images from various events. Below you can see a few with a link to the entire section to see more.

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Aaron Johnson believes it is ”hypocritical” of people to criticise 13-year-old Chloe Moretz for swearing in ‘Kick-Ass’ while allowing them to listen to sexually-charged pop music.

Aaron Johnson has blasted “hypocritical” critics of ‘Kick Ass’.

The 20-year-old actor insists people shouldn’t object to the colourful language used by his 13-year-old co-star Chloe Moretz in the film because the movie came with an adult certification, unlike many raunchy pop songs that are accessible on radio.

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Aaron, held nothing back on what kind of father he’s going to be. His soon to be wife Sam and him had a daughter in July – has spoken out about what kind of dad he intends to be.

Asked what kind of father he’ll be by VMAN mag prior to his tot’s birth, Aaron replied: “A f****** brilliant one, obviously. What kind of question’s that? Just affectionate and loving and supportive.”

And the brutally frank lad didn’t hold back on his thoughts about contemporary movie-making either.

He ranted: “There’s a lot of scripts nowadays that you think, ‘How the f*** does this get made?’

“They’ve turned it all into romcoms and stuff. It’s like our music, it’s all pop. It’s all, like, pretty crummy.”

Aaron credits Sam – who he’s marrying next year – with helping him to stay grounded and avoid the temptations that many young actors fall prey to.

He added: “You can’t do s*** like that, not if you want to work professionally and be taken seriously.

“Don’t turn up to work f***** up, it’s just wrong.

“Just being with Sam, the relationship’s so strong there’s no need to do s*** like that.”
Source: The Sun

We’re sure you’ll be a great father Aaron!

Sorry bout that everyone, I’m really not sure how the Nowhere Boy caps gallery got password protected, but it’s now unpassworded.

Exciting news! It’s official, there will be a Kick-Ass sequel

It was inevitable that Matthew Vaughn’s big-screen version of the John Romita Jr. and Mark Millar comic “Kick-Ass” would get the green light for a sequel. Today it’s been confirmed apparently by Millar himself on a radio station in the UK who claimed that due to the wonderful DVD sales the sequel is a go.

It’s not really a surprise when you think about it. Sure, it didn’t perform incredibly well like people thought it would in the box office, but it seemed destined to be one of those comic book flicks that would find it’s audience on home video. Since this is all up and running, now it’s a matter of the studio bringing back Vaughn and the cast to the new project.

At the moment Matthew Vaughn is in the middle of filming “X-Men: First Class” for 20th Century Fox which acts as a ’60s set prequel, out in theaters on June 3rd, 2011. “Kick-Ass” star Aaron Johnson will be appearing next in Sam Taylor-Wood directed film “Nowhere Boy”. Chloe Moretz is in the middle of filming her role in Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo Cabret” and will be seen in Matt Reeves’ “Let Me In” this October 8th.

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I bring you screencaptures of Aaron’s projects Kick Ass, Nowhere Boy (with huge thanks to Siobhan for capping it for us!) and his small role in The Apocalypse from back in 2002. He was adorable and though it’s only a few captures he did a good job.

Hello everyone, I’m Holly and I’m the new owner of the site. I’ve done some minor changes to the pages and put a new layout up. As you can see, the site is now named Simply Aaron Johnson, the layout was done by Nicole and coded by Mel.

I have a ton of things to add to the gallery, which will be going down for maintance sometime later on this evening at 2 or 3 am pacific time, while I update the script and add new editions. I’m thrilled to be running this site now and look forward to making this your number one source for Aaron again!

Aaron attended the Empire Film Awards in London last Sunday and took home the “Best Newcomer” Award for his role as John Lennon in “Nowhere Boy”, Congrats!