During an exclusive chat at last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con, teen actress Chloe Moretz, a.k.a. Kick-Ass’s Hit Girl, gave us the skinny on her future projects.
Following the release of the upcoming remake Let Me In, Moretz will next be seen in Hugo Cabret. “It’s a Martin Scorsese project,” she said. “It’s his first 3D film and it’s with Asa Butterfield playing Hugo Cabret, me playing Isabel, and Sir Ben Kingsley playing my father, [and] Sir Christopher Lee. There’s a lot of different people in it and it’s a really amazing film.”
Moretz called the Oscar-winning filmmaker “fabulous. I’m still working on it. I’m actually going to be there until late November so we’re still doing it.”
As for Kick-Ass 2, all Moretz could say was, “We don’t know yet right now. Matthew Vaughn is actually doing X-Men right now.”
She may not be kicking criminal ass again anytime soon, but Moretz still has a pretty full dance card coming up. “I do have a couple films that I am about to work on. I’m doing Old St. Louis, which we’re working out dates on, with David O. Russell directing and Vince Vaughn, he’s in it,” she said over a cup of coffee. “And this is Vince Vaughn’s kind of labor of love. He’s been working on it about eight years now and he’s really been working at it.”
Deadline reported today Old St. Louis is about a traveling salesman who reconnects with his estranged daughter, and that “actresses including Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz have been mentioned as possibles to play the daughter.” Given her aforementioned comments, it appears that Moretz has indeed already won the role.
“I also have a film with Karen Kusama, who did Jennifer’s Body, and she’s doing this film called The Rut, which is this really amazing, amazing role. And I also have a film with Derick Martini called Hick, which is based off the novel Hick.”
The Los Angeles Times says The Rut “concerns a father-daughter relationship and centers particularly on hunting, as a daughter must learn the tricks of hunting and archery taught to her by her father after said father goes missing.”
Taylor Lane Productions says Hick “follows 13 year old Lulli McMullen, a Nebraska teen who gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas. Part coming-of-age story and part raggedy picaresque, Hick leads us at a blinding pace down broken roads through a world thats seems to this extraordinary and indomitable young girl, dangerously uncharted.” The book’s author, Andrea Portes, also penned the screenplay adaptation.
Let Me In opens October 1.
(via IGN)
Chloe attended Comic-Con to promote Let Me In, where new footage was released and a Q&A panel with the cast and crew was conducted. Check out new pics in the gallery:
You’ll find a detailed description of the shown footage from UGO here. Check out the brand new trailer posted by MTV:
According to Chloe’s brother, Trevor, Chloe confirmed that she will be in the new film The Rut and announced her current negotiations for the film Old St. Louis. From Trevor’s Twitter:
The announcement are 1) She is in negotiations to be in a new Dramedy directed by David O’Russell and co-starring Vince Vaughn called ‘Old St. Louis’ one of the best scripts we’ve read all year. There are scheduling problems bit we are working them out. 2) She will be starring in a new film called ‘The Rut’ directed by Karyn Kusama,director of Jennifer’s Body, that my Mother and I are Executive Producing under our Treetop Productions banner, it’s a stunning drama that will show an amazingly vulnerable and independent side of Chloe.
A new poster for Let Me In has been released in preparation for Comic-Con this weekend.
Chloe will be a part of Entertainment Weekly’s “Girls Who Kick Ass” panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, along with actresses Jena Malone, Anna Tov, Adrianne Palicki, Ellen Wong, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
The panel will be on Friday, July 23, from 4-5 pm in Hall H. If you’re attending Comic-Con on Friday, be sure to check it out!
Let Me In will also have a panel featuring a sneak peak of the film and Q&A with the cast and crew on Saturday, July 24, from 1:30-2:30 pm in Hall H.
By almost all accounts, Chloe Moretz is the best reason to see this month’s superhero flick Kick-Ass. Fortunately, us horror fans can look forward to seeing the acting prodigy tackle our favorite genre next, when Moretz stars in the remake of the acclaimed Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In — simply titled Let Me In. Directed by Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves and produced by England’s newly reborn Hammer Studios, the film will see Moretz play Abby, a fully grown vampire who just happens to look like a young girl. Learn what Moretz told us about the film after the jump.
You have a really exciting project coming up, Let Me In. Are you a fan of the original Swedish film, Let the Right One In?
I haven’t seen the whole thing of Let the Right One In, but I’ve seen pieces of it. But yeah, it’s definitely exciting. It’s a different side of a vampire that a lot of people don’t see. It was a really fun thing to do.
What side do you think we’re gonna see?
Well, it’s the less romantic side of it. I mean, she’s definitely very interesting, very deep. But it’s a side of a vampire that no one sees in that it’s a lot deeper. It’s not glamorous to be a vampire.
What’s it like, the transition from doing Kick-Ass to doing a horror film?
It’s different. I really love doing diverse roles, so doing roles that go from action to thriller to a fantasy film, to a film where I play a street kid — it’s so much different stuff, it’s a lot of exciting stuff. I’m very blessed and privileged.
So not only do you brawl, you bite?
[Laughs.] Yep, brawl and bite.
Can you say how your vampire may differ from the original film’s vampire?
Well, you know, in the original film you see a different side of a vampire, right? It’s a side that people don’t see. And she’s almost kind of romantic in the film, she’s more romantic. So I drew from her character a lot, but I took more of a less romantic, more crestfallen… It’s not a cool thing. It’s a burden. It’s something that, it isn’t good to be a vampire. It’s not so beautiful, it isn’t romantic. It’s not like, “I’m cold, but I’m really cool, because everyone likes me – I’m a vampire.”
Like Twilight?
I’m not gonna go there. [Laughs.] But yeah, I just like showing a different side of it. A side that people don’t see.
Do you think it will be a scarier, darker film?
It’s pretty terrifying when you see me turn into a vampire. That’s all I can say. It’s definitely terrifying.
In real life, what’s your greatest fear?
Snakes, spiders and flies.
(via FearNet)
