Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of James Gunn’s upcoming superhero flick, “Super,” which is filming in Louisiana through to January.
Starring Rainn Wilson as Frank D’Arbo who eventually becomes superhero Crimson Bolt, the film is described by Gunn as “an independent fable about a lost man who attempts to become something more.” The story itself is evidently catalyzed as Bacon’s drug-dealing villain Jacques, who Gunn notes is “the nicest supervillain you’d ever want to meet,” steals D’Arbo’s wife, Sarah, played by Liv Tyler. Ellen Page, meanwhile, co-stars as “a slightly eccentric girl who works at a comic book store who really wants to be [Wilson’s] sidekick.“
Gunn’s website also informs us that “Super” is being shot with the RED camera; features three actors from Gunn’s “Slither,” four from his debut feature “Tromeo And Juliet,” one from “Scooby Doo” and one from “The Wire”; and that his series of shorts “PG Porn”— described as being “for people who love everything about porn…except the sex” — can still be seen at Spike.
