Aaron Johnson Offered the Lead Role in SAVAGES and ANNA KERENINA
Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson has been offered the lead male role in two upcoming high profile films.
The first is the Oliver Stone film called Savages about "two pals from Laguna Beach pals share the same girlfriend and a thriving business growing and distributing the best-quality pot on the planet. When they resist being muscled by a Mexican drug cartel , the girl is kidnapped and the ransom is every cent they've made for the last five years. They agree to pay but hatch an alternate plan to get her back, get revenge, and then get lost."
He's also up for the lead in a romance film with Keira Knightley called Anna Karenina. This is the adaptation of the Tolstoy classic tragic love story that tells "of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness."
Savages shoots in June, and Anna Kerenina shoots in the fall, so if Johnson wants to make both films it looks like he can. Johnson is a great young actor, I know most of you know him from Kick-Ass, but he also played John Lennon in the film Nowhere Boy, which I thought was fantastic. Johnson is definitely a rising star in the film industry, and it's looking like he's going to start getting more big offers.