Comic-Con 2010: Super footage unveiled

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Comic-Con 2010: Move over Kick-Ass , James Gunn is in town, and he’s brought his own ‘real life superhero’ story with him.

The Slither director showed off the first trailer for his new film Super today – in fact, it’s so new that the excerpt was “unmixed, uncoloured and untimed”, according to Gunn.

Not that we noticed. Revealing Rainn Wilson as a man whose wife leaves him, the trailer tracks his transformation into vigilante superhero Crimson Bolt as he attempts to win her back.

It also gave us a glimpse of Ellen Page going goofy (in a wannabe superhero role that should earn her a fair amount of chuckles), while Nathan Fillion’s Holy Avenger proved the most popular – a cross-dressing supervillain replete with dodgy wig.

As racuous as you might expect considering those involved, this looks meaner than cousin Kick-Ass - a fact confirmed by the bit where Page blows up a dodgy type by chucking a stick of dynamite at him...

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.