Wanted News

Will there be a Wanted sequel? It's seeming more and more likely.

Graphic novelish Mark Millar recently told Newsarama about his plans for a film follow-up to his Wanted adaptation.

Millar said he would not write a comic book sequel to the original mini series, but would pen original new story lines that fit into the movie's universe. It will also use a few of the elements from the original comics that didn't find their way into the first movie.

"It will be some of the stuff that we didn't utilize from the first book for the movie - like chapters three and four - there will be some stuff from that," said Millar, "so in the loosest sense it will be based on the book, but only very little."

Director Temur Bekmambetov, writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, producer Marc Platt and star James McAvoy have already signed up for the Wanted sequel.

According to Variety, Universal Pictures has resigned Wanted Marc Platt for five years. And one of the producer's first missions?

To get a Wanted sequel up and running.

Platt acknowledged that the creative team is still working on the challenge of continuing the movie's story, considering most of the principal characters - including Angelina Jolie - ended the original in no position for an encore.

However, the film was designed as a potential franchise - and it is still performing strongly, having grossed $192.6 million worldwide.

"The writers are at work already, and those creative discussions are taking place," said Platt about the Wanted sequel.

We know James McAvoy would be back for another Wanted. But can Angelina Jolie be resuscitated for a sequel?

Manohla Dargis, a New York Times film critic who lambasted the Sex and the City movie, has nothing but good things to say about Angelina Jolie in the new action thriller Wanted.

"Ms. Jolie has been perfectly cast as a super-scary, seemingly amoral assassin named (wait for it) Fox," Manohla Dargis writes. "Few American actresses, especially those with such pin-skinny arms, can make beating a guy to the ground look so easy and, yeah, man, like fun."

Earlier today, we published another movie critic's glowing praise for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.

More talk of a Wanted sequel is underway, days before the original premieres on theaters across the country.

Mark Millar - the comic book writer responsible for the Wanted series, on which the upcoming Angelina Jolie movie is based - said on his message boards that a follow-up is already in the planning stages:

Wanted 2 already being planned and they've asked me how I can develop some of the other stuff from the book into the sequel. We'll see what box office is like at the weekend, but everyone knows this is going to make a LOT of dough.

Based on early reviews, there's no denying that. We can't wait to see Wanted.

Angelina Jolie: Nude in Wanted. Need any more reasons to see the movie?

Movie critics cannot always be trusted, of course.

But when so many of them give such glowing reviews to a movie - and when that movie features a scantily clad Angelina Jolie is the role of an assassin - it's bound to catch your attention.

With that in mind, we present the following views on Wanted...

- Wanted has the kind of irresistible summer-movie allure that makes studio executives drool in anticipation. Even its title must swim before their eyes and transform into 'Want-to-See'... -- New York Magazine

- This over-the-top, ultraviolent, hyperkinetic action thriller pretty much has it all... -- Hollywood Reporter

- Like it or not, Wanted pretty much slams you to the back of your chair from the outset and scarcely lets up for the duration... -- Variety

- Possesses a 'wow' factor that will make it one of the summer's biggest hits...an unabashed testosterone-adrenaline cocktail spiced up with a dollop of torture-porn bloodlust... -- One Guy's Opinion

With talk of a Wanted sequel already on the horizon, James McAvoy won't be going anywhere for awhile.

The popular British actor recently spoke to MoviesOnline about the film:

MoviesOnline: Was it a challenge working out for the role?
James McAvoy: It was. I'm glad I did it. I'm glad I did it. There were times where I just wanted to stop and do nothing else. But I had a great trainer called Glen Chapman who was a proper drill sergeant for me. Nice guy but he made me do things that I didn't want to do and he made me sick quite a lot.

James McAvoy is a Wanted man these days.

And it's good though because apart from the physical aesthetic of they wanted their action hero to be a bit more buff and all that, I wouldn't have got through four and a half months had I not be fitter and more healthy and in better shape than I usually am. I think I was capable of doing all the things in the film but not consistently with the high level intensity being sustained over four and a half months.

Because every day was like a 12, 13, maybe 14 hour day and a lot of it was taken up with stunts. That was quite grueling so I needed to be in better shape than I usually am.

MoviesOnline: What was the most grueling stunt?
James McAvoy: There was a lot of wire stuff that ended up getting cut from the film. The whole ending of the film was different. There was a sequence where Morgan and I fall through like four levels of a building that is blowing up as we fall through the levels, fighting each other as we do it. That was four days on wires in a harness having your groin ruptured and that's never fun.

That was probably the most grueling thing, and then to find out that it has been cut out of the film. "Yeah, yeah, it didn't work, wasn't very good. It was really boring." You're like, "What?!" "Yeah, we're reshooting it. We're doing this scene that takes like 20 minutes to film. That will end the film." "What? Is there going to be a harness?" "No." "All right."

Terence Stamp isn't the best known actor in the world - but he's on a roll!

Stamp plays a villain in the upcoming Get Smart, while he also appears alongside a certain beautiful actress in Wanted. We'll let him explain the rest.

"I've got Yes Man coming up with the great Jim Carrey. Tom Cruise and I were blowing up Hitler for a long time in Berlin for Valkyrie," said Stamp, 69, to MTV. "And, I got to say good morning to Angelina Jolie at 7 a.m. every morning on Wanted."

According to a co-star, we'll be seeing a Wanted sequel in the future.

As that bullet-ridden action flick gets ready for a June 27 release, it was Stamp's follow-up quote that truly piqued our interested.

"I play a character who's called Pekwarsky," Stamp said. "He's an enigmatic character who doesn't feature a lot in the first one, but it's something that's written for a sequel."

Indeed, it sounds as though a Wanted sequel is already planned. We'll have to see the original in a couple weeks before we determine if this is a good idea or not.

The soundtrack for Wanted - which stars Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy - is now being previewed at the movie's MySpace page.

The soundtrack will be available to the public June 24. It features an original score by Danny Elfman, plus a new song by Elfman with the composer on vocals.

The adaptation of Mark Millar's graphic novel, Wanted hits theaters on June 27.

Forget the Super Bowl commercials for Bud Light, Pepsi and numerous other products last night.

We were focused on the new movie previews. Among them were Iron Man and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. But we already have trailers for those films on the site.

So here's a look at Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy:

Here's an inside look at the upcoming Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy movie, Wanted.

According to IMDB, it's about a young man (McAvoy) that finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (Morgan Freeman) to follow in his dad's footsteps.

Here are a couple images from the film: