Producers are making a Wanted sequel, Wanted 2
Do you remember the 2008 Angelina Jolie action thriller Wanted? The movie that featured bullet-bending and teaching the world that anyone can transition from a cubicle worker to a ruthless assassin? Well, if you were a fan of the original, producers are ramping production for a sequel, Wanted 2.
But, it begs the question, in Wanted, all of the members of the Fraternity Wesley died at the end of the movie, who will the movie feature? Didn’t Fox, Angelina’s character, kill off the entire Fraternity, and herself? And then, later, Wesley kills Sloan, the misguided leader of the Fraternity, played by Morgan Freeman.
So what will happen? With two major actors removed from the movie, what will happen in the sequel. The movie’s original producer revealed that a sequel was never a plan.
“We have a script that’s getting pretty good,” Platt explained. “To do a sequel when it wasn’t really set up for a sequel-one of our main characters dies in it. You don’t want to just retread a similar story, but when we get the script to a certain bar, there will be a sequel. It’s taken a while because it’s challenging, as I said, because we lost a main, main character, so where that James McAvoy character goes now… we have good ideas though. It’s coming along”
That sounds pretty vague, but it looks like it may be interesting.
Mark Millar, the creator of the comic that the movie is loosely based around, influenced the first movie’s script’s tone and overall feel. He is attached to the second movie as well, but in a limited capacity. According to Chris Platt, he won’t be in charge of the script-writing process but will have input.
He’s always going to be involved but he’s not going to write the screenplay which is far along,” he explained. “As I said, but he’s always going to be involved because the tone he puts forth is so much his tone and I think the film captured the dark humor of his really well.”
Many people were upset with Millar for selling the comic book rights to a movie studio instead of demanding more creative control. Because, the movie may have been more different if it had fallen more in line with the comics. For example, Milllar wanted Eminem to play the lead role in the movie along side, Halle Berry instead of Angelina Jolie.
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