Here are the 20 Crazy Details Behind The Making of Wanted. Wanted The smash limited series by Mark Millar ( CIVIL WAR), JG Jones ( 52), Paul Mounts ( THE ULTIMATES) is back in print with a brand new painted cover Everyman Wesley Gibson just discovered that his father is dead and that he is in line to take his place in a secret fraternity of super villains.

However, over the course of its production, many can’t help but notice some interesting details leading up to, and following, its release. Even after ten years following its release, it retains a positive reputation among fans of the sci-fi genre. With so many inspiring themes, its no wonder that Wanted became the 18 th highest grossing film of 2008. From there he is given the opportunity to develop his potential and explore a new path through which to forge his own destiny. One day, a female assassin named Fox approaches him and reveals that his father is a member of a secret order of assassins.įrom there, Wesley’s life turns upside down, and he breaks out of the repetitive cycle of his everyday life.

Unlike most superhero movies, Wanted follows the life of Wesley Gibson, an everyday office drone prone to anxiety attacks, as he suffers under the abuse of his boss, while his girlfriend sleeps with his best friend. With the help of comic book writer Mark Millar, the two ended up creating the cinematic masterpiece, Wanted. However, movie director Timur Bekmambetov made the decision to produce a film that breaks this repetitive cycle. From the triumph of good vs evil, to heroes fighting in colorful costumes, such aspects have become general expectations for this type of genre. As he says at the end, “it changes every day” and there’s a chance that Universal haven’t quite decided what to do as of yet or whether a sequel would work without Jolie.Superhero movies tend to feature several repetitive elements. The smash limited series by Mark Millar (Civil War, The Ultimates), JG Jones (Final Crisis, 52), and Paul Mounts (The Ultimates) is now available in a deluxe 'Director's Cut' hardcover edition Everyman Wesley Gibson just discovered that his father has been killed and that he is next in line to take his place in a secret fraternity of super.

Millar talks about the reasoning for making a sequel and trying to figure out a way to bring some of the dead characters back from the original, but he’s optimistic they can figure out a cool way to work around the latest roadblock. Last week, Scotland’s television channel STV had a chance to talk with Wanted co-creator Mark Millar and they asked him to elaborate on the reports about the movie being scrapped after Angelina Jolie dropped out, and as far as he knows, the sequel would still go ahead and they would just have to do some “plot modifications” to introduce a new character rather than the plans to have Jolie’s character Fox return. Those reports were unconfirmed by anyone at Universal at the time. Last week, it was reported by New York Magazine’s Vulture that Angelina Jolie had dropped out of the planned sequel Wanted 2 and that without the star on board, Universal Pictures were unwilling to go ahead with the project and had pulled the plug.

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