Update On The Status Of The WANTED Sequel

Update On The Status Of The WANTED Sequel

Producer Marc Platt tells comingsoon.net that the script they're developing for the long-planned Wanted sequel is "getting pretty good", and the comic book creator, Mark Millar, will be involved. Check it out.

By nailbiter111 - Nov 23, 2014 03:11 PM EST
Filed Under: Wanted
Source: comingsoon.net

 
It's hard to believe that it has been more than six years since the release of 2008's Wanted. Interest in a sequel has been lukewarm at best. The film seemed to come to a natural conclusion. One of the film's main attractions, Angelina Jolie's 'Fox,' had been killed off. Producer, Marc Platt, told comingsoon.net that the sequel is still coming together.

“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.”

Marc Platt also confirmed that Marc Millar ("Kick-Ass"), creator of the graphic novel in which the film was based on, would be involved with the sequel. “He’s always going to be involved but he’s not going to write the screenplay which is far along, 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 that dark humor of his really well.”
 

Wesley’s (James McAvoy) life is over – his pathetic old one, anyway…Fortunately, it is all because of a girl. Enter sizzling-hot Fox (Angelina Jolie), who crashes into his life and introduces him to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins, led by the enigmatic Sloan (Morgan Freeman). Seems Wes’s long-lost father was killed while working for the Fraternity and Wes has been selected to target the rogue member who murdered him. But before he can complete his assignment, Wes must first uncover the dark secrets behind the Fraternity in order to determine his own destiny.

Actors: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie & Common
Director Timur Bekmambetov * Screenwriters Michael Brandt Derek Haas Chris Morgan
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JAC
JAC - 11/23/2014, 3:30 PM
Do people actually want this to happen though?
FordEl
FordEl - 11/23/2014, 3:31 PM
@Sipprelle

Yeah...
MrCBM56
MrCBM56 - 11/23/2014, 3:31 PM
Power Users are back? Bull shit. I feel less civilized now
BravoBoss
BravoBoss - 11/23/2014, 3:34 PM
I'll watch it
JAC
JAC - 11/23/2014, 3:36 PM
@FordEl My understanding is that most people weren't in favor of the original because it had so little to do with the actual source materiel, and it just didn't make any sense.
GuardianAngel
GuardianAngel - 11/23/2014, 3:37 PM
I actually really liked the first one. I hope they make this.
AvisQuinn
AvisQuinn - 11/23/2014, 3:37 PM
This is neither WANTED nor needed.
FordEl
FordEl - 11/23/2014, 3:38 PM
@Sipprelle

I remember a lot of people liked it. Any complaint thats only "It didnt stick close to the material sp it sucked". That doesnt matter if its a good movie
grif
grif - 11/23/2014, 3:38 PM
have you heard the news?
bad things come in twos
DoctorDoak
DoctorDoak - 11/23/2014, 3:45 PM
Never gonna happen.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 11/23/2014, 3:50 PM
I enjoyed "Wanted." Do it!
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 11/23/2014, 3:51 PM
I'd watch a sequel. Quite enjoyed Wanted.
batz11
batz11 - 11/23/2014, 3:54 PM
Quasimodo
Quasimodo - 11/23/2014, 4:08 PM
I liked this movie, but do we really need a sequel?
OpticBlastWins
OpticBlastWins - 11/23/2014, 4:23 PM
If they go dark with a sequel and bring in the mask and more raw ass kicking why not
gambgel
gambgel - 11/23/2014, 4:26 PM
the question is: Would McAvoy be interested?
BrokenMachines
BrokenMachines - 11/23/2014, 4:37 PM
Isn't Wanted loosely based on a fraternity of DC villains?
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 11/23/2014, 4:59 PM
My reaction to DrDoom's "getting older by the post" gifs

marvel72
marvel72 - 11/23/2014, 5:06 PM
wanted was nothing like the comic,so i couldn't give a shit if they made a sequel.

@dio

nightwatch & daywatch were awesome,i do believe though i read somewhere that daywatch was the second & the planned third movie combined,so i very much doubt we'll see another.
McGee
McGee - 11/23/2014, 5:48 PM
.....they made a film adaptation of Millar's Wanted?
batz11
batz11 - 11/23/2014, 5:58 PM
Such a guilty pleasure of mine...
COREY6487
COREY6487 - 11/23/2014, 6:12 PM
wanted 2: no longer wanted
wanted 2: want my keys
wanted 2: boomerang bullets
wanted 2: revenge of the keyboard
tokens
tokens - 11/23/2014, 6:22 PM
...no. stahp.
stahp it.
staahp!
get too da chappa!
auughha!! califohnya!
IamnotYou
IamnotYou - 11/23/2014, 6:56 PM
Wanted 2 Years with Jollem away from the Internet so she can be a good mother to her daughter!
WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 11/23/2014, 7:06 PM
Put him in the suit.
IamnotYou
IamnotYou - 11/23/2014, 7:08 PM
who cares what kind of cross eyes grass eater you shoved out? Go be a mom and leave the trolling to someone else.
IamnotYou
IamnotYou - 11/23/2014, 7:24 PM
Again lady, no one cares what future drain like you that you have. Except the state because they have to pay for it while you troll away on the Internet. Put the dick down or get your tubes tied.
IamnotYou
IamnotYou - 11/23/2014, 7:39 PM
I feel sorry for the man you con into being with you ma'am.
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