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More Shots of Angelina Jolie in Wanted Action!

by Jeff Giles | October 30, 2007

Summary

It may not be the faithful adaptation that fans of the comics were hoping for, but Timur Bekmambetov's adaptation of Mark Millar and J.G. Jones' Wanted is still hitting theaters March 28 -- and IGN Movies has more shots of the cast in action! Back to Article

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blank blank writes:
on Oct 30 2007 08:21 AM

even though this should be pretty cool, i still cant get over the fact that the people who wrote the script only used the first episode of the comic to write the movie (before the rest of the comic even came out!)

this is not Wanted. its generic-action-movie-sort-of-loosely-based-on-kind-of-Wanted. should be entertaining though

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xenogears writes:
on Oct 30 2007 09:14 AM

Interesting....

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Agro writes:
on Oct 30 2007 09:51 AM

Holy **** Freeman is looking like kind of a badass.

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Young Turk writes:
on Oct 30 2007 10:15 AM

They should make eminem the main character since that is who the character design was based off of. That would be hilarious!

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digitalsoul68 writes:
on Oct 30 2007 11:22 AM

The story COMPLETELY DEVIATES from the graphic novel. Already it's got a big negative against it. Booo. And you can tell from the GN that Jolie's part was originally intended for Halle Berry. But after Catwoman, maybe they made the right decision.

Still, rental at best for *****ing up what would have been a great story.

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0LDB0Y writes:
on Oct 30 2007 01:02 PM

Who is the director?

I hope this movie will surprise me as it did with Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

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theunrulyone writes:
on Oct 30 2007 01:26 PM

I am so sick of Angelina Jolie in action roles, or for that matter, in general. Yes she is hot (in more ways than one) and she will bring in the money (which is what movie making is all about), but she is so tired. Come to think of it, everything in this movie is tired. A gun shooting two guns in two different directions? Never seen that before, oh wait, yes I have; I call it the Matrix, I call it Lethal Weapon, I call it Hitman. And oh look, there's a chick in leather on top of a train. Mission Impossible? Die Hard with a Vengeance?

I know hollywood is out of ideas, but these shots really make me think that this movie is going to suck hard. The only remotely cool thing about the shots are the ones of Morgan Freeman, and that's only because you don't usually see him in the role of a gun-toting badass.

As far as making this from the comic: I think it would be extremely difficult to turn Wanted the comic book into a movie true to said comic book. There is too much wacky stuff that goes on in the comic that to make this a live-action straight up version would make it even more ridiculous than its already going to be. I mean, the ending of the comic by itself would be hard to pull off. I am not saying it couldn't be done, but it would be extremely difficult to do it well. In my opinion, Wanted is an unfilmable comic, so I ask why didn't they call this movie something else, and then just say it was inspired by the comic by Millar and Jones.

Oh, and as a final gripe: I hate that they are putting a white woman in a black woman's role. That's right, the Fox was black in the comic, as she should be in the movie. This is like when they got Michael Duncan Clarke to play the Kingpin in that Daredevil POS. In Daredevil's case it was probably a mix of size (both Clark and the Kingpin are HUGE) and playing the equality card. In the case of Wanted its box office success hotness over authenticity. Oh well, this movies going to be a big steaming turd anyway.

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blank blank writes:
on Oct 30 2007 01:50 PM

director is some russian dude named tim bickaoifjifueffewoff, he did night wathc/day watch.

as for white/black people in black/white roles.... who cares? they already changed EVERYTHING about the comic, who cares if the halle berry role is played by angelina jolie? its not like they are casting tom hanks as malcolm x or ashton kutcher as MLK Jr. its a character from an obscure comic book...

but i agree with you about jolie... yawn

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highdough writes:
on Oct 30 2007 01:51 PM

I'm sick of nerds whining about how a movie doesn't do this or that in relation to your beloved comic book. Get a life people! Most comic book movies suck, anyway. I've never really understood why one would want to see exactly what they read in a comic book or regular book anyway. I mean, don't you pretty much know what happens, anyway? What's the point?

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crystalwhiteeyes writes:
on Oct 30 2007 01:54 PM

I'm surprised she could even lift that gun. She's that anorexic!

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blank blank writes:
on Oct 30 2007 01:57 PM

i dont classify myself as a "nerd" but lets assume this:

i read the part in superman comics where superman crash lands and grows up on a farm. then i say to myself "this is awesome, he's an alien kid on a farm!", then i write a movie script about how that kid goes on to be a lawyer, and uses his super legal skills to save his farm from a diabolical multinational coorporation that dumped toxic waste on his land by suing them, and then called the movie "Superman: Man of Steel"

which is basically what happened in this instance. people who know the superman comic would say "wtf? this isnt superman". thats all.

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Crenshaw writes:
on Oct 30 2007 02:07 PM

Eat...a...sandwich.

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southwick writes:
on Oct 30 2007 02:49 PM

To Highdough

Most comic book movies suck because they deviate from what made the original material great, and instead make a crap movie.

Its kind of weird how the good comic book movies have a tendency to take directly, or at least keep the same feel/tone/ideas, from the source material.

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TheAnswerMVP2001 writes:
on Oct 30 2007 05:26 PM

They actually didn't cover up all her tattoos this time...I think that might be a first.

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Kimmycat24 writes:
on Oct 31 2007 07:17 AM

Great shots! I am not a comic book fan at all but this movie looks good. Angela Joile isn't an actress that I like that much but her role is sort of a caricature anyway. Who cares what race she is. I just loved the shots of Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy. I have always liked Morgan Freeman but Jasmes McAvoy is one of my favorite actors right now. He is very talented. I will go to see this movie. I think it will surprise a lot of people.

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jennylo writes:
on Oct 31 2007 09:10 AM

crap...another wasted movie. I like Freeman, but watching another movie with Jolie supposedly acting by just pouting her lips makes me sick. Really, isn't there any other actress that could have done this film justice?

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CoUcH ToMaToE DoUgIe writes:
on Oct 31 2007 01:30 PM

hey, lets be nice boy and girls... we are still talking about Miss

Angelina Jolie who deserves a bit more respect than we are giving her. hey, any movie

staring her i'll give a look and i hope to love her even more in Beowulf. still, i

understand all the pain from the comic book fans about their story being ruined but hey

no one ever leaves happy with comic book adaptations.. at least entirely. there are

always problems and the fact that hollywood has seen you can put a piece of possesed

evil dog crap on a stick, fantastic four, and get idiots to come then they will never

learn. i am sorry but its just the way it is and i wish the best for you with your film.

P.S. please Stop with all the anexoric criticisms on Angelina's weight, please!!!

She not some stupid worthless *****, like a nicole ritchie, that we all can enjoy

hammering away until we feel better about destroying a bad person. she is a legend

and lets all hope and pray our beloved angie gets help and becomes the #1 sex icon in

the world again. It's always sad to see a legend like angie so thin but please no

insults for a woman who still every man, and woman;) would make love with in a

nanosecond and be a dream come true to do it.

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Darkness My Old Friend writes:
on Oct 31 2007 02:39 PM

IGN has a trailer up ( http://media.movies.ign.com/media/040/040260/vids_1.html ) and I must say this movie looks obscenely amazing. Oscar fodder, no, but this sure is something that my friends and I will watch on a big screen for years. HE BENDS BULLETS LIKE BECKHAM! That's just... man, I just don't even know how to describe how pumped I am for this.

And of course, as per usual, Mr. Freeman's narration just drips liquid awesome.

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Kimmycat24 writes:
on Nov 01 2007 06:03 AM

In reply to this comment (#1236993)
I watched the trailer on IGN yesterday after posting my previous comment and it looks really good. I e-mailed the trailer to my little brother and some of my friends. Everyone emailed me back with positive comments. I too loved Morgan Freeman's narration. I am not a huge fan of action movies but this is one that I want to see.

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Nick402 writes:
on Nov 04 2007 09:01 AM

It actually looks pretty good.

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