It appears that Wanted has been tapped for a sequel before the birth has begun! We get the following story from our friends at the moviehole:
“We’re just finishing up a book adaptation for Universal of the James Siegel novel ‘Deceit.’ We’ve been hired to write the sequel to ‘Wanted’ by the same studio,” Haas tells Pajiba . “And we’ve got a few more things in the hopper that it’s a little premature to talk about.”
“‘Wanted’ has been terrific. We first started working on it when only the first issue of the comic came out, and as the book became crazier and crazier, we tried to keep the script grounded. Timur Bekmambetov is directing and has been interesting and gratifying to work with. The movie is going to be a gigantic, hard-R action movie that we hope will satisfy the comic fans.”
This film gets less and less appealing to me with each released photo and clip. I think a less is more approach may have benefitted this film’s advertising. Who knows – the movie could end up kicking ass. As of right now; I am not feeling it.
I don’t like superheroes that use guns. Gun on gun violence is perfected in the hands of Chow Yun Fan; everything else just seems to be a weak shadow in comparison. I prefer blow darts, knives, poison and strangulation from my assassins. I like my assassins to be silent, I am a stickler.
I would assume that this picture is testing well for them to already green lit a sequel, and I suppose that should be a good sign. The only thing we can do at this point is wait and see. Wanted is slotted for a release date of June 27, 2008.
