A small handful of images were released a couple of days ago for a new movie I know nothing about called Wanted. It starts Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman as members of an elite underground group of assassins (what other kind is there, anyway?) who take the son of one of their members under their wing and train him in “the business.”
I understand this is based on a comic book/graphic novel. Perhaps one of my learned visitors can enlighten me. 
In any case, check out the trailer which is pretty damned cool in my opinion…
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For higher res versions of the trailer you can go to Yahoo! Movies.
Wanted opens on March 28, 2008
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Imagine you just watched a trailer for a Batman movie, where Batman never wears the batsuit. And the Joker looks just like a regular guy. And Catwoman had no cat ears or mask.
That’s kinda how i feel after watchin this trailer
My guess: Good?
Vic
No….bad. Well not necessarily but at least false advertising. It’s in no way the story the book told.
The comic was full of…i guess parodies is the right word…of characters from other comic books. Angelina Jolie’s character The Fox looked like Catwoman. Morgan Freeman’s character was a parallel to Lex Luthor.
In the comic they weren’t assassins they were super villains, all with a different power or ability and each one had a super villain costume to wear. There was a parallel to the Batman villain Clayface named Shithead. And one of Superman’s Bizarro named Fuckwit.
The Superman character in the comic was paralyzed and put in a wheelchair (like Christopher Reeve). And the Batman character had his mind erased so that he thought he was an actor who played a superhero on a cheesy TV show (like Adam West).
The comic had, Wesley, raiding other dimensions and falling through the sky while shooting flying caped do-gooders in the head.
I think the trailer actually looks pretty cool and i’ll end up seeing the movie in the theaters (which is incredibly rare for me) but it only resembles the book in the slightest sense. I don’t see why they didn’t just change the character’s names, and make just a couple more changes to the ones they already made and not bother associating it with the comic at all.
It actually makes me glad I haven’t read many of the books that movies are based on because it would probably just send me over the edge…
But like you say, it might still be good as a standalone flick.
Thanks, bud!
Vic
I actaully think the movie was written only going by the first and second issues of the comic.
I liked the comic and it’s kinda of a bummer that they are straying away from it so much. At least it looks like it could be pretty entertaining.
So… That dude is Neo and Morgan Freeman is Morpheus…. ?
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