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Mark Millar Talks Wanted Sequel
June 24, 2008
Mark Millar, whose Wanted was adapted into the feature film opening this Friday, said on his message boards that a sequel is already in the planning stages:
Wanted 2 already being planned and they've asked me how I can develop some of the other stuff from the book into the sequel. We'll see what box office is like at the weekend, but everyone knows this is going to make a LOT of dough.
Wanted, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common and Angelina Jolie, was directed by Timur Bekmambetov.
Related Articles From Other SitesPosted by: Beenie McChimp on June 24, 2008 at 02:15:51
I'm sick of barely known comic properties getting too confident with their place in the film business. The people backing this film shouldn't get too excited because comic fans don't seem to be too excited for this. In fact, it seems to me like they're making this into an Angelina action flick rather than a great Mark Millar comic.
Posted by: the dark knight on June 24, 2008 at 02:24:37
Second, sorry guys always WANTED to say that. I'm up for a sequel.
Posted by: wat on June 24, 2008 at 02:40:20
meh
I don't see how they could make a sequel. They've already strayed far enough from the comic, now they want to take pieces they may have left out to continue it?
They might as well write an entirely different continuation based on the Wanted movie, not comic.
I can't even say I'm seeing it because I loved the comic. The only reason why I'm going to watch this movie is because of Bekmambetov. Daywatch/Nightwatch were amazing, and I hope he doesn't disappoint.
Posted by: Nick on June 24, 2008 at 02:48:54
Dear Mark Millar,
UG. All i heard from that comment is ... "Ohh you want to rape my work and **** me up the butt...am I going to get paid? I am!! Sure then have at my brown eye! You don't even need to lube up if you pay me even more money. "
Shame on you Mark Millar for not ****ing holding out. For poor business sense. I know you have enough money to keep the lights on, to pay for your kids college. Why let them ass rape you then? Why let them ass rape us? Why the hell do you let them screw with such a great piece of work? I consider Wanted the best peice of comic lit to come out since Watchmen. Those executives took it before you were done with issue one? **** THAT! Now I am going to have to wait 20 years before the proper WANTED movie get's made. I am livid about this. And you are actually promoting the thing now. You should have just had them change the name. Then I would be happy. But this is no WANTED I know. The wanted I know has a ****ing 7ft tall creature made of ****. The wanted I know has the smartest supervillians ever created. **** JOKER! **** DOCTOR DOOM! Your supervillians KILLED every ****ing superhero on the planet. No one has had the balls to do that and pull it off. I WANT TO SEE THAT!! I really really hope you are getting a paid alot. Enough to forget how you taking a big **** on the best piece of literature you will EVER write. What else has Allen Moore done? Alot... but what do people remember? I know you said that word in your mind. Is his movie getting made right? Why? because he held out! You are a great writer. Stupid business man. Go to community college and take some courses.
Nick
P.S. Excuse the run on sentences and the poor grammar. We all can't write like you yah ****tard.
Posted by: The only one around here who gives a **** about th on June 24, 2008 at 03:37:22
I second everything that Nick said. This is ridiculous. Everything that was cool about WANTED has been taken away and everything that was cliche', bland, and safe in terms of movies and what sells they have exploited the **** out of. It's sad that Millar has not only allowed this, but actually condones it and its furtherance. Unfortunately Hollywood, like the friggin' leeches they are, are just going to suck this comic book golden goose until they have effectively made her barren without any regard for her eggs, which could be precious gems-almost every one of them-but instead are being made into omelets for the quicker, safer buck.
Posted by: blz on June 24, 2008 at 04:10:25
i also second nick (or would that be third)
i loved this comic it was awsome nothing about it sucked really and now this bastard of a movie is comming out you what **** that
Posted by: Rex on June 24, 2008 at 04:18:40
Hey come on people, give it a shot before you trash it. I'm not the biggest Mark Millar fan out there, but here it is in a nut shell.
They COULD NOT, make Wanted, Like the Comic. To many of the Super Hero Aspects, are recognizable and therefor OWNED, by about a zillion other people. So they can hint at a few things, but you can't have the guy with the Big Red S sitting in his wheel chair not the Cape hanging in the Lab because quite simply by the time you got done PAYING everyone that owns all those conceptual rights, you can't afford to make the dang movie.
From the stuff previewd and what not, including the script, it still looks like the Story, and the Message is intact. They had to clean up the Super Hero bit in the name of remaining Sane and not going bankrupt. I say, give it a shot, if it Sucks THEN blast it.
~Rex
Posted by: Pacman on June 24, 2008 at 04:29:29
James McAvory is NO Keau Reeves (i.e. not instantly likeable). If they picked another actor - I might of rushed out to watch the film. I suspect it will suffer the same fate as "Dark City" - which flopped at the cinema, due to the miscasting of the lead actor.
Posted by: Sidepocket on June 24, 2008 at 04:33:30
@ Rex
Yet Disaster Movie can directly rip from anything they want?
WTF?
Posted by: Xybalba on June 24, 2008 at 05:18:44
...NICK..that was awesome...We AS FANS, we need to get this kind of messages across somehow...we need to let other people aware of the things that bums us about the movies nowadays,...theres got to be a way...in this forums is not enough...we all know that...
Posted by: Farsot on June 24, 2008 at 05:33:57
WANTED will be rectal waste if you read the comic (and you should if you have not), and propobly an "ok" action movie if you haven't, but I have to agree with Nick, 666 evil mens waste in a clayface persona and every thing else (not to mention the right starts for the parts) will not be there.. It'll be waste.. The No 2 (ha, ha, ha) just feels like a "lets rub it in the fans faces" pice of sh.. move.
Posted by: Ogre on June 24, 2008 at 07:12:17
Well said Nick. My favorite part of all this is the weird fanboy apoligists who try to tell us the reasons that we could never get a comic accurate version of Wanted. I never realized how many lawyers, movie producers, and screenwriters were posting on SHH.
Posted by: magictorch on June 24, 2008 at 07:21:55
To PACMAN
1.What has dark city got to do with wanted?
2.The mac is a far better actor than Reeves< he can even do accents>.
3.How was Dark city miscast?I thought everyone did a fine job.
Posted by: If you love the comic soo much... on June 24, 2008 at 07:26:02
For the benefit of all the cry-babies out there who loved the comic soo much that they can't bear the thought of the movie by all means stay home and read the comic again. I loved the comic, however I will be in line for the movie.
Hey Nick (and his followers), who think that Mark Millar "used poor business sense" maybe you should get a grip and realize the movie will not be made or broken by readers alone, it has to appeal to the masses (most of which probably dont realize it was a comic, or don't give a crap). Just out of curiosity, Nick how many of your properties have been purchased for a movie since you want to lecture Millar for "not holding out"!
Posted by: joe-tele on June 24, 2008 at 07:39:39
Does anyone think that perhaps Millar was being a tad ironic in his statement, rather than smug? Also, put yourself in his position - the first movie has already been made in its own way and he obviously ok'd it, so he might as well let them run riot with a sequel and take some earnings while he can. Doesn't make any difference to his original graphic novel. I sometimes think that fanboys are as bad as the studio execs.
Posted by: Spider on June 24, 2008 at 07:53:16
"I am livid about this."
-----------------------------------------------
Really, Nick? Are you sure? I mean, really, people can't tell by the way you phrase your words. Come on, man, just let it all out. No need to sugarcoat it. We're all adults here.
:-)
Posted by: gj on June 24, 2008 at 07:55:16
before we completely condemn the movie (too late?) GO SEE IT!!! I was vaguely familiar with the property BEFORE i saw the movie (sneak peak) and NOW i have purchased the graphic novel to familiarize myself with the work. I am sure that millar would love for that to happen, what writer wouldn't. Hollywood has to take certain liberties when it comes to comic properties so that they can give them a "real world" feel, to appeal to a broad audience.
AND the movie is quite good, quite good indeed.
Posted by: theatom82 on June 24, 2008 at 08:04:40
Ogre: I just graduated from law school, and I am posting on these boards... and Rex is correct. You have to have the rights to characters before you can include them in a film. Especially iconic characters. I haven't read the Wanted comic, so I really don't know who all appears in it. But, if there are a lot of other characters involved, it would be a nightmare trying to make it happen. Look at the whole Marvel v. Sony v. Fox (I think Fox). Marvel can't make a Spidey movie or X-Men movie because they sold their movie rights to other companies. And while there might not be many lawyers or screen writers on these boards, common sense leads you to the same answer anyways. Put yourself in the shoes of the person who owns the rights to those other characters (and think from a business point of view). You probably wouldn't give your characters away either.
Posted by: Imaginary on June 24, 2008 at 08:10:52
I haven't read the comic, so going to see the movie is not a big deal to me, I just wonder how many people --who comment about how M.Miller is basically selling out everything about his comic to make a movie-- wouldn't do the same if they had a comic?
Would you really pass up an opportunity to have A.Jolie star in it? Would you really pass up an opportunity to have a movie made about it, period?
I'm following the creation of the movie Twilight (based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer) and the author has posted numerous times that she has very little say in how the movie goes.
Pretty much, once you sell your rights, you sell your rights.
Posted by: Wally on June 24, 2008 at 08:35:19
gj, I'm not condemning it before I've seen it, but I will say that I'm not even looking forward to seeing it. I would much rather see "Wall-e" this Friday than "Wanted" and I am a huge comic book fan. Wanted just looks bad. I'll see it eventually, but I don't see why they're already jumping to sequel ideas.
Posted by: Jamie on June 24, 2008 at 08:52:19
I absolutely love the Wanted comic book and it seems to me like they took everything mildly appealing about it and gutted it with John Rambo's k-bar. In the book Wesley Gibson is about as far from a good guy as you can get. He goes on killing sprees, he rapes, all sorts of extreme evilness. This is most definetly not a tale of heroes. Even though you were totally repulsed by the actions of the characters you were totally intrigued and the story pulled you in. This movie seems to me to be the exact polar oppostite. A hollow empty sugarcoated worthless film watered down for mass kiddie consumption to sell more action figures. Just Hollywood up to it's usual antics not caring about whether the movie is done well as long as it looks pretty and rakes in tons of cash.
Posted by: robo6 on June 24, 2008 at 09:18:43
I am going to go see this movie... then I'm going to go home and read the comic book again.
They took alot out that I was really hoping to see.... I'm not at the same level as Nick on this thing. But I am alittle bummed. They do dipped into alot of different properties on the book, but they were all vague and not totally in the panel... The red cape... you see the red cape, but you dont see the yellow symbol on the back. They could have suggested and not shown it. Let the audience make the connection, and if they don't then that's fine too. But if you can make Meet the Spartans and Date Movie and Scary movie... then damn! make Wanted like it was! oh well... The whole idea that they were supervillains being taken out is realllllyy sad. it was something I and alot of other people loved. Could a part 2 bring in some of those elements? Like a counter group to the Fraternity?... the super heroes?
With all the super hero movies coming out and kicking ass... a supervillain movie would have been the ****! oh weell... still going to see it with the thought that hollywood is going to do whatever the hell they want.
Posted by: SuperDave on June 24, 2008 at 09:31:53
Bekmambetov is awesome, loved Nightwatch and Daywatch and can't wait for Dusk Watch and hopefully Final Watch. It looks like he's done an awesome job with Wanted too and I can't wait to see it. All I can say to you haters is go see it before you spout verbal diarrhea. I get sick of people criticizing movies they haven't even seen. Angelina may bring some people in but I think the movie will stand on its own with or without her. Personally I hope any sequels will be without her (not a fan).
Posted by: Your Name Here on June 24, 2008 at 09:47:18
The only way to truly send a message to Hollywood producers is to not attend and plunk down hard-earned money for the crap they produce. Plain and simple.
Posted by: kLee on June 24, 2008 at 10:38:07
"Posted by: If you love the comic soo much... on June 24, 2008 at 07:26:02
For the benefit of all the cry-babies out there who loved the comic soo much that they can't bear the thought of the movie by all means stay home and read the comic again. I loved the comic, however I will be in line for the movie.
Hey Nick (and his followers), who think that Mark Millar "used poor business sense" maybe you should get a grip and realize the movie will not be made or broken by readers alone, it has to appeal to the masses (most of which probably dont realize it was a comic, or don't give a crap). Just out of curiosity, Nick how many of your properties have been purchased for a movie since you want to lecture Millar for "not holding out"! "
Nailed it to a T... You guys have to quit whining so much about how some adaptations have strayed from the comics...some of that stuff is necessary. I'm a HUGE spiderman, yet the spiderman movies were amazing and they strayed. They have to do it for many reasons as well as make it for the general public...If you guys whine so much about it, why don't you just stick to the comics and your imagination of what a movie of it would look like.
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