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At the Movies: Angelina's Wanted as Brad Goes to Play
Per Variety, Angelina Jolie's next film gig will be starring alongside Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy in Wanted, an actioner based on a graphic novel and concerning a son out to avenge his dad's murder, with Jolie playing an assassin who tutors him.... Channing Tatum (Step Up) will star in Dear John, based on the Nicholas Sparks best-seller.... Though the timetable is still very much up in the air, insiders refute rumors that the Superman Returns sequel has gone into turnaround.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) will direct Brad Pitt in State of Play, a political thriller.... Catherine Keener and Robin Wright Penn have joined What Just Happened?, a comedy starring Robert De Niro as a down-and-out filmmaker. Penn's his ex.
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Mar 20, 2007 9:53 AM
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Per Variety, Angelina Jolie's next film gig will be starring alongside Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy in Wanted, an actioner based on a graphic novel and concerning a son out to avenge his dad's murder, with Jolie playing an assassin who tutors him
hmm. that sounds like the professional to me. angelina is jean reno! and the son she tutors is natalie portman.
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Mar 20, 2007 10:33 AM
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Well if I was Brad I would be on the set of this movie and keeping an eye on his wife, remember she likes to fool around and instead of Bradjolina we may have a new Jamesjolina to talk about? Nah, just kidding. Besides, I think that parenthood is more important to her now and being a good role model for her children and Brad is a stand up guy for adopting the kids and becoming their father. At first I was upset about the break up of Brad and Jennifer but then I got to thinking, hey, it's not my life so why should I care what they do, as long as everyone is happy now and nobody gets hurt. I think by adopting that is the best love you can give because you are choosing to be a parent, you can't say the child was an accident during relations. Not sure if this movie will be any good but I do agree that it does sound a bit like The Professional.
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Mar 20, 2007 2:10 PM
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The father is the greatest hitman of all time "The Killer" who's a part of a secret group of supervillain that have killed off every superhero. Most of the cast are archetypes of other comic characters, often juvenile like instead of Clayface, there's ****head who's composed of the feces of the 666 most evil people who ever lived.
Weirdly the character Jolie is playing looks exactly like Halle Berry in the comics, although she should stay away from any more comic movies.
Wanted really isn't anything like The Professional unless they totally change the story.
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Mar 20, 2007 2:45 PM
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hey brimicbed, where did you get the info about "Wanted"? The actual story above didn't have many details about the script, so from just the short blurb above, it sounded to me like it resembled The Professional. Not saying it's an exact copy, just tagging it as a like type movie.
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Mar 20, 2007 3:04 PM
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I've read the comic.
Here's comingsoon.net's summary of the movie:
25-year-old account manager Wes (James McAvoy) was the most pathetic, cube-dwelling hypochondriac the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend cheated on him daily and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this weakling would never amount to anything. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die a slow, clock-punching death.
Until he became Wanted.
After the murder of a father he never knew, Wes discovers powers beyond his dreams. He becomes the latest recruit in the Fraternity--a secret society of assassins--and develops lightning-quick reflexes with superhuman agility. Wes soon learns his league of henchmen has but one mission: carry out the death orders of the mythological Fates, weavers of every man's lifeline.
With wickedly brilliant tutors, he morphs into a killing machine and starts erasing one bad guy after another. But as Wes grows into the mantle passed down by his father...he discovers his clan members are not exactly the enforcers of justice they claim to be. Just as he gets everything he ever Wanted, Wesley Gibson will learn that with the ability to deliver death comes an even more difficult power...controlling your own life.
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Mar 20, 2007 3:26 PM
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brimicbed, I did not know this was a comic, I am getting old. The description you posted, thank you by the way, sounds nothing at all like The Professional, thanks for setting me on an enlightened path.
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Mar 20, 2007 9:04 PM
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