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Fox then asks Sloan if this is true. Sloan then reveals that ''all'' of their names had come up in the weaving, and that he had merely acted to protect them. He then goes on to explain that if they truly believe in the code then they should all commit suicide right where they stand. Otherwise, they should kill Wesley and live a life of freedom - or more appropriately, [[world domination]]. The other assassins seem content with killing Wesley, but Fox, who personally understands the importance of the code, turns on her fellow assassins. She curves a bullet to kill the entire circle of assassins, including herself. This leaves Wesley free to pursue Sloan, but he is gone.
Fox then asks Sloan if this is true. Sloan then reveals that ''all'' of their names had come up in the weaving, and that he had merely acted to protect them. He then goes on to explain that if they truly believe in the code then they should all commit suicide right where they stand. Otherwise, they should kill Wesley and live a life of freedom - or more appropriately, [[world domination]]. The other assassins seem content with killing Wesley, but Fox, who personally understands the importance of the code, turns on her fellow assassins. She curves a bullet to kill the entire circle of assassins, including herself. This leaves Wesley free to pursue Sloan, but he is gone.


Wesley, having now lost his $3 million, returns to working in an office, and is seen once again Googling his name, which again yields no results. Sloan appears behind Wesley, pointing a gun at Wesley's head. Wesley turns around, and reveals himself to be a decoy. Sloan looks underneath him to discover an X shaped spot made with post-it notes. Sloan mutters "fuck" as a bullet bursts through his forehead, fired by the real Wesley who is sitting a mile away. Like the comic, ''Wanted'' ends with Wesley breaking the [[fourth wall]], addressing the audience, and listing his accomplishments, ending with him saying: "This is me taking back control of my life. What the fuck have you done lately?"
Wesley, having now lost his $3 million, returns to working in an office, and is seen once again Googling his name, which again yields no results. Sloan appears behind Wesley, pointing a gun at Wesley's head. Wesley turns around, and reveals himself to be a decoy. Sloan looks underneath him to discover an X shaped spot made with post-it notes. Sloan mutters "fuck" as a bullet bursts through his forehead, fired by the real Wesley who is sitting a mile away. Like the comic, ''Wanted'' ends with Wesley breaking the [[fourth wall]], addressing the audience, and listing his recent accomplishments, ending with him saying: "This is me taking back control of my life. What the fuck have you done lately?"


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 02:22, 1 July 2008

Wanted
Theatrical poster
Directed byTimur Bekmambetov
Written byMichael Brandt
Derek Haas
Chris Morgan
Produced byMarc Platt
Jason Netter
Jim Lemley
StarringJames McAvoy
Morgan Freeman
Angelina Jolie
Music byDanny Elfman
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
United Kingdom:
June 25, 2008
Russia:
June 26, 2008
United States:
June 27, 2008
Australia:
July 31,2008
Running time
110 min.[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$75 million[2]
Box office$62,118,000 (US)

Wanted is a 2008 action film loosely based on the comic book miniseries Wanted by Mark Millar. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Konstantin Khabensky and Angelina Jolie. Production began in April 2007. Wanted was released on June 25, 2008 in the UK and June 27, 2008 in the US.

Plot


The film opens with a man known as Mr. X (David O'Hara) walking into a building in Chicago. He goes into a room and speaks with an Indian woman to find out who made a particular bullet for a "competitor". As the two are talking, a sniper shoots the woman, prompting Mr. X to run back into the elevator. As he prepares himself, time slows down in his perspective, and he then dashes down the corridor at amazing speed. He jumps out the window, crosses the gap between buildings, eliminating his opponents as he does so. He picks up the cell phone from the dead sniper, and receives a call from Cross (Thomas Kretschmann), a former member of the Fraternity now gone rogue. Cross tells Mr. X the snipers are decoys, who looks down and realizes that he is standing on top of an X mark on the ground. Cross then says goodbye as he fires a multi-stage bullet through Mr. X's head from miles away.

Meanwhile, Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), who works as an accounts manager in a firm, is living a monotonous and unrewarding life, frequently being yelled at by his boss and suspecting that his friend and coworker is having sex with his girlfriend (which indeed he is). He feels his life is summed up by an attempt at self-Googling; which produces no results. In addition, he is a hypochondriac, prone to panic attacks, which he takes Atavan to control. However, time seems to slow down during these attacks - just like Mr. X.

One night, at a grocery store, Wesley notices he is being stalked by Cross, but doesn't pay any mind until a mysterious woman (Angelina Jolie) suddenly appears next to him, telling him that his father, Mr. X, was an elite assassin who had been killed on top of a building the other day. The woman suddenly opens fire on Cross, and a shoot-out in the grocery store leads to a car pursuit in the streets, with the woman and Wesley making a narrow escape.

He wakes up the next morning at the base of The Fraternity, a thousand-year-old secret society of assassins who kill those who threaten to bring the world to chaos. The group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), introduces Gibson to Fox, the woman from the night before, and invites him to follow in his father's footsteps as an assassin. Sloan first decides to test Wesley by making him shoot the wings off a fly. When Wesley refuses, a gun is put to his head, triggering a panic attack - during which he manages to shoot the wings off several flies.

Sloan explains that Wesley's panic attacks are actually a rare superhuman ability which allows his heart to beat abnormally fast, flooding his bloodstream with equally abnormally high amounts of adrenaline. This causes his perspective of time to slow dramatically, granting him superhuman reflexes and strength. This trait is genetic, inherited from his father - and with his father's death, he also inherits his father's fortune to do with as he wishes. But Sloan is offering more than that - he is offering Wesley his father's position within The Fraternity, signified by his father's gun. Wesley, already overwhelmed by the day's events, refuses and leaves.

Wesley wakes up the the next day thinking that everything was a dream, but discovers his father's gun and finds over $3.6 million in his bank account. He then decides to investigate the claims made by Sloan and Fox, and finds them to be true. Having finally discovered that he's meant to do something significant with his life, he summons up the courage to tell his boss to "Shut the fuck up" and knocks out his no-good friend's teeth with a keyboard (the shattered keys and teeth spelling out "fuck you"). Fox, waiting for him outside, gives him a ride back to the Fraternity headquarters.

Sloan appoints Fox to mentor Wesley, and he immediately begins training Wesley to make full use of his abnormal adrenaline surges and become the killing machine that the Fraternity needs. The Repairman desensitizes him to pain through daily bludgeoning. The Butcher teaches him various forms of close combat; hand-to-hand and knife fighting. Fox teaches him parkour. The Gunsmith teaches him marksmanship, not only with normal firearms but also the Fraternity's smoothbore weapons which are able to "curve" specially etched bullets in a manner similar to expertly pitched baseballs.

This training is extremely brutal, and is only endurable with the assistance of periodic medicinal baths that accelerate healing. While recovering in one of these baths, Wesley meets The Exterminator (Konstantin Khabensky), a fellow Fraternity member who likes to attach mini-bombs to rats and detonate them. He constantly reminds Wesley to imagine a thousand mini-bombs on a thousand rats.

Once he has completed his training, Wesley is given orders to kill people from The Loom of Fate, a cloth spinning machine that gives the names of the targets through a binary code hidden in the weaving of the threads, a process which Wesley initially finds suspect.

While on his first assignment, Wesley hesitates in killing his target while riding by on the top of a train. In the next scene, he questions Fox, "How do we know who is bad or good?" She responds by telling him a story of a young girl. The girl's father was a prestigious judge who was handling a sensitive case, and the case's defendant had put a hit on him in order to get a judge who could be bought off. One day a hired killer held the young girl at knife point as they waited for her father to return home. The killer lit the father on fire as the young girl watched, then he branded his initials into her neck, which was the signature of his work. Fox explains that the killer had been targeted by the Fraternity several weeks prior to the events of the story, but their assassin had failed to carry out his duty. Fox then explains that is what the Fraternity does: kill one, and save a thousand. Wesley notices that initials are scarred onto her neck, indicating that the young girl in the story was her. The scene switches back to Wesley firing and curving the bullet to take out the target, revealing that Fox's story was told in a flashback prior to the assignment taking place.

Wesley is then given a second assignment - which he accomplishes easily with limited assistance from Fox. He then returns to his apartment to retrieve his father's gun - and encounters Cross upon leaving the building. Gunfire is exchanged and Wesley pursues Cross, but in the pursuit, he accidentally kills The Exterminator. Cross takes this opportunity to "curve" a bullet into Wesley's arm. With his dying breath The Exterminator tells Wesley, "thousands."

Wesley analyzes the bullet from his arm and traces its origins. Sloan grants Wesley permission to seek out the bullet's caster despite Fox's protest that it could be a trap. Sloan then hands Fox a new order from the Loom, commanding her to kill Wesley.

Wesley and Fox travel to Europe to find the bullet caster. The caster, Pekwarsky (Terrence Stamp), is captured and agrees to take them to Cross. While they tail Pekwarsky, he runs, which leads to a confrontation between Wesley and Cross on a moving train. Fox steals a car and crashes it into the train, eventually causing the train to derail when it reaches a bridge over a deep ravine. Wesley, Fox, and Cross hang on for their lives as their cabin dangles over the bridge. Wesley is about to fall, but Cross catches his hand to save him. As he lifts Wesley up, Wesley unhesitatingly shoots him. Before Cross dies, he tells Wesley that everything the Fraternity told him was a lie, and that he is his real father. Fox confirms the truth and explains that Wesley was the only one who could kill Cross not because of any superhuman talent, but because the only person Cross wouldn't kill was his son. Fox prepares to shoot Wesley, but Wesley shoots the glass underneath him, plunging into the river far below.

He is rescued by Pekwarsky and wakes up in an apartment across the street from his former apartment. Upon inspecting the room he discovers that the apartment belonged to his father, who had been monitoring him his whole life. Pekwarsky hands Wesley a loom weaving and tells him to decode it. Wesley is shocked to discover Sloan's name in the weaving. Pekwarsky explains that Cross discovered Sloan's name had come up, so Sloan put a hit on Cross, effectively turning the Fraternity against him and forcing him to go into hiding. Since then Sloan has been selling the Fraternity's skills to the highest bidder via false weavings. Cross then began assassinating Fraternity members to keep them away from Wesley, hoping to spare his son a life as a killer. Wesley realizes that Cross had never actually tried to kill him in their previous confrontations. He discovers a secret room in the apartment where all of his father's weapons, maps, notes, and blueprints are stashed. He even finds a supply of The Exterminator's mini-bombs, realizing that The Exterminator had been working with his father. Using his father's stash of assets, Wesley devises a plan to take out Sloan and the Fraternity.

Wesley begins the first phase of his plan by filling a garbage truck with rats gorged on explosives-laced peanut butter, "arming" a number of the rats with The Exterminator's mini-bombs. He then crashes the truck into the Fraternity compound, thus flooding it with pseudo-smart bombs. After all the rats explode, he charges in, killing all the Fraternity members he encounters. When he reaches Sloan's office, he is immediately encircled by Fox and a few other high level assassins. Wesley tells them that Sloan is killing for profit by providing his killers with fake instructions from the Loom. He then attempts to kill Sloan, but is disarmed by Fox.

Fox then asks Sloan if this is true. Sloan then reveals that all of their names had come up in the weaving, and that he had merely acted to protect them. He then goes on to explain that if they truly believe in the code then they should all commit suicide right where they stand. Otherwise, they should kill Wesley and live a life of freedom - or more appropriately, world domination. The other assassins seem content with killing Wesley, but Fox, who personally understands the importance of the code, turns on her fellow assassins. She curves a bullet to kill the entire circle of assassins, including herself. This leaves Wesley free to pursue Sloan, but he is gone.

Wesley, having now lost his $3 million, returns to working in an office, and is seen once again Googling his name, which again yields no results. Sloan appears behind Wesley, pointing a gun at Wesley's head. Wesley turns around, and reveals himself to be a decoy. Sloan looks underneath him to discover an X shaped spot made with post-it notes. Sloan mutters "fuck" as a bullet bursts through his forehead, fired by the real Wesley who is sitting a mile away. Like the comic, Wanted ends with Wesley breaking the fourth wall, addressing the audience, and listing his recent accomplishments, ending with him saying: "This is me taking back control of my life. What the fuck have you done lately?"

Cast

  • James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson: A meek 24-year-old who works in a cubicle, but is heir to a legacy of assassins. McAvoy was cast in the lead role in October 2006.[3] McAvoy, who had screen-tested for the role early in 2006, was initially rejected due to the studio seeking an actor that had conventional Hollywood leading-man looks and physique.[citation needed] The actor was later recalled, being considered the "runt of the litter" of those who tested.[citation needed] According to McAvoy, "They [ultimately] wanted someone geeky."[citation needed] The Scottish actor, who portrays an American in the film, trained for the film's action scenes.[4]
  • Morgan Freeman as Sloan: The charismatic assassin partner of Wesley Gibson's deceased father.
  • Angelina Jolie as Fox: One of Fraternity assassins who mentors Gibson.[5] Jolie was cast in March 2007 after screenwriter Dean Georgaris rewrote the screenplay to tailor the role for her.[6]
  • Common as The Gunsmith: A professional gunman who trains others to use weapons.
  • Konstantin Khabensky as The Exterminator: Khabensky, who starred in Bekmambetov's Night Watch, was cast so the director would have a familiar face around Wanted.[7]
  • Marc Warren as The Repairman
  • Dato Bakhtadze as The Butcher: A master of knife work.[8]
  • Terence Stamp as Pekwarsky: A master in the science of killing. Pekwarsky operates as a rogue agent outside of The Fraternity.[9]
  • David O'Hara as Mr. X: Said to be the greatest assassin. His killing catalyzes Wesley's introduction to the Fraternity.
  • Chris Pratt as Barry[10]
  • Kristen Hager as Cathy[11]
  • Thomas Kretschmann as Cross: A rogue assassin who has left the Fraternity.

Production

The comic book miniseries Wanted by Mark Millar first attracted the attention of Universal Studios executive Jeff Kirschenbaum, a comic book fan who sought a film adaptation that would be considered a "hard-R" and encouraged the studio to pick up the rights to the miniseries.[12] By 2004, producer Marc Platt set up development of the film adaptation. In December 2005, Kazak director Timur Bekmambetov was attached to helm the project as his first English-language film, with the script being written by Derek Haas and Michael Brandt.[13] Millar did not like the first draft of the script. He explained, "I wanted the film to basically be the opposite of the Spider-Man movie, the idea of someone getting powers and realizing they can do what they want, then choosing the dark path. The [script] I read was just too tame. It just seemed a little bit Americanized. But Timur came in with his Eastern European madness, and he really made it nasty. He went closer to the spirit of the book."[14]

Director Timur Bekmambetov said that the film would keep the same characters from the miniseries, though the director would take liberty in adapting the comic book's world.[15] In July 2006, screenwriter Chris Morgan was hired to revise the third act of the Wanted script written by Haas and Brandt.[16] The script was also rewritten by screenwriter Dean Georgaris to include the role of The Fox for actress Angelina Jolie.[5] Haas and Brandt returned to even out the character of Wesley Gibson, which they had established in their first draft.[17]

Comic book author Mark Millar described the first half of the film as being close to the graphic novel. Millar also said that the film's ending was similar, though it was relocated elsewhere from the setting in the graphic novel. The superhero costumes in the series were also removed, with the exception of the leather attire worn by Wesley Gibson and The Fox. Ironically, this had been Millar's intent when writing the graphic novel, although he and artist J. G. Jones had forgotten to. "I wanted them to have those powers and then just wear those costumes for the initiation, but just for one panel." he said. "And then I forgot. I’d have liked [the filmmakers] to keep the supervillain mythos. That’s one thing I’m kind of sad they didn’t keep, ’cause I really liked that, the idea that supervillains and heroes did exist at one point and they’re all gone now."[14] The story arc of the Fates issuing death orders in line with the series's original theme of predestination was a new element to the film, an addition to which Millar was amicable.[18]

Wanted includes free running and parkour in addition to car chases and gunfights.[4] Wanted creator Mark Millar saw previsualized footage for the film and said the footage had raised his expectations for the film adaptation.[19]

Location plate shooting took place in Chicago in April 2007.[20] Several chase scenes, including one with a low flying helicopter, were shot in Chicago on May 17 and 18 on Wacker Drive along the Chicago River, between Columbus Drive and LaSalle Street.[21] Production moved to the Czech Republic later in May,[6] scheduled for 12 weeks of shooting.[22] For the film, production designer John Myhre constructed a large textile factory in Prague as part of an industrial world, the setting of a mythological environment in which looms create fabrics interwoven with the destinies of people, interpreted by weavers to issue orders for specific individuals' deaths to preserve the balance of the world.[7] Afterward, filming moved to Budapest, then returned to Chicago in August.[20]

Release

Wanted was initially set to be released in cinemas on March 28, 2008, but in December 2007, Universal announced it would be moving the release date later to June 27, 2008. Wanted was released June 27, 2008 Previews started in the UK on June 25th.[23]

Box office performance

In its opening weekend, Wanted grossed an estimated $50 million in 3,175 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #2 at the box office and averaged an estimated $16,100 per theater[24], [25] Wanted grossed more in its opening weekend than any previous live-action film starring Angelina Jolie.[26]

Critical reception

The film received generally positive reviews from critics. As of June 27, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 74% of critics gave Wanted positive reviews, based on 92 reviews — with the consensus that the film "is a fast-paced, crackling thrill ride tailor-made for the Summer audience."[27] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 64 out of 100, based on 30 reviews.[28] It has an average score of 69.1% from 60 film critics according to Movie Tab.[29]

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly encapsulated many critics' views, saying "'Wanted' is kind of unintelligible and idiotic. Also kind of nasty and brutish. And also undeniably kind of fun..."[30] Likewise, Tom Long of The Detroit News said, "Wanted may be the most absolutely stone bonkers, crazy-good movie of the century. Or it may be a gargantuan piece of trash. Chances are it's a combination of the two. But man, does it rock".[31] Claudia Puig of USA Today found the "thrilling stunts and hyperkinetic action scenes [to be] the undisputed stars of this surprisingly entertaining film".[32] Conversely, John Rosenblatt of The Austin Chronicle denounced those same attributes, saying, "If Maxim magazine ever decides to branch out into filmmaking, Wanted is just the kind of ear-throttling nonsense it's bound to produce",[33] and David Fear of Time Out New York called it "the cinematic equivalent of an energy drink. The film keeps artificially pumping your adrenal glands with mindless, malnutritional sensations, only to leave you crampy and cranky minutes later. ...[T]his exercise in ultraviolence then insults us by having a beaten, bloodied McAvoy inform viewers that he used to be a loser 'just like all of you'".[34] Frank Lovece of Film Journal International, one of few mainstream critics to have read the comic-book miniseries, said the film compared poorly with the source material. Noting that the hero in the comic goes even further, "breaking the fourth wall and positioning himself so that he's 'prison-raping' and taunting the reader for having liked the series," Lovece found that, "While Millar may have contempt for his readers — and, by extension, the medium in which he works — at least he has his own vision, and gets it across with style and wit" that the movie lacked.[35]

In the comics press, Erik Amaya of Comic Book Resources said, "The film's biggest faults lie in how far it strays from the source", and that, "If you've ever seen any movie about leather-clad assassins, you already know how this film plays out. The speed and skill of the movie-making balance out those faults, however".[36] Tom McLean of Newsarama noted that while the story deviated strongly from the source, the movie "stands out as a highly entertaining action film that preserves the comic's core premise and cheeky attitude while taking the story into very different but still satisfying territory".[37]

Among European critics, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian said, "It looks as if it has been written by a committee of 13-year-old boys for whom penetrative sex is still only a rumour, and the resulting movie plays like a party political broadcast on behalf of the misogynist party", concluding, "In an ideal world, the title would have the word 'Not' tacked on to the front".[38]

Trivia

Near the end, the name on the cubicle is J.G. Millar, a nod to the writer Mark Millar and artist J.G. Jones.

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  12. ^ Edward Douglas (2007-08-17). "Exclusive: The Writers of Wanted!". SuperHeroHype.com. Retrieved 2008-01-26. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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