In case you can't be bothered to watch all of Night Watch before Day Watch comes along in a couple of months, Fox have boiled it down to just two and a half minutes, finale and all.
If you think you can do better and force the whole thing into 25 words or less, I'd like to see your try in the comments section.
Timur Bekmambetov is already planning a sequel to Wanted and the studio are backing it. Mark Millar, however, has promised to his forum members that he won't be following up his original comic book at all.
Here's the post on the Millar World forums:
I am NEVER writing a sequel to Wanted. The director has an idea for a sequel based on these characters and ideas and they're already making plans with the studio. But I am absolutely not doing a sequel to the comic-book. I always saw the things as self-contained. It was one guy's journey.
So, should Wanted prove to be sufficiently... liked, then a sequel could come about pretty rapidly.
Thanks to Mike (so many Mikes round here) who saw the original forum post.
Seeing as Angelina Jolie has now joined the cast list for Wanted, I think we can safely assume she won't be in the next Sin City. As expected. But now, perhaps, we know why she'll be at the ComiCon this summer.
Wanted is sounding like a very, very entertaining film, and hopefully not an entirely hollow one either. Fingers crossed for something at least on a par with 300.
Over on the Millarworld forums, the man Mark Millar himself has almost drowned in excitement (read: excitement triggered pee) in anticipation for Timur Bekmambetov's upcoming film of his comic book Wanted.
"This is going to be amazing. Like I trailered yesterday, even Gill's Mum gave a big Keannu-style whoa at a sequence between a car chase and a train. I can't give much in the way of details here, but watching some of the scenes from the book come to life can only be compared to giving birth to a 100 million dollar baby. The opening sequence with The Killer plus boyfriends chasing his would-be assassins across the rooftops is just jaw-dropping. I was honestly pinching myself, worried I was bi-polar and this whole thing was just a wishful hallucination."
"March 08 cannot get here fast enough. McAvoy, Freeman and the big star they aren't telling you about until Summer plus an action director this good really is going to be something special. Three months ago my expectations were zero. Now they're enormous."
Guesses on who this big star might be in the comments below. I'll get things started with Bruce Willis.
Produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, Shane Acker's 9 is likely to be one of the more distinctive animated films of the coming year or so. Based on Acker's short, from which I've taken the images above (go on - click on them, they're huge and very detailed) the feature-length expansion is currently being animated in Luxembourg by Attitude Studios.
Anybody who has seen the original short 9 will know that none of the characters talk - however, this isn't to be the case in the feature version. Speaking to Cartoon Brew's Amid Amidi at an Animation Show Q&A, Acker announced the four lead voice actors and they were Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Elijah Wood and John C. Reilly.
A superb roster. I don't know if Acker has the storytelling chops to sustain a complex narrative over feature length but he's certainly very strong on the atmospherics.
