Suddenly, the old characters seem pretty old. Timur really raised the bar here. Batman better be really, really good to top this.
Mark Millar (writer of WANTED the graphic novel and mad scotsman) speaking about WANTED the movie
I’ve seen this kind of effusive praise from Mr. Millar about “WANTED” for the past couple of days, having already decided to give the movie a look either way, this excites me to see it. As the writers of source material in comic movies almost universally hate the end result when their comics become film.
Not that every comic movie has been bad either, even the bad ones were okay in many cases. (Captain America, with the rubber ears, BAD. Spider-man with the ropes for webs, GOOD for the time, BAD in the scope of things). The X-Men movies aren’t all good, but they have their moments, which makes up for the stupid stunts like “I’m the Juggernaut, Bitch”. I don’t think I need to list all the comic movies off for you to have a few in the good and a few in the bad columns in your head. Nevertheless, Wanted was one of those Comics that was MADE to be a movie and DRAWN to have the casting in place. Which makes this adaption worrisome and now also exciting.
So, are you going to head to the theatre this weekend to see the R rated violence, or what?