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Wow, that seems...very different.

Makes you wonder why they're even doing it as an adaptation. It literally looks like they could just change the names and not have to pay a dime in movie rights.

No cat ears in Angelina Jolie? Damn!

The snarky comments about how ironic it is that people are taking a Millar property and doing whatever the hell they want to it want to come out but I shall hold them in.

Wow, that seems…very different.

Makes you wonder why they’re even doing it as an adaptation. It literally looks like they could just change the names and not have to pay a dime in movie rights.

It's not all that different. They've taken away the costumes, but the basic concept looks the same to me

The trailer makes it look as if they've dropped the moral ambiguity of the book along with the costumes, although I suppose the "super-assassins" protecting the world of the film might be revealed as true villains by the end, the moral authority of Morgan Freeman puts that in doubt.

I agree with DanCJ...it's not the plot that seems entirely different, it's the details. I wouldn't be heart-broken if they changed the stupid ending, though.

Well, that looks nothing at all like the comic, which makes me wonder if it's going to retain any of the humor that made the book enjoyable. Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing Angelina Jolie in leather, but without Shithead's murder by Clorox, it'll lack something.

Is there any moral ambiguity in the comic? As I remember it there were a bunch of evil bastards. Nothing ambiguous there!

From what I recall, the screenwriter went out of his way to say that the ending was his favorite part of the comic and that it was one of the parts that he most wanted to see make it to the screen.

The main problem I have with the trailer is that quite honestly, this is the most boring trailer ever released by Bekmambetov's standards, especially in comparison to the Day Watch trailer. There really isn't anything visually exciting or unexpected to be seen in here, and coming from a director who is as style over substance as Bekmambetov, that's a pretty bad sign for me.

...without Shithead's murder by Clorox, it'll lack something.

You want to see that on film, rent Kevin Smith's Dogma, the pre-Wanted #1 film that gave Millar his derivative Shithead death scene.

At any rate, I can't imagine a straight adaptation of Wanted would work, and not for budgetary reasons. The whole series was rather inside for comics geeks, and not terribly substantial as the basis for a film script.

Neither was it very good . . .but then, most movies aren't good, either.

True, Joe, but Wanted in its original form strikes me as something a bit too inflected by (and invested in playing against) the specificities of the superhero comics genre to work as a bigger movie. Unlike, say, Spider-Man, it doesn 't have all that much in terms of themes broader than its genre.

And while Spider-Man> is hardly deep and profound, it indisputably connects with mainstream American sensibilities in a way Wanted the comic book (deliberately) doesn't. The latter is, in many ways, one big, long, self-indulgent in-joke about superhero comics and their audience. That does not a successful big-budget script make, regardless of how any of us rate the quality of the source material or the in-joke.

Heh, heh!

It seems to me that Hollywood is making a superior Wanted!!! Far better than what Millar did with his creation, in his/its own medium... the comic book.

Can't wait for somebody to point this out to "the Savior of the Motion Picture Industry", "the self proclaimed best thing to NEVER have happened to the Superman Movie Franchise"... Mr. Mark Millar!!!

And I use the term "Mister", loosely.

It seems to me that Hollywood is making a superior Wanted!!!

Based on...what, exactly?

It may have been utterly repugnant, but at least the comic wasn't boring. The movie, on the other hand, just looks yawn-inducing and uninspired.

The fun part about Wanted was how truly mean spirited and awful most of the characters were. Morgan Freeman leading an clandestine brotherhood of benevolent assassins? Doesn't quite have the same effect. I might give it a chance though.

Omar, I agree completely.

It seems to me that Hollywood is making a superior Wanted!!!

Based on…what, exactly?

Based on my impression that the movie at least, "appears to have a plot" that wasn't lifted from the emotionally retarded fanfic writings of one of the trench coat mafia kids.

I mean,

... really? What were the highlights of Wanted?

1- That the main characters were so bad ass that they got to kill all the Superheoes? (Isn't that the stuff of sophomoric playground arguments? Who's stronger, Superman or Capt.Marvel/Shazam? ANSWER: Neither, 'cause Wes and the Secret Society killed them all!)

2- Or my two personal highlights... Fuckwit and Shithead. 'Cause nobody has never thought that "shit" or retarded people are funny.

3- Or the fact that the first thing the main character does once he finds out he is above the law is go and rape Britney Spears (or some sort of Hollywood star). You know, 'cause that screams "subtext" as opposed to "writer thinks he has a clever idea after watching Skinemax and squeezing one for the team."

So basically, the movie may or may not be good; but at least it "looked" better than what an emotionally challenged 9 year old fanboy may think "would be kewl" to see on a comic book "but DC and Marvel wouldn't allow it".

Hell, now that I think about it. I'm surprised Millar didn't get Jones to draw the Thing's "dong".