I hope this film is a breath of fresh air for the action genre..the trailer looks good do u think this movie will spawn sequels like the night watch series ?

Wow, Timur really likes to use red cars in his films

Although it looks alright, I don't find this as a "must see" movie.

This movie is five years too late for me. Nothing impresses me anymore.

Yawn.

Wow... Matrix comparisons easy indeed.

Bah. If they made it like the graphic novel not a righteous assassian society movie it would be sweet. I don't have high hopes for this movie :(

seem's pretty meh, far from matrixy imo... if any shoot em up movie with slowmo and funny camera angles means it compares to the matrix then by all means base your comparisons.

But the matrix was more like a goth satire without the clown makup

There is no point in this movie being made. The thing that was amazing about this comic is that it was ULTRA violent. The characters freely talk about raping and killing whoever they want (and they do). There is even a scene where a person walks into a police station and kills everyone (if I recall correctly). Unless this is an NC17 film they won't be able to do the comic justice.

This movie is a BASTARDIZATION of the comic and pretty much only uses HALF of the comics plot. Theres no point in calling it Wanted. Everything appealing about Wanted was that the father of the main character was a master assasin of SUPERHEROS and that Superheros were killed in droves by the father and the organization since they are a group of the most dangerous SUPERVILLAINS. YOu take out the superhero element and you have a stale concept that barely resembles the original comic. Thanks Hollywood and more importantly, thanks Top Cow for ruining a great comic.

This does seem a bit like an Anti-Matrix,,,the matrix was a philisophical treatise covering the slavery of the corporate world, concepts of god, of freedom, of everything.....the matrix was about freeing your mind...the action was just a shell for the message, this film looks to be more about preditory society, control as a good thing etc....the comparison falls flat, and it doesnt appear to have all that much of a soul to it....compareing this to the matrix is quite a large diss to the matrix...but of corse thats just from the trailer...it could have something going for it....wish takashi miike had directed it though... heh

Josh is right the movie barely resembles the comic.

I dunno the comic was based on an interesting premise but ultimately it was unsatisfying. I'm interested to see how the filmatists have interpreted it. Certainly visually it looks great, can't say I get the Matrix comparisons though apart from that one scene with the bullet. Jolie seems perfect for The Fox it's just a shame they seem to have dropped Rictus as the villain.

I watched the trailer and I saw no mention to loveable characters like "Shithead" a man who turned himself into a shit golem. Nor did I see any HINT of "Fuckwit" who is basiaclly a clone of that worlds Superman. Only with Downs Syndrome. Its really sad because the original story was pretty good. This just looks like, well what everyone else has said. Them just using the name and bits and pieces of the original plot to try to bring in a few more dollars.

Matrix is a rip-off of Ghost in the Shell

The Matrix was a rip-off of Dark City, which is probably a rip-off from something else.

So if I've never ever in my life even HEARD of the comic, it is highly likely that I will enjoy this movie, right? WAH WAH Stop crying about the comic. You KNOW you're gonna go see it anyway. How many D&D fans went and saw the D&D movie, even after seeing the god-awful trailers? How many Venom fans complained about Spiderman 3 ruining the storyline of the Venom character in the comic, but went and saw it anyway?

I rest my case. Stop whining, because we all know you'll go pay your $10 for the tickets and go see it (or spend the day downloading it with uTorrent...).

Despite the fact that this movie has Angelina Jolie in it, it looks SUPER intriguing. As an ardent studier of philosophy, I just hope that the rest of the movie will be as full of profound phrases, and that they didn't just put it all in the preview.

As for the Matrix-ish-ness accusations - definitely not valid. The Matrix was all about freeing your mind and everything, whereas this is a movie that begins with a meaningless world - and then shows how man can create his own significance by consciously and purposefully LIVING, instead of just existing. This is a story about existential man, living in a nihilistic universe.

I don't really see why it would be called a "Matrix ripoff".... just because it has big action scenes with interesting camera work? I didn't see a single kung-fu style fight sequence, nor any black leather/latex clad characters....no robots nor alternate realities and philosophy...

If anything the next to last shot wear he's shooting a bunch of people reminded me vaguely of the gun kattas from Equilibrium.

I don't usually find myself saying this (I'm not so big on most commercial hollywood films), but oddly enough I'm actually interested in this film.

WTF.
I should just stop there......no...just can't
I hope you enjoy the fat check for sellingthe idea of what is an awesome Graphic Novel to become this piece of shit excuse for a movie. nuff fucking said.

Well.. I've never read the comic either, but this is just frickin lame.. Rightous assassins..? Bullcrap.
Calling what the caracters in the trailers say profound is like saying my last shit was philosophical, and I can guaranty you there was nothing imaterial about my last crap..
A gang of assassins may make sense in one context, but when you take the story out of that context you are left with.. well.. shit like this. If it hadn't been for Freeman and Jolie, this would have been a straight to DVD..

Where the hell is the guy made of shit?!?!?!?!?!?!?

This is a bastardization of the comic! It'll be just like the Superman movies... The hero (or antihero in this case, if the core story is left intact) and none of the cool, flashy villians.

Makes me want to dig out the comics though, it was a great read.

This is just another example of the inability of Hollywood to understand that when you adopt a graphic novel into a movie, the material is already written for you. The reason that fans want to see a graphic novel made into a film is that they loved the material. Fans don't need it to be "spiced up" or changed. I know that studios will say that they want to make it easier to understand for people that didn't read the comic. I say screw those people. If you're going to make a movie based on fan reaction then keep it what made them fans in the first place. I went to see 30 Days of Night with the slim hope that they had actually kept the material somewhat true to the book. Once again I was proved correct in my assumption that Hollywood doesn't know how to keep their hands off something that wasn't broken to begin with.

LOL, I'm probably gonna be the only in this blog who says "I liked it, and will be watching it"

Matrix-like ? mmm .. No, unless you take in count the slow-motion.. but that would make 300 Matrix-like as well right ? just cus of the slow-motion ?


I liked it, and will be waiting for it.

can't believe i'm commentin. just wanted to say to all the negative comment writers. get a life. you dont like dont watch it. if the trailer wasnt good for ya, why continue thinkin bout it and thinking up somethin to write boutit on this site? idiots. and angelina jolie's great. love her work and what she stands for. and for all the wankers, go grab a comic book n jack off somewhere.

c'mon, of course this is capitalizing on the success of the matrix...your everyday loser, chained to his cubicle yet meant for bigger things? Check. Seemingly all-knowing black man who is the leader of a secret society? Check. Action-packed well-dressed white chick who slowly falls in love with said loser? Check Check Check. Whatever. I'm still going to see it.

This is dreadful. They took everything that was quirky and cool from the comic book Wanted and out popped this piece of drek.

This looks terrible - I mean, the where is the plot point about supervillians ruling the world and hoping between the various other planets in the multiverse to rip off their technology while maintaining the status quo of their own domain?

I want to see that version of the movie - not Mr & Mrs Smith meets Lucky Number Slevin! I want to see Wesley taking on the other branches of the Fraternity - I want to see Richter and Shithead and the Puppet Master and all the other characters that made the comic book series great.

Unless the movie takes the piss out of the action film genre then it's missed the point - that was one of the critical and beautifully subverssive parts of Millar's work. Although to be honest he's just become a massive sell out recently, even since he was asked to do Ultimate X-Men - in fact, is he taking it up the butt from Wesley I wonder???

I for one will not be paying money to see this either at the cinema or on DVD...and Angelina Jolie is soooooo wrong to play the Fox - I'd have gone with Halle Berry personally.

I've never had such an adverse reaction to a trailer in my life...

Looks better than the matrix.

I was kind of sorry to see that this turned into a watered-down run of the mill action movie, and nothing more. Sure, it looks like a cool action movie. Fine. But it's not OK to call it "Wanted".

Is it an action movie or a sci-fi movie? The trailer lets me a little bit perplex.

this is nothing like the comic. If you dont see this as a "must see movie" then pick up the graphic novel because i guarantee that it is a "must read", however, after reading the comic, you might be disappointed in the movie.

Wanted the comic book was a sweet orgy of action and violence . To make and exact movie would be impossible . i mean i loved fuckwit and shithead but im not really into paying ten dollars to watch a walking pile of shit .....so lets give this movie a chance . now if it sucks i'll be the first to promote the bootleg copies lol

I like this and wil be seeing it. I don't read comics books, so I can't for sure or not that this was like the books.

As for being like the Matrix. I see some similarities, but I wouldn't call it a rip-off. The guy who hates his office job, maybe, but who doesn't? And the bullets in slow motion, well, if that is ripping off the Matrix, I guess more than one film is guilty.

I'll go and see this film and Angelina is an added bonus.

Angelina looks otherworldly in this.
So.
Damn.
Hot.

Hollywood once more shows that the can not make a great comic into a good movie. its seems to me that the are not going to have any of the SUPERVILLAINS dressed up. thats why hollywood cant get these kinds of flims right. they keep trying to make comic flims look real.Odds are i will see this movie, all i can hope for is that the doll master is in it. do you think they will end it like the Graphic Novel

I'm excited!!! >.

I don't plan on seeing this movie. It has, however, sparked my intrest in the comic. While I have not read the original work I plan to. I an respect what the fans of the comic are saying. It's like taking Lord of the Rings and turning it into 300. Hollywood really needs to try and stay true to the sorce material.

Love the comic. One of the only series I picked up couple years back. When I heard a movie was being made I was stoked.

True this film strips out the super hero and villain aspect and concentrates on the assassin part only and at first I was a bit dissappointed. But after thinking about it, do you really think a character called " sh*thead" and "f***wit" are going to be taken seriously in film format? Some things read better in comic book form than in film. I will keep my mind open and anxiously await the opening of this film in March.

This movie looks way more like the movie Equilibrium than the Matrix.
If you've never seen Equilibrium, I highly recommend you watch it. Or at least read a synopsis about it. It's a really badass movie. =]

Big disappointment. I loved the graphic novel and, on hearing of the film, was really excited. The trailer shows a seemingly completely different story, even the characters don't seem to have the same personalities. It's not that I mind them making a rubbish film. When it comes around, I probably will end up seeing it, and there is an outside chance that it might be an enjoyable action romp, but that is completely beside the point. it's the fact that it's got the 'Wanted' Name slapped on the front of it that makes it so much harder for me to ignore what it is and what it could have been.

Name it something like 'Guns and stuff', change the names of the characters and leave 'Wanted' for when someone decides to make a real version.

The Fox's Character was originally designed around Halle Berry, I am surprised She was never chosen for the part. Even that I am surprised she never sued Image Comics for the use of her image. But I guess she must be honoured by it. Angelina Jolie is just wrong for the part, I think all that have read the comic will still associate Halle for the part of the Fox, And what of Marshell Mathers III! as Wesley. ?????
Anyway Halle is the true Fox

Chrissy Boy, I think Catwoman pretty much ruined any chance she might ever have of playing a slinky supervillain ever again.

Catwoman is Catwoman, there are expectations that have past from one person to another who have played the Catwoman and what the fans want of her to continue that genre. Wanted is new, it was based on her looks, and it would and should be a different side, to seeing her play a super villian blowing a hole in some ones head in a bar. Plus the sex.
Remember it always comes down to the script and how great or Sh#t it is.
Don't forget X-men and how sexy cool she was in Die another day.

Common everyone,
I'm just as much a fan boy as the next guy, but how are you going to sit there and expect a direct adaptation of this comic to the screen. Awesome it may be, but a world secretly run by costumed supervillians who rewrite the fabric of time with a machine that looks like the empire state building....? Sounds like crap movie material, but fuck did I love reading it. Some things are best left on the page. At least they are trying to get what they can from the material at hand. Let your mind wander to new possibilities for the story line, isn't that what enjoying comics is all about?

Fuck this stupid piece of shit excuse for a movie!!!!!!!!! Eminem (who sucks) should have been Wesley, Hailey Berry should be Fox and a fucking midget for the professor (I think that was his name)!!!!!!!!!! That's who was drawn to play those parts. READ THE GOD DAMN COMIC!!!!!!!!! It was awesome! You will hate this movie when you do and be as pissed as I am about how much they seemed to change the story. Club of assasins playing with their wangs?? No super villians, dead super heros, retards, midgits, shit monsters, alternate worlds, and jabbs at mainstream comics? God bless Frank Miller for having the balls to not let Holly"up the ass"wood take a fat steaming dump on his visions. FUCK THE REST OF YOU SELL OUTS!!!!!!

Hey Matt,
Good use of the word fuck. At long last a literary genius such as yourself has come along and let us all know what a bunch of sell outs we are. I was hoping someone would set me straight soon, I wasn't sure how to decide on what I like. But now that you are here.... hallelujah! You are right, how could hollywood change a story that is completely based in fantasy? Don't they have any respect for the creative process.... or is that what they are in the middle of???
All of you that have a problem with this film, pull your heads out of your asses and remember that it is just a movie.

"God bless Frank Miller for having the balls to not let Holly”up the ass”wood take a fat steaming dump on his visions."

yeah right, the guy who got his RoboCop script chopped into two crappy flicks, let them add subplots to his 300 graphic novel that were both artistically incorrect with his story as well as historically invalid, allowed RR to tweek his Sin City stories to make thm more "Hollywood", is still having his Dark Knight Returns cut apart, chewed up, and spit back out into various versions of the Batman films and now is working on raping Will Eisner's Spirit comics into a walking crapfest? Miller is not the great defender of Comic Book adaptions. Alan Moore is the man. He wants them to stop making his comics into shitty movies! He wants comics to be accepted as thier own artform that does not need to be coddled by Hollywood movie rapists to feel valid. He now has his name taken off movies based on his work and gives his share of money to the artists. That is a man that knows the best adaptation of a Comic Book is a Comic Book!

I was going through my full set of Wanted Comics,,, Its making me think why did they not do the same with Witchblade. Turn it nt a fuckin movie which they said they would.