The Glasgow Herald talks with writer Mark Millar about Wanted and the casting of Angelina Jolie as The Cat in the movie adaptation.
“Angelina’s pretty much the biggest female star in the world right now and so I’m naturally quite pleased about the casting,” Millar tells the newspaper. “The only way they could have got a bigger star to play this role is if they’d hired Tom Cruise in drag.”
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
“Millar has two other films in development, and his ultimate aim is to inspire a dozen in the next 10 years. He has already written a sequel to Wanted, although he has no ambition to be a director or a screen writer.”
Wait…. a SEQUEL to Wanted? Will there be another THIS IS MY FACE page for an ending?
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Actually, I’d been wanting to mention to someone somewhere, but I bought SFX this month at the hospital - little else to do, you know how it is - and they’d a big feature on how Millar is doing a version of the ‘lost’ Kirby FF #102, along with Stan Lee. I’ve not seen this mentioned anywhere on the comicsinternet at all.
Anyway, huh, much as the comic, in it’s conclusion, grated I’m kind of interested in the big screen version (which will almost certainly make Millar a bajillionaire, I’m sure; and to think, only recently, he was roundin’ up a posse to hate on a mere ‘rama blogger) and how it translates. Also interested to see if anyone at DC is ever going to notice how obviously a reworked SSoSV pitch it is.
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:46 pm
If DC aren’t going to stamp down on Squadron Supreme, then they sure aren’t going to touch Wanted.
And the “sequel” thing…could it just be a mutated reference to CHOSEN?
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March 24th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I dunno, Matt, perhaps? I seem to recall that the ‘Millarworld’ comics were supposed to be interlinked in some kind of Gerberesque way, but g_d knows if I can actually figure out how? There’s some kind of reference to repressing knowledge of the (not really) Second Coming in Wanted, isn’t there? And, hrm, yes. I didn’t read Unfunnies.
The difference between Squadron and Wanted is, of course, that one is going to be a film starring Angelina Jolie (really, though?! the Eminem thing still gots me wary) and make loads of money, while the other thing is going to remain a crutch for Joe Quesada to make terrible and inaccurate Watchmen analogies with. I don’t even know if it’s another TW subsidiary that’s making the film, so could be hosing dogpoo out of type-fingers.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I have a feeling this movie’s not going to be so good. I like Jolie, but she really hasn’t made any good genre movies (except for Sky Captain) and very few of her movies have done very well (except Mr. & Mrs. Smith). Couple that with the fact they’ve sliced out a good portion of the stuff that made the book any good (there are no mentions of super-heroes anymore) and the fact that as the budget rises, the more off-putting aspects of the characters will be stripped away. So, essentially this is going to end up being just some random action picture. I wonder who Millar will blame to movie sucking on?