Confusing Details

[Mr. Sinister05]

I read some recent comments from the writers and they just don''t seem to make sense. I read this at:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/wantednews.php?id=6219

From their comments it seems all hunky dory that the movie's totally different from the comic but that it doesn't matter since they went tonally, character-wise and plotwise with the comic. However, they were writing the movie treatment when only issue 1 of the comic was out so how much did they have to go off of?

Also, why would Universal pay so much money on acquiring the rights for a comic adaptation when it hasn't even come out yet? I mean if they're that interested in making their own type of movie based off of a certain premise, couldn't they just make their own movie?

I guess the movie could be good but this process just doesn't make any sense. The only thing I can think of is that they bought the rights early so noone else could buy it and to secure the rights to a concept while reaping the benefits off of the name (not that the comic's that well-known outside the fan community anyway).

 

[Mr. Sinister05]

From reading the posts here, I know that there's alot of people that aren't happy that they took a different approach from the comic. I don't really mind cause the comic didn't seem that great to begin with but come on...
Even if someone wasn't the biggest fan of this series, I expected to hear more of a reaction to the comments posted in this article. Anybody?

 

[Anti-Moderator]

It's all "hunky dory" for them, (the writers) because they are getting paid....from what I have read so far the film is more of a bad Matrix rip-off than a WANTED movie adaption.

 

[Mr. Sinister05]

I suppose it would be ok with the writers. I don't get why the studio opted to get going on the movie when they didn't even know the story of it in the 1st place. That's what struck me as really odd. Not just the fact that they took a concept and totally changed it. I mean why pay money for the rights to something when you don't even know what it is?

 

[dr.strange]

i wish that i (or anyone) had the money to adapt comicbooks to the big or little screen.and although its easy to say,id stick to the source material with little or no changes.whoever gets offended,wants to protest or whatever,be damned. on a lighter note, i heard common(the rap artist) is gonna be in it.what character? anyone?

 

[Mr. Sinister05]

I'm not wondering so much about the screenwriters as about the studio who bought the comic before it was even made. I mean why pay so much money to secure something in which you want to approach from a totally differently? They didn't know whether it would have had any name value when they bought it so what gives?

Anyway, don't know if all the roles have been confirmed yet. Pretty soon we'll probably find out. Anybody know?

 

[shinlyle]

Comic movies often make money. Hollywood has been going ape-s*** buying up every comic property they can get their hands on...not just so they can make their money, but so that they can prevent another studio from aquiring the rights to a potentially lucrative franchise. That's all. Wanted is simply another property to fall victim to this.

Anyone remember when Spider-Man was in the hands of Carloco? Spider-man the film was originally supposed to be released in 1995 (at the latest), and it was simply put off as the studio put it further and further onto the backburner. Batman was still big, and they wanted the next Batman franchise. The rights were purchased back in 1992, and there was even an anouncement in an issue of Amazing Spider-man (#364, to be exact) with a number of days listed to it's tentative release (approx. 774 days). The film was left there to die. James Cameron was attached to it, and left to some film about a boat or something, and the film was eventually a lost cause. It would be almost a decade before the films legal woes were undone and the rights moved onto Sony, where it would finally become a franchise.

Wanted, unfortunately, is being released in a rush so that it can fall into the wave of Comic-to-film adaptions and hopefully cash in on it. It was snatched up before the original story was finished, and, instead of waiting for a whopping 8-10 months for the source material to be completed, they went their own direction, hoping to strike while the iron is hot. Now we're getting a crap-fest of Catwoman-esque proportions.

 

[Spider-Bat]

I've heard so many bad things about this movie, I am so sick of these idiots making these comic movies then totally disrespecting the comic and changing everything and leaving things out like they're embarrassed of it.

Make it right or not at all.

 

[CombatRock319]

maybe they should freakin consult millar...and when i say consult i mean write it...and produce it...and direct it...yeahhh then itd be good.

 

[Joker]

On the whole buying the rights to the movie before the comic was even out thing, they did the same thing with League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen...just saying, look at that, done the same way this is going...jesus this is gonna suck

 

[FatalEnergy]

yea I read this and couldn believe that they were writing the movie adaptation before the comics were even done. Terrible.

The funny thing is that I bought this GN because I wanted to read it before the movie came out to see the similarities/differences/eastereggs and right now it seems like the GN and the movie are going to be 2 completely different things.

 

[Hole Shot]

This movie shouldn't have been written until after the comic was complete and Tarantino should be director. And I'm not saying that as a Tarantino fanboy, since I only like a couple of his movies, but he's the one guy in Hollywood that can get away with making a movie where we're supposed to root for a guy that kills innocent people. He also would have done a great job with the Fox.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

on a lighter note, i heard common(the rap artist) is gonna be in it.what character? anyone?

oh ya-that'll save this lit bag of dog poop

heard he's giving it the will smith treatment and doing a wanted theme song. the backing of the track is sampled from MJ's 'Beat it'.
it's creative just like the movie is going to be. no doubt. seen?

 

[ang_hulk]

the wanted threads deserve to be dead,this movies a joke.

 

[Mr. Sinister05]

Yeah, if I were a huge fan of the mini-series I'd lose all interest in this movie.

However, I didn't think the mini-series was the greatest to begin with so maybe there's a 5% chance that the screenplay had some artistry in it? The attitudinal vibe I picked up from reading that article makes this seem highly unlikely though. A writers attitude can be telling to see whether they'd put in that extra time to turn out a quality product or not.

 

[ang_hulk]

terrible.