bosef982
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I don't know if this has been posted.
I picked up the latest edition of CreativeScreenwriting and it has a free-for-all with comic book screenwriters, among which are the writers for Wanted.
They explain why this version is so radically different than Millar's version and why Millar is happen with the version.
It's a long article but the jyst of it is that the screenwriters started writing the script BEFORE Millar even finished writing the series. They really only had the first issue to go on, which did not include the superhero element.
By the time they had finished their script, they had already turned it in and the studio had greenlit it, not wanting to make very many changes otherwise to the script since it had a strong realistic, gritty nature.
Also, the studio said -- and apparently Millar agreed -- that they could not translate the actual characters from the graphic novel into a mass-audience movie that could be shown.
I picked up the latest edition of CreativeScreenwriting and it has a free-for-all with comic book screenwriters, among which are the writers for Wanted.
They explain why this version is so radically different than Millar's version and why Millar is happen with the version.
It's a long article but the jyst of it is that the screenwriters started writing the script BEFORE Millar even finished writing the series. They really only had the first issue to go on, which did not include the superhero element.
By the time they had finished their script, they had already turned it in and the studio had greenlit it, not wanting to make very many changes otherwise to the script since it had a strong realistic, gritty nature.
Also, the studio said -- and apparently Millar agreed -- that they could not translate the actual characters from the graphic novel into a mass-audience movie that could be shown.
