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Wanted Dead or Alive

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (32)

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Nobody appreciated Wanted like I did (and boy howdy and a bowl full of gravy, did I love it), probably ‘cause the haters got all bent out of shape about the Loom of Destiny MacGuffin or whatever. Those bullets curved, people! What does it take to impress you?

Anyway, for those like me who were looking forward to more of James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie smearing bullets and sex appeal all over the screen in a sequel, you can give up the ghost now. Wanted 2, for now anyway, is deader than Obama’s health care bill. It seems that Ms. Jolie has decided to turn down Wanted 2 in favor of another movie, Gravity, which is a sci-fi thriller from director Alfonso Cuarón. I don’t blame her, really. As much as I dug Wanted, you get a chance to work with Cuarón, then you work with Cuarón, damnit. That man knows how to string a series of scenes together in an appealing fashion. Plus, Gravity sounds like a decent sci-fi flick. In it, Jolie would be “playing the sole surviving human member of a space mission, desperately trying to return home to Earth and her daughter.” And she’d be on screen all by her little lonesome for most of the film.

Anyway, with Jolie taking the classier sci-fi flick, it appears that Wanted will languish, as there are no plans to recast the part, even though she basically died in the end of the original. So, all the work that went into scripting the sequel is apparently for naught. And now, we’re stuck with more James McAvoy period pieces, which is fine and great and dandy. But I really liked watching him put the hurt on folks.

(Source: NY Magazine)









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Comments

"“playing the sole surviving human member of a space mission, desperately trying to return home to Earth and her daughter.” And she’d be on screen all by her little lonesome for most of the film."

So this is "Moon" with a good looking chick?

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 26, 2010 11:30 AM

That boy needs to do The Hobbit. Now.

Posted by: ChristianH at February 26, 2010 11:30 AM

Basically died? She took a bullet through the brain.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at February 26, 2010 11:41 AM

It's startling how disinterested in Angelina I am these days, considering how nuts about her I was circa 1998.

Would-be movie stars, take note: That's what overexposure does to you.

Posted by: Todd at February 26, 2010 11:42 AM

paddydog,

Great minds think alike.

Except for that "good looking" part.

Posted by: , at February 26, 2010 11:46 AM

Other than her name on the poster for star power, I'm not really sure how Wanted 2's storyline depended so much on her anyway. SHE'S DEAD! What was she coming back as a zombie assassin? Was she still going to shoot people or just going to eat their brains? Was George Romero going to co-direct?

"Kill one to save 1000...for dinner later"

Posted by: bleujayone at February 26, 2010 11:51 AM

I enjoyed Wanted. Right up to the point where Jolie shot 20 super assassins in the head, and herself, with one bullet. Riiiiiight, they'd never see that coming, being super duper bad ass motherfuckers and all that. And herself? Just to completely fuck up a sequel? 'Tarded.

Posted by: Xtreme at February 26, 2010 11:52 AM

Don't get me started on The LOOM of DESTINY (TM)!

There's a reason I'm called bWEAVES, i.e. I own lots of LOOMS and know how to use them.

And don't get my darling hubby started on the curving bullets. He has a Ph.D in crap that says that don't work like that none.

Posted by: BWeaves at February 26, 2010 11:58 AM

,:

I do believe that's the first time since you started posting here that we have agreed on something. There is hope for bipartisanship yet!

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 26, 2010 12:03 PM

I watched something on TV, I think it was Mythbusters where they were trying to make a bullet curve. They had some crazy setup with a robot swinging a gun and coming to an instant stop. As was expected, that myth got busted.

And is that James McAvoy with Jolie in the header pic? I saw it and thought, "Oh boy! Agelina is doing another lesbian movie."

Posted by: EricD at February 26, 2010 12:07 PM

I like the idea of the Bweaves household raging against Wanted.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at February 26, 2010 12:12 PM

Not at Wanted, I pictured Bweaves dragging all her looms into the den then raging at them for never sending her a message.

Posted by: EricD at February 26, 2010 12:18 PM

Angelina Jolie was a walking skeleton in Wanted, who looked like she barely had the strength to lift her own bony hands, much less an entire armory's worth of firearms. Whatever else she was, it wasn't sexy.

Posted by: The Kilted Yaksman at February 26, 2010 12:49 PM

Re: "That man knows how to string a series of scenes together in an appealing fashion."

Understate much?

Re: "I like the idea of the Bweaves household raging against Wanted." YES!

Posted by: Stella at February 26, 2010 1:03 PM

What does it take to impress you?

James McAvoy mostly. I'm a simple woman, what can I say?

Posted by: Girl With Curious Hair at February 26, 2010 1:03 PM

For some reason, I have Bon Jovi stuck in my head...

Posted by: MM at February 26, 2010 1:36 PM

There's not much of a story there to begin with, I'm pretty sure there's not enough for a sequel. But whatever. I enjoyed it OK, even though it made the plot in "Armageddon" look plausible.

And yeah, the "Wanted" title must have referred to how much everyone else wanted Angelina to eat a sammich.

Posted by: Slash at February 26, 2010 4:07 PM

Wanted 2: horrible.

Cuaron and sci-fi: good.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at February 26, 2010 4:27 PM

Yeah, obviously the better choice for Jolie. And I was decidedly in the I Hate Wanted camp.

That said, I'm with , and PaddyDog...It kinda sounds like Moon, except less attractive. Sorry, she looks like a turkey buzzard.

Posted by: Smokin at February 26, 2010 5:54 PM

I'm happy to see this is dead, because the original movie made me mad as hell. It wasn't terrible sure, but in no universe was it Wanted, and now I have to wait a decade for the reboot.

Posted by: Chugga at February 26, 2010 6:06 PM

Wanted and Shoot Em Up may be the two most overrated movies in their Pajiba reviews. Boy did they both suck.

Posted by: ed newman at February 26, 2010 10:06 PM

And is that James McAvoy with Jolie in the header pic? I saw it and thought, "Oh boy! Agelina is doing another lesbian movie."
Posted by: EricD at February 26, 2010 12:07 PM

He really does look alarmingly feminine in that picture. I'm gonna need to google the hell out of some shirtless pics of him to soothe my troubled mind.

Posted by: Squeeziee at February 27, 2010 9:00 AM

Talk about timing, Wanted was on HBO last night. I watch the whole thing and have to admit I was very entertained. But then I am an unabashed Jolie fan so maybe my opinion is scewed.

Posted by: EricD at February 27, 2010 9:46 AM

She died in wanted, so I agree with the zombie issue. On the other hand the plot of gravity intrigues me. Does she do an alien, Ripley underwear thing in it? If so I am so there.

Posted by: clancys_daddy at February 27, 2010 12:26 PM

Shoot Em Up was the shit!

You shut your mouth ed newman.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at February 27, 2010 1:52 PM

I never look forward to James McAvoy. He looks like he's going to burst into tears every minute he's on screen. Poor thing.

Posted by: Chickaboom at February 27, 2010 2:46 PM

As bad as the movie was, the comic was worse.

Posted by: Nicolae at February 27, 2010 9:35 PM

Ahem, Mythbusters did not bust the myth of curving bullets. They found that they couldn't do it just by swinging the gun around, but when they tampered with the bullets they found that they could make them do weird things. So maybe if they were to study exactly which modifications to the bullets made them do what, and maybe combined them with swinging the gun around and complicated wrist movements...

I will NOT have this fantasy ruined for me!

Posted by: James at February 28, 2010 4:18 AM

@ Chickaboom you'd be surprised if you see this movie as he looks like an angry/angsty teenager every minute he's on screen and his character is very very unlikeable.

Posted by: Amy at February 28, 2010 3:47 PM

Seeking the successful singles and take care of you - perhaps financially? http://euageless.com/ celebrates age gap dating and romance.

Posted by: Jim at February 28, 2010 9:36 PM

@Amy - if you mean Wanted, I have seen it. I guess you could say I'm not a fan of Mr. McAvoy.

Posted by: Chickaboom at March 1, 2010 9:41 AM

Oh Diest, I am so disappointed in you.

Posted by: ed newman at March 1, 2010 8:45 PM