Wanted

Category: 13
All Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA, Germany
Runtime: 110
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Sound: SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital
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Writing by: Michael Brandt – (screenplay) &
Derek Haas – (screenplay) and
Chris Morgan – (screenplay)
Michael Brandt – (story) &
Derek Haas – (story)
Mark Millar – (comic book series) and
J.G. Jones – (comic book series)

Produced by: Gary Barber – executive producer
Roger Birnbaum – executive producer
Sally French – co-producer
J.G. Jones – co-producer
Jeff Kirschenbaum – executive producer
Geyer Kosinski – executive producer
Jared LeBoff – co-producer
Jim Lemley – producer
Mark Millar – co-producer
David Minkowski – co-producer
Jason Netter – producer
Marc E. Platt – producer
Adam Siegel – executive producer
Marc Silvestri – executive producer
Iain Smith – producer
Matthew Stillman – co-producer
Vitaliy Versace – co-executive producer

Cast: James McAvoy – Wesley Gibson
Morgan Freeman – Sloan
Angelina Jolie – Fox
Terence Stamp – Pekwarsky
Thomas Kretschmann – Cross
Common – Gunsmith
Kristen Hager – Cathy
Marc Warren – The Repairman
David O'Hara – Mr. X
Konstantin Khabensky – The Exterminator
Dato Bakhtadze – The Butcher

Music: Danny Elfman
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Plot Outline: A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.
Plot: A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps.
The anxious, clumsy and abused office clerk Wesley Allan Gibson has a hell and boring routine life: his obese boss humiliates him all the time and his girlfriend betrays him with his colleague and best friend during working period. When he meets the sexy Fox, Wesley is informed that his father was a professional killer that belonged to an ancient organization called Fraternity and killed by the skilled and powerful Cross, a hit-man that has betrayed the Fraternity. Wesley learns that his anxiety actually is a manifestation of his latent abilities and he joins the society under the command of Sloan. Trained by Fox, he changes his personality and attitude, being prepared to face the dangerous Cross and find a hidden secret.

Movie Quotes: Sloan: It a choice, Wesley, that each of us must face: to remain ordinary, pathetic, beat-down, coasting through a miserable existence, like sheep herded by fate – or you can take control of your own destiny and join us, releasing the caged wolf you have inside. Our purpose is to maintain stability in an unstable world – kill one, save a thousand. Within the fabric of this world, every life hangs by a thread. We are that thread – a fraternity of assassins with the weapons of fate. This is the decision that lies before you now: the sheep, or the wolf. The choice is yours.


Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
There are no opening credits. The title appears as a headline on a newspaper well into the movie.

Goofs: We know about 23 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Wesley Gibson has been tied to the chair and had his face punched, there is a clear cut on the bridge on his nose which disappears then re-appears in some shots.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• This is Director Timur Bekmambetov's first American film.
• Originally a comic book by Top Cow Productions written by Mark Millar.
• In the office at the end of the film a nameplate is visible on one of the cubicle walls. The nameplate reads “J.G Millar” which is a composite of writer Mark Millar and artist J.G. Jones, on whose comic the film is based.

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