POW! Headbutt!

The only thing worse than idiotic movie-script writers is idiotic movie-script writers that act like they know what the fuck they're talking about.

Color them clueless. IT'S A COMIC BOOK!!!

I have to ask, why would you make a movie adaptation of a comic book that is still in the process of being published? What possible advantage do you get by not waiting a few months to see what happens. Or even better, ask the writer of said comic book. Millar didn't start a new series without a plot already scripted. If he was willing to see you the movie right, I'm sure he would have given you a heads up on the script if you had said please.

I've got no problem with it. I don't need to see a shit monster realized onscreen.

@NefariousNewt: That doesn't necessarily mean "super-hero." They thought they were adapting a crime comic and it turned out to be a super-villain comic. Just means someone should have asked questions before writing or accepting a check.

They should just say "fuck it" and remake Xanadu.

man, fuck these guys and their whole extended families. what kind of talentless hack do you have to be in order to produce such shit? some tell jfk that , apparently, you can in fact murder an idea.

in a perfect world, these artless motherfuckers would be eaten alive by a giant mechanical octopus.

ahhh, that felt good!

@BadThingUS: I take it you've never seen Dogma

I don't particularly care that they're not following the comic book. If I wanted a story that matched the comic, I'd read the comic book. However, I don't see how they could end up where they did by "keeping it real." Still, it looks like a big, fun, dumb action movie, and I enjoy those.

@Ryan H: Money money money mooooney

See, what *I* think is that the studios see comic book movies as a fad, like the armageddonesque movies and cop flicks were at one time as well.

So, in their eyes they need to push these movies out as quick as possible, banking on what could sell.

I could be wrong, though.

I want to love this movie in a way that is probably illegal in all 50 states.

I'll give the movie it's chance to wow me, but I firmly believe that the casting is completely and utterly wrong for most of the main characters (I like the idea of Morgan Freeman as Professor Solomon Seltzer, but I don't think he'll have the nuance depravity the Professor did in the comic).

And how about Mister Rictus? "I don't f*ck goats, Mister Gibson. I make love to them." Somehow I don't think we'll see that on the big screen.

Is there a German word like "Schadenfreude" that explains a feeling of excitement and despair? 'Cuz that's what I feel everytime I think about "Wanted".

So...I wonder what it was that attracted the screenwriters to the first issue. Was it the racist passive-aggresive doucebag main character? The Tommy Lee Jones stand in taping two male prostitutes having sex? The Hallie Berry stand in killing 20+ innocent people for no reason at all? The terrible terrible dialogue? Or the character named "Shithead?" whos' featured in the first issue?

I mean, how could you NOT want to make a movie about all those elements, even if you only wanted to use the title?

i'm confused, why is there a tacit assumption here that not strictly adhering to the original comic will make the move suck? i mean it will suck in the adaptation department but it could very easily still be a good R rated, summer-time, action flick without closly adhering to the form and function of the original material.

Ugh - Hollywood. They've got to piss all over stuff in order to make it their own. This is how we end up with a Peter Parker who doesn't have any real science skills and a Spider-Man with organic webs. Oh, and a ninja instead of a detective for Batman.

The writers didn't know where the story was going when they started so they changed it to match what they had in mind. Blarg! The next project for Haas and Brandt should be a film adaptation of "Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?"

Considering I read the hardback collection almost 3 years ago, what's these guys excuse? From comic one, I knew we were getting into some seriously weird shit.

Take a lesson from Akira kids, writing the movie while the final project is still being written can be awesome but it can also be very, very confusing.

@tetracycloide: Primarily because, once you've subtracted the essential structure of the Supervillain-Superhero world, you've got to replace it with something. And I don't have a lot of confidence in the ideas of two guys who decided to adapt a comic book after reading the first issue, and then changed their minds when it defied their expectations.

Though, it is true that the comic wasn't very good in the first place, so even strict adherence to the source material probably wouldn't have made a very good movie.

@BadThingUS: But to quote:

After the second issue, the comic book left the real world and went into a world where super-villains had rid the world of superheroes.

Apparently they lived deprived childhoods or something. It's kind of asinine to take the first book of a comic and build a movie out of it when the story is still unfolding.

@braak: Precisely. The first comic in a series rarely contains enough information to get the lay of the land -- it's intended as an attention grabber. Backstories alone may take 5 or 10 issues before you have enough to go on, and books are always going through plot twists.

This is Hollywood for you -- critical reasoning skills not required.

This director's output has all been incoprehensable, but pretty, correct?

I mean, I've never read a single review of ___watch that praised the plot, dialouge, or characters.

Now add pretentious screenwriters who don't get the genre at all, and you've got a hot mess.

Hell, it will be above expectations if it's a hot mess.

"Should we call Millar and ask him where this is going?"

"No, now let's make the black guy magic. Like Morgan Freeman."

"Dude! Let's get Morgan Freeman!"

"Brah!"

(Both remove shirts and chest bump.)

I want to punch this movie it its metaphorical cock so hard that my hand would exit from its mouth.

And I'll just say it and be done with it.
Anorexic Jolie is the anti-sexy.

One wonders how they handled the series end, which places responsibility for the boring-assed life you lead in your boring-assed hands.
Sounds like the height of cluelessness. For Every Iron Man we suffer a carload of Wanteds.

@Ryan H: Spot on. Your telling me these idiots started writing the script after the first comic?? Who in their right mind sees that as a smart move. Granted the start of wanted is "matrix"esque. But To take that at face value and not wait to see how it pans out seems stupid to me.

@matta_p: Ugh - Hollywood. They've got to piss all over stuff in order to make it their own. This is how we end up with a Peter Parker who doesn't have any real science skills

Might want to try watching Spiderman 2 there, champ.

@Keen314:

Yeah, I saw it.

Refresh my memory - which scene in that film would convey to a non-fanboy that Peter Parker has enough science chops to invent web fluid and web shooters?

And why would we have to wait until a sequel to see that element of the character fleshed out?

Seriously I hate comic books that are too comic booky, er comic-bookie, her comic booksie... er

Retard

@B:
Yeah, but if it's based on a comic book, it damn well better at least bear a passing resemblance to said book.
That'd be like making a movie based on the War of 1812 but instead, throwing out the source material and make it a racing movie with zombies and a score by Slipknot, and yet still calling it a movie based on the War of 1812.
Every history teacher in the world would want your balls.

@ Smeagol92055

Shit I'd go see that, whens that coming out? Kurt Wimmer directing?