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Wanted Writers: "We Wanted To Keep It Real"

You may be wondering just why the trailer to comic book adaptation Wanted seems to bear little relationship to Mark Millar and JG Jones' original, replacing Eminem-esque trainee supervillains and a sub-Fight Club plot with something that looks like a second cousin of The Matrix. The answer is pretty simple: The writers didn't apparently know where the story was going when they started work on the movie, and changed things to keep it closer to what they'd been expecting. More »

8:40 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Graeme McMillan
2,505 views, 27 comments

Latest by Agent_spanky: @ Smeagol92055 Shit I'd go see that, whens that coming out? Kurt Wimmer directing? more »

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Secrets Of Iron Man And Heroes Season 3

We have a whole weekend's worth of spoilers to digest, in one extremely massive spoiler-blast. A ton of new reviews of Iron Man came out, including loads of ironclad plot details and a couple dozen photos. There are also pics and video which reveal a new villain in the next Doctor Who Christmas special, now being filmed. We also learned a ton of new info about the storylines of Heroes season three, and a few snippets about the tail end of Lost season four. Plus there are new stills from The Dark Knight, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Hancock, and a few details about Wanted. We've gone spoiler crazy, and we're taking you with us. More »

6:00 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
7,529 views, 22 comments

Latest by Balius: Am I the only one who found the trailer to Hancock to not suck nearly as much as was expected? Granted, some parts were kind of hokey to me, but the bar's been set pretty low for movies of more »

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The Crazy Scene You Won't See In "Wanted"

We were already excited about Wanted after seeing some footage at Wondercon, but the extended and deleted scenes we saw at New York Comic-Con sealed the deal for us. Wanted looks like it has enough slow motion, heart pounding chase scenes to give the slow-mo fight king The Matrix a run for its money. Director Timur Bekmambetov gave away some new plot details and explained why he chose not to put the characters in their comic-book garb. Minor spoilers ahead. More »

1:30 PM on Sun Apr 20 2008
By Meredith Woerner
6,065 views, 35 comments

Latest by hyperpat: @braak: You seem to think that there's no need for a movie adaptation of a book to be faithful to the book just because the book is already written, that the words are already there for anyone to peruse? I more »

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Guess Who's Back On Heroes Next Year!

As usual, we've done the hard stuff for you ahead of time in Morning Spoilers. This time around, that includes sifting out the "April Fools" stuff that people started posting a day early. We've included some of it for Lost and X-Files 2, but it's clearly labeled. And there are genuine spoilers for Wanted, Doctor Who, Smallville, Heroes and the next Superman movie. Plus new promo pics from Speed Racer and Battlestar Galactica. You won't be fooled, but you will be spoiled. More »

6:00 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
7,802 views, 23 comments

Latest by Moneepennee: Where did the Cally suicide spoiler come from? I must have missed that one. more »

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Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu

The trailer for Wanted, the super-assasin movie starring James McAvoy, just went online, and we're beyond excited. There's some homely gun-wisdom from Morgan Freeman, and some life coaching from Angelina Jolie. What more could you want? Besides a faithful recreation of Mark Millar's graphic novel, which isn't that necessary really.

12:23 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,748 views, 32 comments

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Big SciFi Flicks This Year Will Make Good Look Evil

At WonderCon over the weekend, everybody was talking about a handful of spring/summer scifi flicks that all had one thing in common: the kind of moral ambiguity that would never fly in Superman. We saw an action-packed clip from Wanted, whose superheroes are assassins with a mission to control the world's destiny that sounds creepily like the tenets of Scientology. No fighters for truth and justice these — they're just using their powers to become godlike. Get ready for a giant moral gray area in other flicks coming your way, like Iron Man, the new X-Files flick, and Starship Troopers III. Get a quick look at all three below. More »

10:10 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Annalee Newitz
4,633 views, 13 comments

Latest by superbryant88: @_MARVKO_: holy crap that would be sweet more »

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"Wanted" Footage Ripped The Top Layer of Our Eyeballs Off

We got to see a special preview of footage from Wanted, a super-assassin movie based on a comic book by Mark Millar (creator of Marvel's Civil War series), and starring Angelina Jolie as a scary, tattooed killer. Director Timur Bekmambetov couldn't be here, but star James McAvoy was able to answer a bunch of questions. First, however, let's talk about 5-minute clip we saw, which was full of eyeball-peeling action and the only example I have ever seen on film in which there is a combination of upskirting, spicy-handed shooting, car-chasing, and head-in-thigh-pincer action. More »

7:56 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Annalee Newitz
5,793 views, 15 comments

Latest by ggodo: Having never read the comic, I can safely say that I will not be whining about how unlike the comic it is when I go see it. more »