<![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu - io9 Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu - io9 Comments]]> http://io9.com Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:03:02 PST Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:03:02 PST http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4605419 Pretty.

And I don't mean Angelina.

Jonn

]]> 8:364811:c4605419 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:03:02 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4588607 I see Morgan Freeman and Samuel L. Jackson are competing for the title of "Most Token Black Guy In A Lily White Action Flick".

Kiamat

]]> 8:364811:c4588607 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:58:01 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4586795 That looks industrial-grade silly.

Not always a bad thing, but often.
-Kle.


Klebert L. Hall

]]> 8:364811:c4586795 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:54:40 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4585875 I mean if you are expecting to see a plausible story line this is not the movie to see. The viper's roof clipped a crack in the asphalt and it flipped over a gang of cop cars onto a tractor trailer (perfectly 4 point landing btw) and drove off. Oh, and the bending of bullets...

but uh, Angie drives a car with her feet and looks oh so sexy doing it. I'll be there.

toopersent

]]> 8:364811:c4585875 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:11:23 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4584965 Since this is based on something by Millar, I'm wondering how they're going to incorporate the usual message that the audience is a bunch of semi-functioning mouth-breathing idiots.

UTC

]]> 8:364811:c4584965 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:16:13 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4584819 before i saw the trailer i would have put this as the flop of the year because it bears so little resemblance to the comic that they are advertising it as being from, but now well it might be a big hit. As long as they are prepared for every review in every scifi and comic mag to start with the complaint that it bears no relation to the comic that it is based on.
My main worry is the fact that it might just be too cool visuals without any bother to worry about a script, after all the comic was so good that changing so much the writers will have to justify every change.


kevinjwoods

]]> 8:364811:c4584819 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:01:52 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4584498 Why bother paying Millar royalities and licensing the product if the end result is something completely different?

Changing the story to a bog standrad Hollywood blockbuster worjed so well for the LXG movie after all

Midnightxpress

]]> 8:364811:c4584498 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:09:55 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4582527 @woodforbrains: Appalachia.

codydog

]]> 8:364811:c4582527 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:19:35 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4580516 Please tell me this movie isn't going to rest on the ability to bend the trajectory of bullets. Or our willingness to go along with such a plot device. Please.

There's a headstone carver in Appallacia getting really excited about this movie.

woodforbrains

]]> 8:364811:c4580516 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:20:30 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4579497 bravo, another action film founded on shoddy utilitarian, quasi-hedonistic ethics saving the world. Another Hollywood dazzler no doubt. *cackle*
Yay for simple pleasures. :)

botanicidal

]]> 8:364811:c4579497 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:06:06 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4579318 @CMG: lol! I could almost hear this kid say that... because I texted by friend the same thing!

CmdrHunt

]]> 8:364811:c4579318 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:54:43 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4578627 Morgan Freeman is now the Obi-Wan of everything except LOTR, Harry Potter, and...well...Star Wars of course.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> 8:364811:c4578627 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:20:06 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4578151 Wait, this is another comic book movie

*pokes Hollywood with Stick

Ey, wake up darnit!

Klappstuhl

]]> 8:364811:c4578151 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:57:22 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4577550 looks like

(Chuck + Men in Black) / The Matrix

se7a7n7

]]> 8:364811:c4577550 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:29:59 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4577187 Gun Fu. Nobody beats John Woo for it. Equilibrium? The so called Gun Fu seemed to be "stand totally still in the center of a bunch of gunmen and flail."

This one is so much better. Spin the bullet? Seriously? Putting english on a bullet? You know that bullets spin already, right? It's called rifling. And we do it so they'll go straight.

I know that there's no way they can do the original story because it's way too comic book nerdy. But it feels like we traded it for substanceless style. And that doesn't go far with me.

dshramek

]]> 8:364811:c4577187 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:16:06 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4576888 @Annalee Newitz: As Log1c points out, he was in Children of Dune, so you've got an opening to do one of those triviagasms on that. No, really you should... he's come along way since Faun Tumnus ;-)

Jack

]]> 8:364811:c4576888 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:05:29 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4576426 I haven't read the original graphic novel, so with that in mind I feel I'm ok to say that this looks retardedly fun in a Transporter kind of way.

SpaceMonkeyX

]]> 8:364811:c4576426 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:50:34 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4576179 The only thing this adaptation has going for it is that in the Wanted universe, this is the movie the Villians would release as a joke just to throw everyone off the scent of how things really are. So on that semi-meta level, great... I would've liked a comic accurate version, especially for the scene where Adam West gets fed to sharks because he's forgotten he really was Batman.

Fraxinus

]]> 8:364811:c4576179 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:40:58 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4575984 Can I still ask for the faithful Millar adaptation?

While it may not be necessary, per se, I think it would end up a lot better than what this looks like.

thorshammer

]]> 8:364811:c4575984 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:34:12 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4575832 the league of extraordinarily attractive gentlemen (plus woman)

if the number of slow motion bullets in the movie exceeds the number of slow motion bullets in then there's not much chance of the plot keeping pace with the visuals.

tetracycloide

]]> 8:364811:c4575832 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:29:12 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4575561 James McAvoy is badass for the Children of Dune mini so I'll see it for that reason. Also hot women (woman?) plus guns and explosions = if all else fails, Ill be entertained..

Log1c

]]> 8:364811:c4575561 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:19:15 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4575540 @twreckx: So true! Good clip!!!

thethrizzle

]]> 8:364811:c4575540 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:18:36 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4575361 I'd be more excited if it looked like this shared anything besides a name with the comic book it's supposedly based on, the excellent Mark Millar book Wanted.

JosephFinn

]]> 8:364811:c4575361 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:12:57 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4575243 This has been online for a couple of weeks now.... I saw this on IMDB. I agree with MysticleRogue, lets hope that the story can keep up.

thethrizzle

]]> 8:364811:c4575243 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:08:57 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4575160 Sweet. A Viper. I'm a Mopar kind of guy.

CSX321

]]> 8:364811:c4575160 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:06:13 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4574961 This was a better trailer than the one I saw in the theater last weekend. That one was basically the guy running down the street and getting scooped up by AJ in the red car. Nothing whatsoever about super-assassins, gun-fu, and picking one's destiny.

Might actually go and see this now.

Ravac

]]> 8:364811:c4574961 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:00:13 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4574911 No one beats Christian Bale when it comes to Gun-fu. Full stop (or period, whatever floats your boat).


+ Watch video


twreckx

]]> 8:364811:c4574911 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:58:49 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4574778 saw a teaser for this a couple of weeks ago, and one of the 13 yr old boys in the audience called his bud to tell him, "Dude! you just missed the awesomest trailer ever!"

CMG

]]> 8:364811:c4574778 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:55:19 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4574517 Looks like a very visually driven film. Let's just hope that the plot can keep up.

MysticleRogue

]]> 8:364811:c4574517 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:47:19 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4574512 James McAvoy is my new boyfriend fer rillz. I wish he could have curved some bullets in Atonement.

Annalee Newitz

]]> 8:364811:c4574512 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:47:15 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4574489 What more could I want?
Oh, a good movie.
Which this, in all odds, won't be.

Plague

]]> 8:364811:c4574489 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:46:37 PST <![CDATA[Morgan Freeman Is The Obi-Wan Of Gun-Fu]]> http://io9.com/364811/morgan-freeman-is-the-obi+wan-of-gun+fu#c4574132 Well the wife likes Mr. McAvoy and Ms. Jolie is rather easy on the eys so, there's that, and it looks kinda sweet!

Gyrus

]]> 8:364811:c4574132 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:36:30 PST