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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

This looks very good too I have to say....it stars James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp and Marc Warren

I think its out next week in cinemas

Synopsis:
"Wanted" tells the tale of one apathetic nobody's transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, we're introduced to a hero for a new generation: 25 year old employed slacker, WESLEY GIBSON. Wes is the most disaffected, cube-dwelling, clock-punching drone this planet has ever known. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows this disengaged slacker will amount to absolutely nothing, and so does he, until he meets the sexy, foxy woman named FOX, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's death, by unlocking his dormant powers. And oh boy does he have powers, as she teaches Wes how to develop his lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, he discovers that The Fraternity lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: to carry out the death orders given by emotionless Fate itself. Wes, with his wickedly brilliant and sexy tutor, plus the paternal guidance of The Fraternity's enigmatic leader, SLOAN, young Wes grows to enjoy all the strength and success he ever wanted. But, slowly, he realizes there's more to his dangerous associates than meets the casual eye. And, as he wavers between new found heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one can ever teach him; that he alone controls his destiny

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6237

It's certainlly got a great cast and going off the trailer that's been on tv lately, it looks fast paced and action packed. I like the whole loser becoming a hero with amazing powers storyline........definitely my kind of film

Is it based on a comicbook Luc cause it sounds like it should be?

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

It is based on a comic book but it was only a short lived comic...and its not from a big comics crowd either.. I have never read it but it does sound like a good premise...anfd I'm like youI like thes kind of stories of a loser discovering he's special kind of thing

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6237

When I read the storyline I wondered if JJ Abrams had anything to do with it at first cause parts of it remind me of his tv show Alias.

Wanted has a young man whose estranged father was a member of a secret organisation led by Sloan...........Alias has a young woman who's estranged from her father and discovers he's a member of a secret organisation.....led by a Sloane

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

Very good thinking babe

I never realised the connection...you see your much more than a pretty face

I wonder is it a coincidence or a real connection now??
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6237

Thanks Luc

I can't see any connection to JJ Abrams and I don't think the Wanted writers wote for Alias too.....so it looks like one of those strange coincidences that crop up sometimes!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

No probs

It is a strange one alright..
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6237

But if it was based on a comic in the first place....did JJ Abrams read the comic when he was younger and that's why he came up with the similar storyline for Alias?!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9674

I don't think the comic is that old...I must fiond out which one came out first Alias or the Wanted comic?
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