At this point, there are many, many more fans of the movie Wanted than there are fans of the original graphic novel-- that's just the way things are going to go as more and more drawn characters get transformed into movie stars. So it's hard to know how many people will be upset by Wanted creator Mark Millar's minimal contributions to Wanted 2, which is currently in pre-production over at Universal.
""What I will be doing is providing them with a very small amount of stuff for a story, and that will be used as a basic story that they can build from," Millar told Newsarama (as reported by Dark Horizons). ""It will be a small outline that can possibly be picked apart and not used - but it will be something exclusively for the second film, and no one will ever really see it."
Reading between the lines here, it seems Millar will be providing screenwriters Derek Haas and Michael Brandt with a tiny bit of material, and they are free to run away with it or completely ignore it as they-- and the money-counting studio execs-- see fit. If Millar's suggestions make it through, though, fans of the comic book miniseries may see some familiar scenes they didn't find in the first movie. "It will be some of the stuff that we didn’t utilize from the first book for the movie – like chapters three and four. There will be some stuff from that, so in the loosest sense it will be based on the book, but only very little."
From what I've heard, the movie Wanted didn't bear all that much resemblance to the comic books-- they were originally supposed to be killing superheroes, for cryin' out loud!-- so I figured we would have to wait until Watchmen to see some serious anti-heroes. But does Millar's hint about resurrecting chapters from the original mean we'll see a darker Wanted next time around? Or will the studio, as the kids say, follow the money, and present us only with the super-violent anti-heroes they think we want to see?
