Back in 2008, Timur Bekmambetov's Wanted, a comic book movie based on Mark Millar and J.G. Jones' limited series, opened in theaters. The comic never had a follow-up, but it's looking there has been some progress the movie receiving a sequel. During an interview with ComingSoon, Marc Platt says the script is underway and getting better. He also explains why it has taken a good amount of time to move forward with the project. “We have a script that’s getting pretty good. To do a sequel when it wasn’t really set up for a sequel – one of our main characters dies in it. You don’t want to just retread a similar story, but when we get the script to a certain bar, there will be a sequel. It’s taken a while because it’s challenging, as I said, because we lost a main, main character, so where that James McAvoy character goes now… we have good ideas though. It’s coming along.”
As for whether or not Mark Millar -- the writer of the limited series -- will be involved, Platt said he will be, but not when it comes to creating the screenplay. “He’s always going to be involved but he’s not going to write the screenplay which is far along, as I said, but he’s always going to be involved because the tone he puts forth is so much his tone and I think the film captured that dark humor of his really well.” Do you want to see a Wanted sequel, and, if so, do you think Bekmambetov should direct again?
Source: ComingSoon.net