Timur Berkmambetov Says ‘Wanted 2’ Will Be “Shocking”

It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything new on ‘Wanted 2’ and to be honest I think alot of people had kind of forgot about the project even. But recently during the press round for ‘Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter’ The Playlist spoke with Berkmambetov and he told them about the film being very much back on track.

“An unbelievable thing happened three weeks ago,” Bekmambetov said “Because we stopped, we didn’t know what to do for three or four years. Three weeks ago I came up with a great idea and I pitched this idea and everybody fell in love with it. And now I think we’re on track. Right now the writer is working on the script, and it will be shocking.”

“It’s a continuation of the story, with Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy). Other people are dead, you know, we can’t bring them back. The story is the same character, same mythology, but it’s got a great twist.”

Now while ‘Wanted’ was quite dramatically different than the comics I thought it was a really good and well done movie. Here is hoping to a sequel that lives up to it.

Wanted is a 2008 German-American action film, very loosely based on the comic book miniseries of the same name by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones. The film is written by Chris Morgan, Michael Brandt, and Derek Haas, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, and stars James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Common, Terence Stamp, and Konstantin Khabensky. The storyline follows Wesley Gibson (McAvoy), a frustrated Account Manager who discovers that he is the son of a professional assassin and decides to join The Fraternity, the secret guild in which his father worked. Production began in April 2007, with filming in the Czech Republic later to superimpose the sets on images of Chicago. Wanted was released on June 25, 2008 in the United Kingdom and two days later in the United States, to both critical and commercial success. It was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing.