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Wanted in Russia

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 am by Jami

Angelina Jolie with shotgun.
“I hate tailgaters!”

Reader Devin Wolfe sent along this interview with Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov who also directed Night Watch and Day Watch, two movies that I freaking love! There were a lot of changes made to the script when adapted from the comics, especially regarding the villains. According to Bekmambetov:

The comic book was like a bible for me, and every time when I had a problem trying to understand what to do for the movie, I read the comic book again and there were all the answers. It was important for me to protect and to develop the ironic tone of the comic book and to save the unique character of Wesley was important. The mythology was changed because the story with supervillains was good but there are too many iconic characters and I don’t know who had the rights for that.

Licensing nightmare anyone? I guess sometimes directors know what they’re doing when they deviate from the source material.

Also, regarding that awesome Russian trailer for the film, apparently Bekmambetov cut and entire new version of the film for Russian audiences with a translation written by the writer of Night Watch and Day Watch. I hope that version gets released on the U.S. DVD. I’d love to do a side-by-side comparison.

Looks like a double feature weekend for me! Wanted and Wall-E!

[Via Superhero Hype]

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2 Responses to “Wanted in Russia”

  1. AvatarJack T Robyn
    Posted: Jun 23rd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
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    I saw those two in reverse order, and I still thought they were awesome. A solid and neccessary reminder that there are fantasy studios outside of Hollywood.

    And New Zealand.

    And China.

    And Spain.

    And England . . . fuck it, nevermind . . .

  2. AvatarWayne
    Posted: Jun 24th, 2008 at 8:49 am
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    I really enjoyed the concept of the graphic novel, it was brilliant. But to change them from supervillains to assassins just doesn’t ring true to me. I’ll still see it, but I’m going to have to divorce myself from the comic.

    And they could have done the villains from the comic, the writer did a fine job of anonymizing them from their Marvel/DC origins. They were still recognizable. He just didn’t want to do a supervillain movie.

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