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DC: What are you working on now? What do you have planned for the future?

DH: We’re just finishing up a book adaptation for Universal of the James Siegel novel Deceit. We’ve been hired to write the sequel to Wanted by the same studio. And we’ve got a few more things in the hopper that it’s a little premature to talk about.

DC: If you can, talk about your involvement in Wanted and Spy Hunter.

DH: Wanted has been terrific. We first started working on it when only the first issue of the comic came out, and as the book became crazier and crazier, we tried to keep the script grounded. Timur Bekmambetov is directing and has been interesting and gratifying to work with. The movie is going to be a gigantic, hard-R action movie that we hope will satisfy the comic fans. With Spy Hunter, we worked on it along with who knows how many other screenwriters. I don’t think anything we wrote is going to end up in the movie.

DC: What do you mean by keeping the script for Wanted “grounded”? More broadly, do you read any comics or graphic novels? What’s it been like adapting a comic?

DH: After the second issue, the comic book left the real world and went into a world where super-villains had rid the world of superheroes. It was sort of a mafia story told against that backdrop. So we kept that tone and dynamic, but kept it mostly in the real world, though we do play with things like physics, so it is still a heightened world. It’s something you’ll see from the first trailer; it’s harder to explain here in print.

I grew up a huge Spider-Man fan and collected Amazing…, Web of…, Peter Parker…, and then the McFarlane Spider-Man when it started. I still have most of what I collected, including #33 of Amazing’s “The Final Chapter,” though it’s not in very good shape. I’ve read quite a few graphic novels; there’s a manga one Michael and I have talked about doing more with called “The Drifting Classroom.” Adapting Wanted was a blast for us. We hope people dig the movie version.

Wow, I didn't expect Wanted to get an R.

But I do hope it is as amazing as it looks. Just without the shoddy CGI they showed in the trailer.

Exactly my sentiments. I really want this movie to be good, but what I've seen so far hasn't impressed me, if anything, it's turned me away from the film. The CGI looks awful really.

This probably won't get past the screenplay stage. I see the first one being a bomb.

Yeah, I was expecting Wanted to be rated PG-13, but instead its rated hard-R for "strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality." This could affect its box office. And yeah, I don't think it will make enough to get a sequel going.

Wow, a lot of support for Wanted. I guess I am not with the general concensus when I say that this movie looks really stupid. Too me, that is.

And to a sequel, I say: gross.

....it's just a Matrix rip-off......

rated hard-R for "strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexuality."

Ahh that's what I like to hear. I am so tired PG13 movies that have guns. Nothing about shooting people is PG13. This comic if made direct would have be damn near NC17.

And the

some sexuality

with Angelina is just a bonus.

Donte77 wrote:

And the
some sexuality
with Angelina is just a bonus.

And James McAvoy!

Does anyone know what is happening with Duskwatch? I haven't heard anything of it in ages. Just seems like maybe because Daywatch didn't succeed they just decided to focus on Wanted and forget about finishing the series.

Not that Im complaining about Wanted, Im very excited for this and besides in BO prospects am glad its rated R. This movie should kick ass.....and have some naked Angelina.

It will probably be 2011 when Dusk Watch (now titled Twilight Watch) happens. The director is waiting for US funding and for the first two to get larger followings in English-speaking countries to prepare (the third one's in English and will feature a different cast than the first two).

That's a shame that they are delaying the third part of the series. And changing the cast sounds like a terrible idea. It is a shame that money makes decisions and not art. Some movies should be made even when they may not make money.

With that said I agree about the naked Angelina. LOL That is a good reason to see a movie.

They shouldn't call it Twilight Watch, because that associates it with the third book in the Watch series, and I can tell you right now that it is going to have nothing to do with the plot of the Twilight Watch book. That was something that annoyed me about Day Watch. The movie Day Watch is actually the second half of the book Night Watch. The book Day Watch is acually about the bad guy Zavulon's girlfriend. See, the title then makes sense since it is actually about a member of the Day Watch.

That said, I do like those movie. Friggin' badass.

I haven't actually read the books although I always planned on it. I have found that if I watch a movie first and then read the book I am slightly disappointed. If I read the book before seeing the movie I am hugely disappointed. LOL

The only two instances from the top of my head where the movies did the books justice are One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and The Shawshank Redemption. I am sure there are a few others but not many. No Country for Old Men was not one of those movies. The book was simply one of the best ever written while the movie was merely good.

I will have to get around to reading the Nightwatch series though.

Man, I agree with you on the Cuckoos book, but that is because the book and the movie are so vastly different. Taking the narrative out of the perspective of the Indian just made it an entirely different expirience. One of my favorite books. And one of my favorite movies.

Good to know Wanted is Rated R now i want to see it even more.

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