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. 

some sexuality 

And the

some sexuality 

with Angelina is just a bonus.  

Oh good additions, Leestu. I haven't seen "To Kill a Mockingbird" since high school but Stand by Me was one of my favorite childhood movies about 8 years before I knew it was Stephen King. LOTR would have the same problem that any large novel/series would. Trying to cut too much out to make a movie of a watchable length rarely works. Even at almost 9 hours LOTR cut out quite a bit. LOL And yeah they are classics and hard to live up to that level of perfection. Jackson did a great job but sometimes books just beat movies.