Mark Millar Talks Wanted 2

Wanted, that film with curving bullets which is loosley based on Mark Millar and JG Jones’ comic, is reaching a worldwide box office of $260 million so it's time to talk Wanted 2. Read on to see how Mark Millar will be involved in the sequel and why he is not doing a comic book follow up.

“At the premiere, everybody knew that it was going to make a lot of money, and we were all buzzing,” Millar told Newsarama. “On the way out, Mark Platt, the main producer put his arms around me and JG and said, ‘Okay, so what’s the plan for Wanted 2?’ I looked at him and said, ‘There is no plan,’ and he said to me, ‘Okay, well, have something for us next week.’”

So what plans does Mark Millar have? “What I will be doing is providing them with a very small amount of stuff for a story, and that will be used as a basic story that they can build from. It will be a small outline that can possibly be picked apart and not used – but it will be something exclusively for the second film, and no one will ever really see it.”

“It will be some of the stuff that we didn’t utilize from the first book for the movie – like chapters three and four – there will be some stuff from that, so in the loosest sense it will be based on the book, but only very little,” Millar said. “The nice thing about owning it and creator-owned properties is that JG and I will still be producers on the thing, and will still obviously get paid for the rights.”

Millar also reveals that as soon as the film opened to $55 million on its first weekend Wanted 2 and 3 were greenlit with James McAvoy signing on for another two movies.

Although fans of the comic book mini won't be seeing more Wanted in that form. “I’ve got this reputation of being a total whore, and even when I’m adamant about something like this, people don’t believe me, but there is nothing else coming from Wanted,” Millar said. “That six issues was the end. I love doing new stuff anyway – I get bored so quickly.”

There you go, another case of money = sequels (probably the only case these days). I wouldn't mind more big action set pieces in the sequel but I hated McAvoy's character and the plot was garbage. Anway, do you want more Wanted?