Angelina Jolie "Wanted" Box Office
Angelina Jolie is the lead actress in Wanted, an R-Rated assassin thriller based on Mike Millar and J.G. Jones’ independent comic book limited series, and raked in $51.1 million.
I guess the irony about the whole thing is:
Most people don’t know Wanted is based on a COMIC BOOK.
Those that do know that it is an adaptation realize that Hollywood took many liberties with the source material.
I only hope that Millar and Jones made money by selling the rights to it. Somehow I doubt they made $1 million….
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Saw a screening of WANTED a few days before it opened, and its terrific reception across an apparently wide demographic doesn’t much surprise me, since they mostly get it right, stripping out all the “DC Universisms” from Millar’s original (for those who came in late, it started life as a rejected Elseworlds pitch about a war among supervillains ” the world has been invisibly divvied up between Lex Luthor, The Joker, Vandal Savage, Deathstroke, I think The Toyman and I forget who else ” on the day after The Day Evil Won… wait, does this mean Millar actually beat Morrison to ground for a change?… and Millar’s big jest is that the population never even notices) and Hong Konging up martial arts skills into quasi-superpowers. I was amused to see review after review citing how the film is big on action and short on “heart” ” well, duh; that’s like saying a rock concert puts too much emphasis on electric guitar and not enough on ukulele – though almost none mentioned there’s not one damn thing in the movie (well, okay, one) that you can’t see coming a million miles off (I saw the film with someone who didn’t even know it had started as a comic, and she figured out practically everything that would happen miles in advance, but there’s a certain joy is seeing what you know will happen play out in a satisfying way. Much of the film is very funny, the action scenes are well played and at least slightly original, and everything else is so completely over the top that what would have been pretty creepy had they played it at all seriously but instead they made the longest and possibly the best TOM AND JERRY cartoon in history. Someone I know worried that its success ” it came respectably close to unseating WALL-E as #1 film of the week, far better than anticipated ” will just encourage Millar. Well, there are worse things…