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Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA, Germany
Runtime: 110
Rating: 8.4 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Sound: SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital
Taglines:

Writing by: Michael Brandt – (screenplay) &
Derek Haas – (screenplay) and
Chris Morgan – (screenplay)
Michael Brandt – (story) &
Derek Haas – (story)
Mark Millar – (comic book series) and
J.G. Jones – (comic book series)

Produced by: Gary Barber – executive producer
Roger Birnbaum – executive producer
Sally French – co-producer
Jeff Kirschenbaum – executive producer
Geyer Kosinski – executive producer
Jared LeBoff – co-producer
Jim Lemley – producer
David Minkowski – co-producer
Jason Netter – producer
Marc E. Platt – producer
Adam Siegel – executive producer
Marc Silvestri – executive producer
Iain Smith – producer
Matthew Stillman – co-producer

Cast: James McAvoy – Wesley Allan Gibson
Morgan Freeman – Sloan
Angelina Jolie – Fox
Terence Stamp – Pekwarsky
Thomas Kretschmann – Cross
Common – Gunsmith
Kristen Hager – Cathy
Marc Warren – The Repairman
David OHara – Mr. X
Konstantin Khabensky – The Exterminator
Dato Bakhtadze – The Butcher

Music: Danny Elfman
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Plot Outline: A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his fathers superhuman killing abilities.
Plot: “Wanted” tells the tale of one apathetic nobodys transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. In 2008, were introduced to a hero for a new generation: 25 year old employed slacker, WESLEY GIBSON. Wes is the most disaffected, cube-dwelling, clock-punching drone this planet has ever known. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows this disengaged slacker will amount to absolutely nothing, and so does he, until he meets the sexy, foxy woman named FOX, and then everything changes. Wes estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his fathers death, by unlocking his dormant powers. And oh boy does he have powers, as she teaches Wes how to develop his lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, he discovers that The Fraternity lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: to carry out the death orders given by emotionless Fate itself. Wes, with his wickedly brilliant and sexy tutor, plus the paternal guidance of The Fraternitys enigmatic leader, SLOAN, young Wes grows to enjoy all the strength and success he ever wanted. But, slowly, he realizes theres more to his dangerous associates than meets the casual eye. And, as he wavers between new found heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one can ever teach him; that he alone controls his destiny.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
There are no opening credits. The title appears as a headline on a newspaper well into the movie.

Goofs: We know about 15 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Wesley Gibson has been tied to the chair and had his face punched, there is a clear cut on the bridge on his nose which disappears then re-appears in some shots.

Trivia: There are 9 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• This is Director Timur Bekmambetovs first American film.
• Originally a comic book by Top Cow Productions written by Mark Millar.
• In the office at the end of the film a nameplate is visible on one of the cubicle walls. The nameplate reads “J.G Millar” which is a composite of writer Mark Millar and artist J.G. Jones, on whose comic the film is based.