Wanted is barely a comic book adaptation at all, more a plot adaptation. It's still a well executed film but it holds little of the original comic book.

Having said that, I liked the comic but it was flawed and whilst the adaptation was silly (Looms?) it was fairly well executed as an action film and had less clunky moments. There are some really sour moments though, anything mystical or weird is just a failure and bizzare, why not just have a league of assassins than bother with bendy bullets and wax healings, etc.

I really wanted to see Elijah wood give the comics closing line though, what we got instead was a very poor line instead.

igniz wrote:

If someone hired me to adapt Wanted I would try to include as little as possible of the source material as well.

darkman wrote:



Awwww man. I dug both.

TBH, I can really understand people not liking either the Wanted film or the Wanted comic, though what the wanted film kept in was the bits I suspect Darkman didn't like.

Mark Millar is an odd writer. Some people look at the wanted comic and think of it as some kind of wish fulfilment, I see it more as a subversive horror. Similarly with Kick-Ass which can be viewed in different ways. The "Sickening Violence, just the way you like it" is either ironic or true.

Lord Byron Pitt wrote:


I really loved American Splendor. The idea fascinated me too, that a man chronicled his life in comic book form. I really mean to read more of the original comic sometime.

Wanted was ok, nothing special. I saw The Losers recently and I agree with White Phoenix, it was just really a generic actioner. Spider-Man and Sin City are two of my favourite comic book movies.

igniz wrote:

Any adaption of Wanted that omitts stuff like Shitface and lines like "this is me fucking you in the ass" while adding stuff like a semi nude Angelina Jolie is a good adaption. To succesfully adapt a Mark Millar story you have to remove as much as possible as you can from that story and add as much semi nude Angelina Jolie as humanely possible.