Another promising career goes down the tubes? Perhaps, we’ve seen it so many times with Asian Directors who create something exciting in their own country’s Movie Industry then move to Hollywood and fail to achieve what they thought they could. Well the latest defector is the writer\director of Night Watch, Timur Bekmambetov.
From Coming Soon the news is that he is to direct a movie called Wanted.
Wanted is based on the comic book series by Mark Millar. Marc Platt set up the series with Univeral last year and will produce with Jason Netter and Jim Lemley, with Marc Silvestri executive producing.
The protagonist in Wanted is a nebbishy white-collar worker who discovers his father is the world’s most evil supervillain. After his dad is murdered, the son is recruited into a covert organization and trained to take up his father’s legacy.
Now that does sound an interesting take, and the story is very much focusing on the non-Hollywood story direction, and I like that, there’s definitely a lot that can be explored here. Yet how much leeway will he get, and will the Studio just want to control more than Bekmambetov is used to? Who’s read the comics, can you give us some insight into the story?
Working with the Uwe Boll of the producing world is hardly a positive endorsement, lol.
Timur Bekmambetov has already worked in the US with Roger Corman, and is apparently co-producing a movie with Tim Burton called “9”. Let’s face it, it was only a matter of time before he went Hollywood…
No way they’re making Wanted into a movie? That’s so fucking cool.
I can’t believe they are making this POS comic book into a movie. I hope they keep the entire comic book script intact so people can feel real good about themselves for spending money on this movie.
When was the last time a foreign director got any kind of creative control over their Hollywood debut?
I mean The Ring Two was plagued by rumours of both a complete language barrier on set and incessant studio interference at every step. While he’s not completely blameless I kinda felt bad for Hideo Nakata.