Freeman is Wanted
Morgan set to sign on the line f🐲or Universal’s graphic novel adaptation
Iron Man? Sounds great. The Watchmen? Aဣ release date would be nice. No, the comic book-to-screen project that has our legs quivering is Mark Millar’s Wanted.
Russian helmer Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch) makes his English language debut with the tale about a mummies-boy called Wesley who finds out ♏his father is a deadly assassin, known as The Killer.
After daddy gets whack🅠ed, Wesley discovers he has inherited his old man’s shooting skills and is recruited into a world of deadly ꧃killers and merciless hit men.
Morgan Freeman is in the final stages of talks to play Sloan, the man charged with traini🌟ng wet-behind-the-ears Wesley – who willꦇ be fleshed out by Scot thesp James McAvoy.
Which, we have to say, is an improvement on Millar’s first choice - E🍰minem. Shocking!
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