ROTTEN TOMATOES: Trailer Bulletin: Bending Bullets And More Angelina Jolie In The Second Wanted Trailer

Trailer Bulletin: Bending Bullets And More Angelina Jolie In The Second Wanted Trailer

Directed with a familiar flair from Night Watch helmer Timur Bekmanbetov.

by Jen Yamato | March 05, 2008

RT's nabbed the exclusive new trailer for Wanted, Universal's high-octane assassin thriller starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. And if you're a fan of the Russian fantasy-horror Night Watch trilogy, you have even more reason to get excited.

If you've seen any of Timur Bekmanbetov's Night Watch movies (part three, Twilight Watch, is supposedly in production) then you should feel an instant familiarity with the new trailer for Wanted, Bekmanbetov's English-language and Hollywood debut. Adapted from a limited-run comic book series by Mark Millar, Wanted is about a bookish young man (James McAvoy) who discovers that his late father was a super assassin and that he is next to join the ranks of a secret society of killers with superpowers led by Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie.

Click for more Wanted images.

RT scored the exclusive new trailer for Wanted today (watch it here!), which should spark even more interest than when the first trailer and images (and those pics of Angelina Jolie's fake tattooes) hit.

This new trailer goes way further to show us all the visual tricks and adrenaline-rush action that Bekmanbetov brings to the table. The aforementioned Night Watch and Day Watch films, box office record breakers in Russia, were awe-inspiring feats of special effects and invention similarly about a secret society of superpowered folk, some good and some evil, doing battle surreptitiously on the streets of modern-day Russia.

An image from Bekmanbetov's Wanted; an image from Day Watch.

Curious additional parallels abound between Wanted and Night/Day Watch: deadly battles between good and evil; superhuman characters living among the regular world; a male protagonist who stumbles into it all and discovers his own potential. Further, Bekmanbetov's cinematic flair in this second Wanted trailer -- high-speed chases, onscreen action that bends the laws of physics, clever displays like Jolie hanging out of a speeding car, driving with her foot and McAvoy "bending" a bullet -- should strike a note of recognition with fans of his horror-fantasy work. Bekmanbetov reportedly made both Night Watch and Day Watch for roughly $4 million each; it should be interesting to see what he can do with a Hollywood cast and a budget more than ten times that -- $50 million, to be exact.

Watch the second trailer for Wanted here to see for yourself; the pic hits theaters June 27.

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smi1ey writes:
on Mar 05 2008 08:47 PM

so i can't stand angelina, but this movie looks damn cool IMO. i mean, in the trailer alone i've seen like 8 things i've never seen in a movie before. pretty badass!

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A Lapse In Reason writes:
on Mar 05 2008 09:06 PM

Nightwatch was a really awesome/tripped out movie(saw it on XTC) that was way out there. They did this badass thing with the subtitles that made them part of the movie if that makes sense. I didn't know it only cost 4mill to make those, thats freaking crazy, American budgets are so ridiculous. Heres to hopin this will be good! Also I got to sat wow Angelina is smoking hot with those tats on her back.

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utzworld writes:
on Mar 05 2008 09:22 PM

I don't wanna hear any crap about this being rated PG-13! The ***t I just saw HAS TO BE R rated!

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Mister_Prophet writes:
on Mar 06 2008 12:17 AM

They already seem to be changing things from the comic a bit muchly. All they need to do is stick to the source material and they'll be set. We'll see about this one. If it's the same thing as the comic with only some racial exchanges (Fox goes Black to White, Professor White to Black) then I'll be happy.

Someone mentioned PG-13. I really hope not, that means 80% of what made the comic darkly funny is gone right there.

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Matanuki writes:
on Mar 06 2008 02:17 AM

These RT trailers never load right on my computer, not without constantly stopping to re-buffer. I'll wait til it's on Youtube or something. But if this film is anything like Day Watch, count me out.

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John Z. Delorean writes:
on Mar 06 2008 02:40 AM

I actually thought Nightwatch cost all of 2 dollars to make. It was horribly paced with a nice sequence in the beginning then alot of nap time throughout the flick. Wasn't he fighting vampires with a flourescent tube light?

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undead646 writes:
on Mar 06 2008 05:00 AM

Looks Great Cant Wait to see. And Love Angelina Jolie's real and fake tattoos

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Kimmycat24 writes:
on Mar 06 2008 07:23 AM

The second trailer looks better than the first. The 30 second trailer shown during the Super Bowl only gave me a taste. The I loved the sequences where Angelina Jolie is driving the Dodge Viper with her foot and where James McAvoy bends a bullet. I am looking forward to seeing this movie when it comes out.

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MattBaerFTW writes:
on Mar 06 2008 08:04 AM

ive never read the comic so i dont know...and im not going to till afterward if people are saying its different, because right now im seeing people bending bullets and jumping out of glass where the pieces look like a mosiac of the persons body as they jump...im so in

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digitalsoul68 writes:
on Mar 06 2008 08:33 AM

They should remove the name "Wanted" from this movie. This has about 5% to do with the comic. Boo.

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knowingtoast85 writes:
on Mar 06 2008 09:09 AM

Normal dweeb plucked from obscurity to discover his abilities as a killer. That's what this movie takes from the comic. Everything else, the superheroes, the sub-Fight Club commentary, the focus on supervillains as main characters, is all gone.

Not that I liked the comic, but I thought it was an interesting premise. I guess it's a little hard for me to swallow that these characters are no longer actual bad guys, but good guys who just have bad attitudes.

Looks like an orgy of unexciting bullet-time too. There's a distinct reason "The Matrix" used bullet-time. The movie's universe warranted it. Every movie jacking its swagger thereafter has no other reason to use it than how cool it looks. But when it doesn't look cool anymore, there's just no reason at all.

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BowieSwimmer writes:
on Mar 06 2008 09:20 AM

The movie uses only the FIRST issue of the "Wanted" comic as a source material.
The entire screenplay had been written after just one issue, and the writers realized that they were probably going to take a different route than the comic book writers.

I will admit that this has some definitely "Matrix" undertones...but if you're going to cop another film's sequences for a badass action film, it really isn't that bad of an idea. I think this film looks incredible. I also have a serious thing of Angelina, so that doesn't hurt.
I'm way excited.

I would much rather have this called something else, and then has another film that takes the entire "Wanted" series and presents that on screen.
It would be astounding, if done correctly. But there wouldn't be much room to mess up...

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on Mar 06 2008 11:45 AM

50 million for a summer actioner is cheap by hollywood standards.

If this film is as good as the trailer suggests, it does point out that a lot of the costs of making a hollywood film are B.S.

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eRACEr writes:
on Mar 19 2008 08:36 AM

I don't know anything about the comic, but I enjoyed Timur's action scenes in both Day and Nightwatch, and that's really all I'm expecting from Wanted. (Off the top of my head, the dividing and exploding ball end scene from Daywatch was pretty novel and cool.)

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kiss bang kill writes:
on Mar 20 2008 04:08 AM

This is horrible. It will be nothing like the graphic novel. Seriously, they need to take the "Wanted" name off of this and maybe it would be a decent film. But you cant say that a film is based off of a certain source and then go a different way.

"Assassins". Dumb. The graphic novel had nothing to do with assassins. It was about super villians that essentially killed off the heroes and ran the world. I see none of that in this trailer.

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