Wanted [WS] [DVS Enhanced]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov helms his first English-language feature film with this big-screen adaptation of Mark Millar's action-packed graphic novel. Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a cube-dwelling hypochondriac whose uneventful life has become a mundane blur of terminal boredom. Repeatedly humiliated by his boss and constantly cuckolded by his cheating girlfriend, weakling Wes seems to be living right down to everyone's expectations that he would never amount to anything in life. However, upon discovering that the father he never knew has been brutally murdered, the spineless, clock-punching pushover is recruited into a secret society of assassins known as the Fraternity. During the course of his training, the man who was once an office-bound wimp develops lightning-fast reflexes and superhuman dexterity courtesy of his skilled mentor Fox (Angelina Jolie). Upon completing his training, Wes is assigned the task of dealing out death to the mythological Fates, who possess the ability to alter the lifelines of mortal men. It isn't long before the nebbish nerd-turned-agile assassin is erasing the bad guys with surprising efficiency, yet as Wes begins to carry the mantle passed down to him by his father, he gradually begins to suspect that his wise tutors are not the crime-fighting enforcers they present themselves to be. Now, with everything he ever wanted in life finally within his grasp, Wes is about to find out that the only thing more difficult than ending the lives of others is summoning the courage to take control of his own. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Sound Editing - 2008 (Wylie Stateman)
•     Nominated Best Sound Mixing - 2008 (Chris Jenkins, Petr Forejt, Frank A. Montaño)

• Broadcast Film Critics Association

•     Nominated Best Action Movie - 2008

• Los Angeles Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2008

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       James McAvoy - Wes Gibson
       Morgan Freeman - Sloan
       Angelina Jolie - Fox
       Terence Stamp - Pekwar
       Thomas Kretschmann - Cross
       Common - The Gunsmith
       Kristen Hager - Cathy
       Marc Warren - The Repairman
       David Patrick O'Hara - Mr. X
       Konstantin Khabensky - The Exterminator
       Dato Bakhtadze - The Butcher
       Chris Pratt - Barry
       Lorna Scott - Janice

• Director:

  Timur Bekmambetov

• Producer:

  Iain Smith, Marc E. Platt, Jim Lemley, Jason Netter

• Screen Story:

  Michael Brandt

• Screenwriter:

  Michael Brandt

• Screen Story:

  Derek Haas

• Screenwriter:

  Derek Haas, Chris Morgan

• Book Author:

  Mark Millar, J.G. Jones

• Cinematographer:

  Mitchell Amundsen

• Composer (Music Score):

  Danny Elfman

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Kathy Nelson

• Editor:

  David Brenner

• Production Designer:

  John Myhre

• Supervising Art Director:

  Tomas Voth

• Art Director:

  David Baxa, Martin Vackar, Patrick Sullivan

• Executive Producer:

  Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Marc Silvestri, Adam Siegel

• Costume Designer:

  Varya Avdyushko

• Casting:

  Mindy Marin