Myspace has got its eager little hands on a cracking new trailer for Wanted, which you can watch here. Universal has also supplied us with some new hi-res images, which you can see below and click to see larger. Wanted, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, stars James McAvoy as a man inducted into a guild of assassins by Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.
The message of this movie would seem to that killing people without remorse makes you really, really sexy. Given how cool everything in this trailer looks and how attractive everyone is, we're prepared to get behind that message*.
This new trailer also makes it very clear that this will be almost nothing like the comic book that inspired it. Given that, to the particular writer's mind, the comic book had interesting ideas but was often irritatingly juvenile, that's probably no bad thing. If this takes the core of that story and adds its own screwy physics, glossy visuals and lots of pretty people in the semi-nude, then we could be in for quite a time when this hits cinemas.
*We're not really. Please don't actually think about going out and killing people, you whackjob. Murderers are never sexy. Even Bonnie and Clyde weren't all that, despite what legend says. They just had some snappy clothes and knew how to pose against a car.