As someone who liked the absurdity of the Wanted comic, I’m sad that they seem to have pretty much removed everything about the comic that makes it what it is. If I knew nothing about this film being made, then watched this trailer without sound, I wouldn’t think it was anything more than your typical action shoot-em-up. Hell, even once seeing it was titled “Wanted”, I wouldn’t have though it had any connection to the comic book.
What gets me is that even with all the changes being made, they couldn’t even give us some visual representation to let us know, “hey, this is clearly based on the Mark Millar comic!”. Any other comic book movie, you’d be about to KNOW what comic the film is based on, even if you watched a trailer without sound, and didn’t know that any film was being made. You’re adapting one visual medium to another visual medium, there should be a visual relation back to the source material! And sometimes, it’s just little things. While I enjoy Constantine (yeah, I said it!), I can’t help but gripe that with all the liberties taken with the source, they couldn’t even bother to have the character LOOK how he looks in the comic. Would it have really killed them to have Keanu wear a tan overcoat? They couldn’t dye his hair?
