Written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas while directed by Timur Bekmambetov, Wanted was released in 2008. The production companies involved with Wanted was Top Cow Productions, Relativity Media, Spyglass Entertainment and Universal Studios.
Key cast for this film includes actors of the likes of Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy, with Angeline Jolie being our main actress. Wanted is an action thriller based on the comic 'The Gunsmith'. This film has a key theme of deception but is also a coming of age film that involves friendship.
Wanted had a massive budget of $75,000,000 and received £3,814,055 during its opening weekend in the UK alone.
It went on to win 2 major awards; an Empire award for best superhero, played by James McAvoy, and a CinEuphoria award for best actress which was Angeline Jolie.
It's about a young man who finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps. He is trained to assassinate the man that killed his father, but there is a twist.
The trailer for this film is below: