We've seen Angelina Jolie be badass before (Gone in 60 Seconds, Lara Croft, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, etc.). But maybe since she's on a quest to be the hottest philanthropist slash ambassador to the world's children slash mom on the planet, and has done films like Good Shepherd and A Might Heart, we've forgotten that she could probably kick our ass and get away with it. So it's only logical that the insanely underrated, yet impressively creative, director behind Night Watch, Timur Bekmambetov, would choose her to appear in his adaptation of the comic book Wanted.
It's a miniseries that follows a guy who is sort of recruited into the family business unwillingly when his father dies. Normally that isn't an exciting plot line, but his father wasn't a car salesman, he was "a super-villainous assassin in a world where such villains have secretly taken control of the planet." She isn't rocking the Bond girl role--looking pretty and holding a gun for show. She's more like his handler--he being James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland). Morgan Freeman fills in his usual slot as the all-knowing and truly informative old guy who explains everything to him and trains him. This film comes at a perfect time, when geeks rule primetime (Chuck, Reaper, Heroes, Ugly Betty) and stole the summer box office (Transformers, Live Free or Die Hard, Superbad). Look for it in theaters March 2008.
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