Oh sure I nearly died stumbling through the snow-clogged streets to get to work this morning, but to happen upon news of a new Alfonso Cuarón movie once I got here, well it almost makes that alright. Via Vulture:
"Universal craved a sequel to Angelina Jolie’s assassination tango/loom tutorial Wanted. Unfortunately for the studio, Jolie is leaving them…wanting. We’ve just heard the actress has pulled out of the planned Timur Bekmambetov-directed sequel at Universal, and the studio has pulled the plug rather than recast the film. As for Jolie, we hear she is now intent on starring in Warner Bros.’ Gravity, a space thriller to be directed by Children of Men’s Alfonso Cuarón from a script he wrote with his 28-year-old son, Jonás.
Like Wanted 2, Gravity had previously been set up at Universal, with Jolie set to star. But a few weeks ago, the studio put Gravity into turnaround, possibly because it’s such an artistically challenging project: Jolie would be alone on-screen for much of the movie, playing the sole surviving human member of a space mission, desperately trying to return home to Earth and her daughter. (In that way it’s reminiscent of the brilliant, little-seen Moon with Sam Rockwell. Seriously, why won't you see it?) Now Warners has snapped it up, and it will be produced by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows producer David Heyman and Legendary Pictures."
Ha ha fuck you, Universal, you dummies. And good on ya, Angie, for putting your heft behind the actually interesting project here (Thomas Kretschmann died in the first Wanted film so I am done with that series. Although so did Angelina and that apparently wasn't stopping her from returning. Hrm.) (Oh, also, spoiler!)
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Was anyone left alive at the end of Wanted? Doesn't exactly seem like prime sequel fodder. But what do I know? I thought The Matrix was a complete story in itself, too.
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