Millar spills on Wanted 2

MTV got to talk to comic book writer Mark Millar about the latest on the sequel to the 2008 loosely based feature Wanted. Those of you who watched the feature know exactly how it ended, which makes it even stranger when there has been speculation for awhile that Angelina Jolie’s character would be coming back for the sequel. Now Millar’s clearing the air on that rumor and other parts of the development of this sequel.

Here’s what Millar had to say on the second installment.:

“They killed off the most recognizable character, but I thought it was great to do that,” Millar told MTV News. “It was so ballsy to kill off the one person you didn’t expect to die.”

“What they’re talking about is just moving on with the story and doing it properly,” he said. “Just bringing in another cool character as this world opens up with all the different fraternities out there all across the world. This could change at any moment, but the last I heard two weeks ago, was that was the plan moving forward.”

“The way I look at it is, Raymond Chandler has a brilliant quote about his adaptations where he said, ‘No matter what they do to the movies, it doesn’t change the book on my shelf,’” said Millar. “And primarily I’m a comic guy. People say, ‘Oh, you’re going to go off and work in Hollywood’ [and] I’m like, ‘Not really, no.’ It’s a nice little extra job, but really I’m a comic book guy.”

“I always say to people, I didn’t get into it to get out of it,” he added. “This was my dream job as a kid. So if they make movies of the stuff — brilliant. And if it’s great movies, fantastic. I’m not precious about it. As long as the movie’s good, that’s my criteria.”

Millar is taking the “loose” part of the adaptation from the Wanted feature a lot better than one would imagine. Then again, this is not the only comic that he’s created that has spawned off onto the big screen. On April 16th, Millar’s other creation Kick-Ass will be making it’s way into theaters everywhere.

So, let’s open it up to you all. Are you interested in seeing a Wanted 2? Or would you rather just let that one pass and keep interest on other comic book adapted features?