Wesley (James McAvoy) confronts Sloan (Morgan Freeman) and the League of Assassins, provoking unexpected action from Fox (Angelina Jolie) in this climactic scene from Wanted. Watch the movie now on Hulu and digital.
Wanted is Universal Pictures' 2008 live-action film adaptation of the Top Cow Comics series of the same name created by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones.
James McAvoy stars as Wesley Gibson, an average loser working at a dead-end job and living with a cheating girlfriend. He encounters the enigmatic Fox (Angelina Jolie), who tells him his father was one of the world's top assassins whose enemies are now hunting him. It seems Wesley has inherited from his father a rare super-human ability for unerring, reflexive gun skills. From there he's indoctrinated into a secret society of assassins. Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thoms Kretschmann and Common also star.
The movie loosely adapts the comics series, which featured a secret society of super-villains rather than assassins. In fact, Millar initially pitched the concept to DC Comics under the legacy title of "Secret Society of Supervillains," and the characters bear very obvious similarities to DC Comics villains, with Fox actually being Catwoman and Wesley being the son of Deadshot.
Timur Bekmambetov directed the film from a script by Michael Brandt, Derek Haas and Chris Morgan.
