WANTED: James McAvoy

When approached for the role of Wesley Gibson in “Wanted,” the new Timur Bekmambetov film based on the Top Cow graphic novel by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, actor James McAvoy had his doubts. “I thought I was probably bad casting for it but I also thought, the action movie can be just really seamy and can be really bad,” he told CBR News. Opening June 27 in the US, “Wanted” co-stars Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Common and Terence Stamp, and tells the story of a young man who discovers he is the son of a brilliant assassin, who himself had been assassinated, and is given the chance to seek revenge. READ MORE.

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