Bring Your Passport for the 'Wanted' Sequel

I enjoyed the hell out of Wanted. It had everything I was looking for out of it, and only a few things I could have totally done without. This is where fans of the graphic novel chime in and talk about how the movie is garbage and it doesn't follow this, that, and the other thing. And maybe that's true. I never read the graphic novel, and I don't have to. I just have to watch the movies, and the movie entertained me a great deal.We have known for a while that a sequel would be coming, and now Chris Morgan, who co-wrote the movie, tells Splashpage, "the point is to continue the journey that Wes (James McAvoy) started in the first film. Wherever he ended up at the end of the film, now it's time to move him forward."That's a classic non-answer, in a way. Just saying we're picking up where we left off - which itself is less of an ending than a beginning - doesn't show us a lot of cards. However, it also sets some limitations and lets us know what the filmmakers are thinking: We're still going to be all about Wesley Gibson, there's no need to take him to space or anything, just re-connect with the character and ask where he'd go next."There's a natural journey that Wes needs to take," Morgan says, noting that part two "is going to be opened up to be more global."See, that bugs me a little bit. How many good to really good movies have decided that for the sequel, the exact damn same story will work again...if they take it to Europe or South America. This movie has an advantage (spoiler alert) of killing off nearly every other character in the first movie, including Angelina Jolie, so the story can't really be the same. But I do fear that it might get sucked back into its old routine a little bit, which is a shame because Wesley Gibson is at a turning point in his life. We don't need "global," we just need "next."