Within the time of legacy sequels, a spot of 17 years between a film and its follow-up doesn’t appear as implausible because it as soon as did. For that purpose, there’s nonetheless an opportunity of seeing an almost-forgotten motion thriller starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie – as an murderer you wouldn’t thoughts being hunted down by – get an sudden sequel. Particularly if author Derek Haas has something to do with it.
Again in 2008, Wished delivered an affordable set of evaluations and a powerful $342 million field workplace outcome from its $75 million price range. That might normally imply {that a} sequel would in a short time be heading into manufacturing. It appeared that was the plan on the time as a script was written after which…nothing. Now nearly twenty years later, author Haas has shared his ideas on whether or not there’s a probability of a brand new film ever being made, and urged one of many film’s stars to make it occur. He instructed ScreenRant:
“Michael Brandt and I wrote a script for it that I nonetheless suppose is fairly good. And James McAvoy, come on again, let’s do Wesley once more.”
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Naturally, this isn’t precisely how issues work, and Common – who financed the unique film – must really feel {that a} sequel would have the potential to construct on the unique win again in 2008. After 17 years, and never having connections to a well known IP, it appears that evidently Wished might merely not be.
May ‘Wished 2’ Occur?
As Haas went on to say, “By no means say by no means on this city, that’s for positive.” Nonetheless, there could possibly be one huge stumbling block for a Wished sequel, as James McAvoy beforehand appeared to rule himself out of taking part in an getting older motion star. He stated again in 2024:
“There have been a few scripts that got here my manner for sequels, however they weren’t robust sufficient, in order that’s why they by no means occurred. If there was a script there that was completely banging, then, yeah, I’d be disenchanted. However we made one thing that I’m actually happy with. Timur [Bekmambetov] was actually happy with it. The studio was actually happy with it. Everyone was actually excited by it, and it’s stood the check of time a little bit bit. It’s at all times on streamers, and individuals are at all times watching it. I nonetheless get a lot love for it from younger individuals who weren’t alive again then. So I’m happy with what we did, and I wouldn’t wish to tarnish it by doing one thing that was not fairly as robust. And, look, I’m too outdated to play Wesley now anyway. It’s a teenager’s function now.”
It appears like whereas there was each probability that Wished 2 may have occurred a decade in the past, maybe it has been too lengthy now. Though we have now seen Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to his function because the Terminator for many years, and Liam Neeson solely discovering his motion toes in his 50s, McAvoy doesn’t look like he needs to be the following graying motion star on the block.
Supply: ScreenRant
Wished
- Launch Date
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June 27, 2008
- Runtime
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110 Minutes