#215 – Wanted | Directed by Timur Bekmambetov (with Betsy Gorham of Never Seen It with Betsy and Trent)

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Tune in as Betsy Gorham (Never Seen It with Betsy and Trent) jumps onboard the program to talk all about Wanted, the 2008 action movie about a miserable office worker who gets to unlock his bullet-curving potential after joining an assassin organization of which his murdered father was a member. The energy of this movie (as well as the Mark Millar/J.G. Jones comic book series that it’s based on) getting so damn aggro, all the time this spends hammering home its themes of fate and faith, the Fast & Furious franchise being part of the screenwriters’ credits, and James McAvoy and Daniel Craig’s American accents emerge as a few of the subjects on this episode.

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov, Wanted stars James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, Common, Kristen Hager, Marc Warren, David O’Hara, Dato Bakhtadze, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Chris Pratt, and Lorna Scott.

Spoilers start at 29:15

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