Common signs to star in Wanted
Hip-hop star Common has signed to join James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie in Wanted for Universal Pictures and is also in talks to join the cast of the Keanu Reeves-Forest Whitaker drama The Night Watchman for Fox Searchlight. Wanted, based on Mark Millar’s graphic novel, centers on a white-collar worker (McAvoy) who discovers he is the son of the most evil supervillain on Earth. When his father is assassinated, he inherits the dead man’s powers and begins life among the other supervillains (Freeman, Jolie and Common) who secretly control the planet.
According to Hollywoodrepoter.com, Common will play the Gunsmith, an assassin with an unparalleled knowledge of firearms who is enlisted to help train and transform McAvoy’s character into the world’s most feared and powerful hit man.Timur Bekmambetov is directing from a script by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. Marc Platt, Jim Lemley and Jason Netter are producing.Common made his big-screen debut in the ensemble actioner Smokin’ Aces. He next appears in the Denzel Washington-Russell Crowe-T.I. film American Gangster.