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Marina City does its own stunts in film to be released next week

June 15, 2008 – A special effects sequence in the Universal Pictures action film “Wanted” will feature a close-up of Marina City. Scheduled for release on June 27, the second trailer for the film shows the roof and upper floors of the west residential tower as a bullet flies across the north Loop into the foreground.

Wanted

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Starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie, Wanted is “the tale of one overlooked nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice,” according to the film’s web site. Internet Movie Database says the film is about a young man who finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, “the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (played by Morgan Freeman) to follow in his dad’s footsteps.”

The film shot in the north Loop last year.

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 Wanted web site

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