Is this what you Wanted?

I've developed a weird fascination with Wanted, both the movie and the original comic book. Specifically, the absolute lack of similarity between the two. Neither of them are particularly amazing but I'm fascinated by the fact that the only thing they share in common is the opening scene and the name of the main character, Wesley Gibson. After that the two so rapidly diverge that it seems almost impossible that the film can take the book's name with out being fraudulent.

The film follows a group of super assassins with superpowers, bending bullets like curve balls and eliminating targets to keep the world safe. The comic, on the other hand, follows a cabal of super villains who, decades earlier, teamed up and wiped out every superhero in existence - taking over the world and ruling it in secret. There's no bullet-bending, no Matrix-flavoured action. Just a bunch of superhuman bad guys. There are mad professors, an alien, a man who creates murderous robot dolls and Shithead. Ah, Shithead; a sentient, shape-changing monster formed from the excrement collected from the most evil people in the world. Spot the difference?

I'd love to track down the people involved, interview them and write a piece on how the comic became a film with absolutely no connection save a few names. It's incredible that Universal even bothered calling it Wanted. According to those rules I could write a story about a CIA space operative investigating tax fraud on the moon and call it Shindler's List.  

[Update] Turns out book author Mark Millar had the assassin idea first, which the movie studio bought, but then went on to write a completely different comic.  Thanks, Mark, for making this entire post redundant.