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SHH!: How do you think “Wanted” will play in Russia compared to your previous films?
Bekmambetov: I think it will be huge in Russia. People will like it, because we made a special Russian edition of the movie. The studio supported me to make it, because I think it’s a good case and also one of the unique achievements of this project. There are a lot of foreign directors in Hollywood, and they have to make their own national versions because it’s the way how the Hollywood movies can be culturally adapted and it’s fun maybe even for American people to see the Russian version of the movie, too, because the Russian version of the movie has a different soundtrack, and Danny Elfman, he wrote a song for the movie and because I found that he speaks Russian, he sang the Russian version of the song. Also, there’s a lot of CG shots made uniquely for the Russia and the adaptation of the movie, the translation, was made by Sergei Lukyanenko, who wrote “Night Watch” and “Day Watch.” In this case, it’s quite a unique original movie and James McAvoy—remember the last scene in the movie?—in the Russian version, he made a separate take and said his line in Russian.
So does anyone know how one would obtain this version i.e. will there be a Russian release of the soundtrack? I’ve been looking around the interwebs, but I can’t seem to find anything.
I listened to an interview with Elfman (http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=1675), and apperantly he doesn’t speak Russian. He had to learn how to sing that song in Russian.. rofl.
Also, I have been looking for the Russian version of The Little Things and I can’t seem to find anything. Can someone help?
He has some Russian in his blood, so they asked him to do it cuz of that, most likely. *shrug* I’m sure he knows a few little phrases in Russian, if he can’t speak it fluently.
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