No. Eighteen years after the 2008 original there is no approved sequel, no cast and no date. Timur Bekmambetov has continued to talk about it, most recently describing the decision as dependent on the performance of another of his films.

What condition does Wanted 2 depend on?

Bekmambetov has said the sequel's prospects rest on how his film Mercy performs — "It's at the mercy of Mercy." That makes this entry unusually transparent: the gate is named, which most stalled projects never manage.

Is Angelina Jolie coming back?

Unresolved, and structurally difficult. Her character does not survive the original, which is the single biggest obstacle to a direct sequel. Bekmambetov has spoken warmly about wanting to work with her again without describing how the story would accommodate it.

Was a Wanted 2 ever written?

The director has said he has an idea for it and described it in enthusiastic terms, but no commissioned screenplay, writer credit or production start has been announced.

Could Chris Pratt be in it?

Bekmambetov has suggested Pratt's supporting character from the original could take a larger role in a sequel. That is a director's suggestion rather than casting, and it is worth reading as an idea about structure, a way to build a film that does not require the character who died.

Wanted 2: Status, Cast Problem and Why It Never Happened

Published June 24, 2026

Eighteen years of “close”

Wanted was released in 2008, made a great deal of money, and generated sequel talk almost immediately. It has been generating it ever since without producing a film. In 2015 a sequel was reported to be very close to happening. It was not.

That pattern (repeated near-misses reported as imminence) is exactly what this tracker exists to flatten. The status here is stalled, and it has been stalled through several rounds of optimistic coverage.

The named obstacle

Most stalled sequels never explain themselves. This one does, which makes it more useful than its volume suggests.

Timur Bekmambetov, who directed the original, has said the sequel depends on the performance of his film Mercy, phrasing it as being “at the mercy of Mercy”. He has also said he has an idea for the second film and described it as unbelievable, and has spoken about wanting to see Angelina Jolie on screen in action again.

Read carefully, that is a director with a concept and without a commission. The conditional is doing the work in that sentence: a project whose greenlight is pegged to a different film’s box office is not in development; it is waiting in a queue behind something else.

The cast problem the original created

The structural difficulty is straightforward and rarely stated plainly: Jolie’s character does not survive the 2008 film.

That leaves a sequel three options, none clean. It can proceed without her, losing the element most associated with the original. It can use a prequel or flashback structure, which limits what the story can change. Or it can undo the death, which the original’s own tone makes awkward.

Bekmambetov’s suggestion that Chris Pratt’s minor character could be expanded reads as an attempt at the first option, building a film around who is left rather than who is missing. Whether that is the film audiences searching for “Wanted 2” actually want is a different question, and probably the reason nobody has committed.

What would move this entry

A named writer, a studio confirming development, or a date. Notably, the condition Bekmambetov himself set (the performance of another film) is not something that would move the status on its own, because a box-office result is not a commissioning decision. It would only make one more likely.

Until any of that happens, this stays where it has been since 2008: wanted, in the ordinary sense, and not approved.

Wanted 2: The Current Status, the Cast Problem and Why It Still Has Not Happened