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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
By Carl Hoover
| Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 04:12 PM
An inquisitive reader noticed a local connection in the Internet Movie Database’s trivia info for Wanted. The action film’s screenplay was written by Baylor graduates Derek Haas and Michael Brandt and continues a running joke that’s found in their other screenplays, including 2 Fast 2 Furious and their sterling adaptation of 3:10 to Yuma.
The two studied under Baylor professors Robert Darden and Michael Korpi and the students pay tribute to their elders by naming characters who die in their films after them. In 3:10 To Yuma, for instance, one of the first characters to bite the dust is named Thomas Darden.
Korpi’s not in Yuma or Wanted - Brandt told me in an interview last fall that Korpi’s a hard name to sneak into a movie - but Darden shows up in Wanted as the first victim of assassin-in-training Wesley Gibson.
According to the trivia tidbit in IMDB, former Baylor University president Robert Sloan gets a character shout-out, too, with the character played by Morgan Freeman bearing the name Sloan, the head of the mysterious, secret organization called The Fraternity.
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