Common joins Uni's 'Wanted' list

May 08, 2007 The Chicago rapper has signed on to the Morgan Freeman-Angelina Jolie starrer "Wanted" for Universal Pictures and is in negotiations to join the cast of the Keanu Reeves-Forest Whitaker drama "The Night Watchman" for Fox Searchlight. "Wanted" centers on a white-collar worker (James McAvoy) who discovers he is the son of the most evil supervillain on Earth. Common will play the Gunsmith, an assassin with an unparalleled knowledge of firearms who is enlisted to help train and transform McAvoy's character into the world's most feared and powerful hit man.

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