Wanted 2 is still in pre-production, despite original star Angelina Jolie's decision not to continue with the franchise.

Reports late last week indicated that production would shut down on the sequel, after Jolie elected not to reprise her role in the second film. However creator Mark Millar told STV at the weekend that although the situation "changes every day," he understands that "there's filming this year for a release at the end of next year, so the plot that they had will have some modifications now. Her character will have to be written out completely."

Millar believes the justification for bringing Jolie's character back from the dead "probably just didn't sit easily with her... How cool is it to have the star dead and bring in another cool character for the next one?"

Although it seemed that Jolie had turned down Wanted 2 in favour of working on the space movie Gravity, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that she has also passed on that film.