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[Grizzlyjin]

Deadpool was a fun movie that completely went to shit in the last third. Hopefully with a better budget they can make a great movie.

Really? I'm surprised to hear that criticism. I thought it was one of the very few action movies this year that didn't have a terrible third act. I think the smaller nature actually did it a favor. I can't watch another superhero movie where the city is getting destroyed by some dust cloud or beam into the sky. I swear, I'll walk out.

Different strokes though

 

[Kusagari]

Leitch handling the action while Rhett, Paul and Ryan handle everything else?

This movie will be amazing.

 

[MartyStu]

Really? I'm surprised to hear that criticism. I thought it was one of the very few action movies this year that didn't have a terrible third act. I think the smaller nature actually did it a favor. I can't watch another superhero movie where the city is getting destroyed by some dust cloud or beam into the sky. I swear, I'll walk out.

Different strokes though

To be fair, the last act was the weakest part of Deadpool. But that is all relative as it was still pretty solid.

 

[Not]

Nice to hear good news about this project again

 

[Retro]

This is good news. Very good news.

The Deadpool script originally called for a very large, gun porn-y shootout; instead of an aircraft carrier, it was set inside a building. Colossus would originally fight Sluggo outside while Deadpool made his way through Wyre, Kane and a small army of randos on his way up to fight Ajax (Angel Dust took the story beats of Wyre and the fights of Sluggo in the final film). All the guns had to be cut for budgetary reasons, but they were going to be;

• Two "Metal Storm" 9mm semi-automatic pistols, described as having three barrels each.
• An "AA-12 Combat Shotgun", fully automatic with a drum clip, 300 rounds a minute with explosive shells.
• A "Kriss .45 Caliber TDI", a sub-machine gun described by Weasel as the "most accurate machine gun on earth. No recoil. No muzzle rise. Their slogan is, 'Double Tap in the same hole.' 1.500 rounds per minute, each up the ass of the one before."

Plus the twin katanas, of course. Here's a few snippets from the script, apologies for any weird formatting due to the low-quality of the copies (there are pages of gibberish, actually, which are because the page was scanned upside down).

It's not spoilers if it's the script from a finished movie, right? Eh, Spoilers, possibly... you've been warned;

DEADPOOL DUCKS, LEAPS, ROLLS, and comes up FIRING...

...with the KRISS. THIS GUN IS BEYOND RIDICULOUS...

...insanely FAST, insanely loud, and other-worldly PRECISE...

...with all the whoa-f actor of an automatic weapon (bullets spraying out like a garden hose) and all the wow-factor of a sniper rifle (bullets ending up where they have no business ending up ) .

Deadpool fires in deafening long BURSTS, plugging guys all over the room.

ANGLE on a GUARD wearing a RIOT HELMET with a TRANSPARENT FACE SHIELD. The guard takes a bullet to one aide of the face shield. The shield suddenly DANGLES, ASKEW* Then a SECOND bullet strikes the OTHER side of the shield. The shield is shorn off the helmet COMPLETELY. The guard's chin drops in amazement. And a third bullet enters his OPEN MOUTH.

He gets pinned behind a COUNTER by a BARRAGE of FIRE. He tries to PEEK around it, but the sheer VOLUME of bullets forces him back.

So he draws a KATANA, extends it around the EDGE of the counter, and spies TWO heavily-armed guards in the REFLECTION of the BLADE,

He aims and shoots a BURST off his own SWORD with the KRISS.

The sword BREAKS, but the bullets RICOCHET off it precisely INTO one of the guards, Deadpool quickly draws his SECOND KATANA and REPEATS the TRICK,

DEADPOOL:
I love the fuck outta this gun.

Deadpool returns his attention to the guards, just in time to grow concerned at the sight of TWENTY or so GUARDS forming a WALL behind a row of HUGE, THICK RIOT SHIELDS* These riot shields feature small, impenetrable Plexiglas WINDOWS so that the guards can see what they're advancing on. And ADVANCE they do, in a moving PHALANX, right TOWARD Deadpool

Deadpool reloads his Kriss, RISES UP, and OPENS FIRE MERCILESSLY on the advancing shields,

...only to see his bullets helplessly RICOCHET...

...RIGHT BACK AT HIM. His mask get SINGED by a bullet. He DUCKS behind the counter again, ALARMED...

...but only for the length of time it takes for him to DISCARD the KRISS and UNSLING the AA-12 AUTOMATIC SHOTGUN: The one with DRUM MAGAZINES full of EXPLOSIVE ROUNDS .

A word about the AA-12: It's the most breathtaking, punishing, exhilarating gun EVER. Its rounds strike with such explosive power, they can SPIN the front end of a parked car a full ninety degrees. If you shot a jeep in the side up high with this gun, it would knock the jeep OVER.

Deadpool stands up

And FIRES right INTO the row of riot shields.

The effect is STUNNING, Every guy who gets hit BLASTS backward as if being run over by a car.

Immediately, the WALL of SHIELDS disintegrates as gaps appear wherever Deadpool fires. SHIELDS and BODIES CARTWHEEL THROUGH THE AIR.

Deadpool steps into the gap in the 'wall' and slowly turns in a circle, SHOULDER-FIRING ROUNDS at every point on the compass,

CRASH ! CRASH ! CRASH ! CRASH ! CRASH ! CRASH !

Spent RED SHOTGUN SHELLS tumble through the air around Deadpool. MEN literally FLY around the room. TABLES buck and spin and go airborne. COUNTERS disintegrate. COMPUTERS launch. WINDOWS shatter. SCULPTURES and STATUES explode. Everything and everyone that gets hit looks like it's getting CHEST-STOMPED by an INVISIBLE, GOD-SIZED BOOT.

...one last driver peeks up over a steering wheel and FLOORS his damaged CAR, trying to smash Deadpool against the elevators,

The car is up to 30 MILES-FER-HOUR by the time Deadpool HEARS it, turns, and OPENS FIRE into its grill.

BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM! The force of the shotgun is literally stronger than the forward momentum of a 4,000 pound car moving at 30 miles -per-hour.

The exploding rounds bring the car to a full STOP, then FORCE it BACKWARD out of the lobby and DOWN the front steps of the
building. . .

. . .where it TAGS Sluggo in the back, giving Colossus a chance to regain his feet.

He comes out of his roll and OPENS FIRE with both PISTOLS.

Because three bullets are being discharged with every trigger-pull, every 'shot' goes off like a BOMB.

Guards DROP as three-bullet volleys SPIN them this way and that.

GUARDS start to RUN at DEADPOOL, who RELOADS his pistols, and then shifts his weight back and forth from one foot to the other like a BOXER who's just entered the ring to warm up.

Deadpool starts fighting HAND-to-HAND, but uses the pistols as extensions of his fists, shooting at the exact MOMENT he delivers each PUNCH. Every punch carries with it the extra oomph of THREE discharged 9mm BULLETS.

One by one, GUARDS rush at him.
A right CROSS to the JAW. BOOM!
Vicious BODY- SHOTS to the solar plexus BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
A one-two combination to the TEMPLE. JABS to the CHIN. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The nearest guard slips. DEADPOOL PUNCHES him on the GROUND .
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

. . .

Then back to DEADPOOL, who lands a crazy UPPERCUT under the last guard's CHIN. The force of the bullet /punch LIFTS him high off the ground.

Parts of John Wick were like a ballet of bullets, I can see this being a positively good thing; Leitch has got the action work all sewn up, Reynolds can make sure the comedy beats are just as effective.

 

[Shirow]

Srsly?



Deadpool was a fun movie that completely went to shit in the last third. Hopefully with a better budget they can make a great movie.

Yup. It's an overrated POS movie that made me go to sleep in the first 30 minutes. Woke up a little later, action scenes made me sleep even faster. Maybe Keanu fans really want this movie to be good they can't fathom it being shit or something.

Deadpool was alright thou.

 

[Escape Goat]

Yup. It's an overrated POS movie that made me go to sleep in the first 30 minutes. Woke up a little later, action scenes made me sleep even faster. Maybe Keanu fans really want this movie to be good they can't fathom it being shit or something.

Deadpool was alright thou.

Your opinion is wrong. You need to see a doctor about your narcolepsy and/or diabetes.

 

[NastyBook]

Gunplay should be out of this world. Make Ryan take the training Keanu did.

 

[Nokterian]

Perfect choice IMO.

My exact thought and let's see ryan reynolds make fun at john wick but this is going to be good! I am already excited for it.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

This can only be an upgrade.

 

[El_Chino]

Yup. It's an overrated POS movie that made me go to sleep in the first 30 minutes. Woke up a little later, action scenes made me sleep even faster. Maybe Keanu fans really want this movie to be good they can't fathom it being shit or something.

Deadpool was alright thou.

I don't know how to react to this.

Wow.

I'm excited for the Deadpool sequel though.

 

[Shpeshal Nick]

Match made in motherfucking heaven.

Ooooooh yeeeaaah

 

[dcelw540]

So happy with the choice

 

[Discotheque]

Huh, didn't realize he's not on John Wick 2. The other guy has solo credit for it.

yeah he was working on Coldest City with Charlize Theron/James Mcavoy instead. Some spy action thriller apparently.

This news has me pretty damn interested in the action in here. Deadpool was pretty fun but honestly I found the action pretty meh overall. I think this dude will step the choreography up though. This choice is definitely an upgrade to me.

 

[Vic_Viper]

Good choice for director but this movie has a lot to live up to. It'll be almost impossible for them to capture what was so special about the first one all over again and really shouldn't even attempt too. They need to do their own thing and not let Fox have any input other than budget constraints. The one thing the first movie was lacking was great action set pieces. The intro highway fight was nice but there needs to be more, especially more guns.

This movie should be more of a Cable movie than Deadpool. Basically introducing him as a war torn time traveler that escaped the future seeking the X-Men's help but instead ends up with Deadpool. I want to see them do Cable's future justice and not just show horned in like Days of Future Past was.

What villain do you guys think will be the big bad this duo needs to fight? I think if done right, Stryfe could be an awesome idea for a villain. Whatever they end up doing though should set up a reason for Cable needing to assemble an X-Force. His own secret task force to stop threats before they become a problem without Xaviars's approval.

 

[broncobuster]

He's a producer on John Wick 2.

The other director of John Wick 1, Chad Stahelski, is going to direct Triple Threat which stars Tony Jaa, Tiger Chen, and Iko Uwais

yeah he was working on Coldest City with Charlize Theron/James Mcavoy instead. Some spy action thriller apparently.

This news has me pretty damn interested in the action in here. Deadpool was pretty fun but honestly I found the action pretty meh overall. I think this dude will step the choreography up though. This choice is definitely an upgrade to me.

Good to know.

Also worth pointing out the pair worked on Civil War, and people point to the airport scene when mentioning them. So he has experience with super powered characters should Deadpool 2 bring in other mutants.

 

[Masterspeed]

The action is going to be so amazing now, which is perfect for Deadpool.

 

[Lima]

Yup. It's an overrated POS movie that made me go to sleep in the first 30 minutes. Woke up a little later, action scenes made me sleep even faster. Maybe Keanu fans really want this movie to be good they can't fathom it being shit or something.

Deadpool was alright thou.

How is it like to be completely dead on the inside and not get any enjoyment out of life?