Fresh off the muscular performance of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" at the boxoffice, Fox has thrown into development a spinoff featuring Deadpool, the wise-cracking mercenary played in the film by Ryan Reynolds.
Reynolds is attached to reprise the character for what for now is simply being called "Deadpool." Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel Studios would act as producers.
Deadpool is known as "the merc with a mouth," a character that under Reynolds lived up to his billing in "Wolverine"
until the end, when the movie deviated from the comic book persona, imbuing him with several superpowers and sewing his mouth shut.
It is understood that Reynolds
would regain the ability to mouth off,
with the movie going back to the roots of the character known for his slapstick tone and propensity to break the fourth wall.
The character also was disfigured in "Wolverine," though it's unclear at this time how much the studio would want to mess with Reynolds' handsome mug.
The project is out to writers.
Fox considered a "Deadpool" spinoff early in "Wolverine's" development process, which is why it cast Reynolds.
The actor was brought back in the month before the movie's release to shoot one of two "Easter egg" scenes that appeared after the end credits
Fox is also in the formative stages of a "Wolverine" sequel that will encompass the samurai storyline that was hinted at as Wolverine sat in a bar in Japan as the film concluded (Daily Variety, May 4).
Separately, Fox is developing "Magneto," a film about the X-Men villain with a script by Shelton Turner, and "X-Men: First Class," which Josh Schwartz is penning.
Honestly the 'Weapon XI' Deadpool is just a stopgap between 'Wade Wilson -><- Deadpool' it only takes liberties with his origins so far as it justfies the end fight sequence. I'm sure all of his other 'powers' get burnt out post Wolverine Origins.
And DO WANT. I'm holding out hope that it's better than Wolverine. Sure it's Fox, but that doesn't mean all hope is lost.
I got a '10 seconds of credits, face to Stryker walking, and the military apprehending him for the death of that General' and 'Deadpools head telling the audience to stop whinning about how they ruined Deadpool' (I'm giving them entirely too much credit here, I'm sure) after the real credits.
Honestly the 'Weapon XI' Deadpool is just a stopgap between 'Wade Wilson -><- Deadpool' it only takes liberties with his origins so far as it justfies the end fight sequence. I'm sure all of his other 'powers' get burnt out post Wolverine Origins.
And DO WANT. I'm holding out hope that it's better than Wolverine. Sure it's Fox, but that doesn't mean all hope is lost.
I heard that as long as Fox makes X-Men movies, they keeps the rights to them. If that's true then I expect to see Fox run the entire X-Men franchise into the ground. And even then they'll probably still make movies just for the sake of keeping the rights.
Fox still had X-Men and X-Men 2, and Wolverine is at least... better... than X-Men 3. Granted that was because of Bryan Singer (that X1/2 were good).
Averon said:
I heard that as long as Fox makes X-Men movies, they keeps the rights to them. If that's true then I expect to see Fox run the entire X-Men franchise into the ground. And even then they'll probably still make movies just for the sake of keeping the rights.
If they put Reynolds in the bloody costume, have him wisecracking, and breaking the fourth wall constantly, I'll give it a chance.
If he even slightly resembles his Weapon XI incarnation in any way, shape, or form, then Fox can once and for all go fuck itself. I'm drawing the fucking line here. If they fuck up a solo Deadpool movie, they'll never get a dime from me again.
smh, they completely ruined the character with just 5 minutes of screen time, I can't even imagine how much damage they gonna manage to make with a 90 minutes turd.
From what I understand what they did with "Weapon XI" in the film, why didn't they just make him a clone born in a jar or something?
They could have easily had Reynolds survive for another movie/spinoff without having to retcon or explain away all the changes they made for the FINAL EPIC BOSS MONSTER SCENE, and it wouldn't be any more farfetched than anything else in the Xmen universe they've crafted.
It also would've allowed them to keep his face, if that was their intention. Just poorly conceived all around.
Seeing as how Reynolds expressed disappointment with how Deadpool was handled in Wolverine, I doubt he'd sign up to this if he didn't like it. I also don't believe he's in any contract with Fox, either. So those are two good signs...for now.
And I highly doubt this will have tie-in to the Wolverine movie. It'll be a more faithful comic book representation of the character.
Fox is also in the formative stages of a "Wolverine" sequel that will encompass the samurai storyline that was hinted at as Wolverine sat in a bar in Japan as the film concluded (Daily Variety, May 4).
Separately, Fox is developing "Magneto," a film about the X-Men villain with a script by Shelton Turner, and "X-Men: First Class," which Josh Schwartz is penning.
