“X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE” SPOILERS THROUGHOUT THIS POST. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
If you saw “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” over the weekend, then you know this is most certainly not what comic fans know as Deadpool. I don’t know what the hell it was, to be honest, but then again, Ryan Reynolds wasn’t the guy playing…it. Scott Adkins from “The Bourne Ultimatum” was credited as Weapon XI, so there are outs.
Well, the race to spin off from the spin-off first has ended with Rob Liefeld’s creation getting the solo Hollywood treatment. The Hollywood Reporter gives us the following, with MAJOR “Wolverine” SPOILERS (via Liefeld’s Twitter page):
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. The scene showed Deadpool alive, though when last audiences saw him, he appeared to be dead.
…which, of course, takes none of the “outs” into the scenario, so who knows what the hell is going on. One thing is for sure: this is a project destined to lose money if the production budget gets too out of hand. “Elektra” numbers, maybe. Unless the film gets some supporting character help. The general audience doesn’t know Deadpool from a circus acrobat, after all.
Sigh…
(Also in comic casting news, it looks like Bradley Cooper, from “The Hangover” and television’s “Alias,” is being seriously considered for the lead role in “The Green Lantern.”)
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7 responses to “Deadpool will get his own movie and ‘Green Lantern’ might have its star”
I LOVE Bradley Cooper. It’s unfortunate that he’s probably the next Matthew McConnaughey.
Who else has been perpetually confused by the fact that the Green Hornet and Green Lantern are apparently two very separate things? In my head Seth Rogen was dropping a lot of weight to prove that he was worthy of carrying a franchise. I couldn’t figure out who this Campbell person was in relation to my Gondry.
I guess this confirms they are going to have trouble finding an audience for Deadpool without some extra work. I am an avid movie-goer (more for the Oscar stuff, obviously) but this comic book stuff really tests my cinematic patience.
Also Bradley Cooper and the rest of the cast looked hilarious in the preview of The Hangover we saw at ShoWest. Alan Horn was also really pushing the movie, he seemed more genuinely excited about that than Terminator. I expect big things.
Green Hornet and Green Latern are 100% 2 different things, people who knows comics know that and Baby Boomers who watching TV in the late 60s know it too (or at least know Hornet is not a super hero with a magical ring). Also people who listened to radio in the 30s should know it as well.
Hmm Bradley Cooper is an interesting choice… that may work, I can see him as Hal Jordan, oddly enough Cooper was sitting right by me at the Moon screening I was at during Tribeca late Friday night.
It’s funny, I was at the video store with my g/f the other day and I mentioned to her how I was never really a fan of Cooper’s up to this point, then I had visions of…”I bet they’ll cast him in Green Lantern now that I said that”
…and here we are today.
Creepy, Kyle. Tell us who’s going to play the Riddler now.
I think Tarantino would be an awesome writer for the Deadpool script!