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Ryan Reynolds has definitely been a busy boy, releasing the film festival favorite BURIED, and just recently wrapping up work on GREEN LANTERN. But comic book fans have been begging for details on his intended DEADPOOL movie, and a specific answer as to whether or not it is still going to happen. Let’s face it, with him playing GREEN LANTERN‘s Hal Jordan, a staple comic book hero from a competing publisher, the idea of him backing out of the Marvel project entirely wouldn’t be completely shocking. But thankfully the geek gods have smiled on us. In a recent interview with the LA Times, Ryan had the following to say about the beloved Marvel antihero:
“It goes in such a different direction than a superhero movie usually goes… It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like ‘Barfly‘ if it were a superhero movie. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person. I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that.”
“With Deadpool, it’s a lot like going to prison for the first day… You got to walk up and hit the biggest guy you see to establish a bit of cred. With Deadpool, early on you have to establish that moral flexibility. There’s a gamble to it — you’re going to lose a few people right at the beginning but you take the gamble and know that eventually you’re going to win them back. You won’t lose the hard-core fans of the character, they already know who he is. We have to play to a broader audience than that. As an actor you have to be willing to do something like … back in Vancouver we used to call it a [nasty] burger. ’You gotta eat the [nasty] burger to get to the cookies.’ And yes, I want to write a cookbook about that…”
Another big question from fans is whether or not this Deadpool will follow the events of the Deadpool in X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE – events that had many hardcore comic readers frustrated. Reynolds assures this film doesn’t follow the previous character depiction in any way, and also notes that fans can expect the character to break the fourth wall and address the audience at times, as the LA Times puts it “like some sort of deranged Ferris Bueller armed with katana swords.”
“The comics are very inconsistent in the writing… All the different writers, different voices, but at the core of the character his heart is really interesting. He’s the funniest guy you’ll ever meet, too, and for me that’s exciting but it’s not as hard as capturing that moral flexibility, which is so important. He hasn’t really experienced the full spectrum of human emotion the way most people do.”
The DEADPOOL screenplay is written by ZOMBIELAND‘s Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Sounds like fans of the current comic incarnation may have a lot to look forward to with this film adaptation. Are you excited about the DEADPOOL movie? Tell us in the comments below!
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
