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Producer Of ‘The Wolverine’ & In-Development Deadpool Movie Talks About The Projects
Mar 28th
Here’s a couple little nuggets for you X-Men/Marvel fans to kick start your week. In their upcoming May issue Empire spoke with Lauren Shuler Donner, producer of the X-Men Movies, about the Marvel projects that are currently in the pipeline – in particular the Deadpool movie and the Hugh Jackman starring ‘The Wolverine.’
On the subject of the ‘The Wolverine’ Donner spoke on the direction the Japan-set movie will go in: “It will have depth and a dramatic backbone,” she said. “And yet there’s more action in this one than in any one we’ve ever done. It’s such a good script. We have the great Christopher McQuarrie writing and it’s very true to the Japanese saga. This is Logan on his own…”
Talking about the Ryan Reynolds starring Deadpool movie Donner confessed that it would be “a total reboot. We’re either going to pretend that didn’t happen, or mock it, which he could do.” No director has yet hopped on board Deadpool, although the film has been offered to the likes of Robert Rodriguez in the past. “We’re looking for a director, yes,” said Donner who, mindful of Reynolds’ ever-growing logjam of work, added that the film would shoot in the next year or so. “He’s very involved, Ryan. He’s working with the writers on the screenplay and it is as much as it is ours.”
With Aronofsky leaving the director’s chair on ‘The Wolverine’ my interest levels have plummeted 200%* (*that might be a slight exaggeration), hopefully FOX can find right director for the project. With regards to Deadpool I’m truly excited in seeing the witty and talkative mercenary hit the big screen, fingers crossed it doesn’t disappoint!
Ryan Reynolds Talks About The Deadpool Movie – Says ”Deadpool’s Still In The Works”
Mar 4th
Ryan Reynolds gave Empire a brief update on the current status of Marvel’s highly anticipated Deadpool movie. I can’t wait for the witty and talkative mercenary to hit the big screen, Deadpool was the best thing about X-Men Origins: Wolverine - which isn’t saying much. ‘The merc with the mouth’ is arguably the most entertaining comic book character of recent memory. Robert Rodriquez has been linked to direct, Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are on script duty. Check out what Reynolds had to say below:
“Deadpool’s still in the works,” he insists. “I’m not sure how logistically it works in terms of scheduling, but yeah, I want it to happen.” And what about the clash of two potential superhero brands, Green Lantern vs. Deadpool? “Those two universes are completely different,” contends Reynolds. “Superhero movies are so pervasive in pop culture, I don’t look at the as superhero roles as much as just roles. They’re such different people. Deadpool is about a guy in a highly militarised shame spiral, Green Lantern is more universally themed.”
Ryan Reynolds Heaps Praise On The Deadpool Script
Sep 15th
Ryan Reynolds recently had a chit chat with Hero Complex and went on to load heaps of praise on the Deadpool script. Everything he says makes me look forward to this movie even more than I already was. Deadpool was the best thing about X-Men Origins: Wolverine - which isn’t saying much, I can’t wait for the witty and talkative Marvel Comic mercenary to hit the big screen. From the quotes below it sounds like the direction Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are taking with the script gets two emphatic thumbs up from me:
“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.”
“You got to walk up and hit the biggest guy you see to establish a bit of cred,” Reynolds said. “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.”
It really sounds like they’re trying to make something special with this movie, he goes on to say:
“You won’t lose the hard-core fans of the character, they already know who he is,” he added. “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…”
“Deadpool is not a superhero movie, it’s a deconstruction of superhero movies”, says Reynolds. “So to come off something like Green Lantern and have the opportunity to do a movie like Deadpool is great in every way possible.”
