Volgende maand beginnen de opnames van X-Men: Days of Future Past, en ondertussen is The Wolverine bijna klaar om in de bioscopen te draaien. Het lijkt goed te gaan met de X-Men-franchise, maar één film in de franchise verkeert al enige tijd in een ontwikkelingshel: Deadpool.
Het is al meer dan een jaar geleden dat we over de film gehoord hebben, en sindsdien is er niets meer over bekend gemaakt. Wel is Ryan Reynolds nog altijd aan de film verbonden en in die hoedanigheid gaf hij een update over de film.
De studio heeft volgens hem vooral moeite met groen licht geven voor de film omdat deze een R-Rating zal krijgen. Daarnaast moet de protagonist door de welbekende vierde muur breken. In zijn update vertelde Reynolds over de manier waarop de spin-off om zal gaan met de gebeurtenissen in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, waarin het personage een rol speelde.
I love Deadpool and there is a script thats in development. But its so, so far into the R-rated zone
its a nearly NC-17 world and I just dont know if the studio would ever risk their reputation doing it. Weve been developing it and we would never wanna do it unless you could it that R-rated way, so
[The script has] got a similar tone [to Zombieland], almost. [Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick] wrote it and they developed it as well and, you know, its sitting there. You could do it for a pittance compared to the modern sort of epic scale superhero movies, but its about a guy who knows hes in a movie and knows hes in a comic book who is deeply mentally disturbed and hyper violent. And thats tough to get by a studio.
I dont think you can [fit it within the Deadpool story from Wolverine], because that character would really sully that whole world. The script is one rewrite away from Deadpool jumping across the desk at the studio executive and attacking him But Ive always wanted to do the movie just if only because Deadpool would get to do his own movie trailer. So thats a thing that we were dying to do and we would love to be a part of that. I dont know how it would fit though, no. In the current iteration of the script, it doesnt address Wolverine though it does address Deadpools appearance in Wolverine. Deadpool was not happy with Deadpool in Wolverine. He has a sort of a WTF!? moment with that.