JamesG
09-19-2014, 01:29 AM
Fox is Finally Making X-Men Spin-off Deadpool
by Darren Franich
Sep 18, 2014
The Deadpool movie was announced after the release of 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but has since been locked in development hell.
Ryan Reynolds was always game to discuss his involvement in the project; there was a screenplay by the Zombieland writers and the occasional leaked test footage.
Fox seems to have renewed their faith in the X-Men franchise now that Days of Future Past has grossed close to $750 million worldwide. EW has confirmed that Fox has slotted a Deadpool movie onto an official release date: February 12, 2016.
The film will still star Reynolds – who will almost certainly be playing a different version of the character from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which you’ll recall was erased from history by Days of Future Past.
It will be the feature film directorial debut of Tim Miller, a visual effects guy whose best-known work is probably the title sequence of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
The film is apparently using the Rhett Reese/Paul Wernick script that made the rounds through darker corners of the internet to general acclaim.
The film will come out three months before X-Men: Apocalypse and about a year before the new Wolverine.
Fox also took the opportunity to move Fantastic Four from June 2015 into August 2015, and moved the Assassin’s Creed movie off the schedule completely.
It’s impossible to know if Deadpool can live up to years of fan hype, or if such an immediately weird property can connect with the mainstream public.
But it's worth pointing out that Deadpool hasn’t started filming yet and is already the best superhero movie Ryan Reynolds has ever made.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/09/18/deadpool-movie-ryan-reynolds-x-men-2016/
by Darren Franich
Sep 18, 2014
The Deadpool movie was announced after the release of 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but has since been locked in development hell.
Ryan Reynolds was always game to discuss his involvement in the project; there was a screenplay by the Zombieland writers and the occasional leaked test footage.
Fox seems to have renewed their faith in the X-Men franchise now that Days of Future Past has grossed close to $750 million worldwide. EW has confirmed that Fox has slotted a Deadpool movie onto an official release date: February 12, 2016.
The film will still star Reynolds – who will almost certainly be playing a different version of the character from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which you’ll recall was erased from history by Days of Future Past.
It will be the feature film directorial debut of Tim Miller, a visual effects guy whose best-known work is probably the title sequence of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
The film is apparently using the Rhett Reese/Paul Wernick script that made the rounds through darker corners of the internet to general acclaim.
The film will come out three months before X-Men: Apocalypse and about a year before the new Wolverine.
Fox also took the opportunity to move Fantastic Four from June 2015 into August 2015, and moved the Assassin’s Creed movie off the schedule completely.
It’s impossible to know if Deadpool can live up to years of fan hype, or if such an immediately weird property can connect with the mainstream public.
But it's worth pointing out that Deadpool hasn’t started filming yet and is already the best superhero movie Ryan Reynolds has ever made.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/09/18/deadpool-movie-ryan-reynolds-x-men-2016/