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Thursday’s report from Deadline finally confirmed that actor Ryan Renyolds was in the last stages of talks to star in the forthcoming comic book adaptation of Marvel’s Deadpool. Tim Miller is set to direct from a script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick with a release date currently set for February 12, 2016.

Renyolds‘s voice is but one of many among fans who have advocated for the classic “Merc With A Mouth” character to get his own film since the actor initial fitting performance in the 2009 film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The call became further amplified when a short demo video from mo-cap performance lab, Blur Studios, leaked online featuring Renyolds in probably one of the most action-packed, best received happy accidents of the internet in 2014, which finally brought the studio to greenlight the movie back in September.

Uh… It’s Chimichanga Time. pic.twitter.com/ZlknW4HOtj
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) December 4, 2014

With the wheels now spinning, Deadpool will likely be part of Fox’s continuing Marvel X-verse, which fascinatingly remains seperate from Disney’s Marvel franchise while some fans continue hoping for some kind of Avengers/X-Men/Spider-Man crossover, which seems unlikely, to say the least.

Deadpool also joins a few other productions well on the way from the studio, including Channing Tatum’s own lead role in Gambit, and developments for the appearance of time-traveling future soldier, Cable in relation to earlier announcements for X-Force.

In the meantime, production on Deadpool will begin this March, and R-Rating may still be in the cards, but I wouldn’t advise drawing that conclusion just yet since it precedes the likely PG-13 release of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse the following May, so watch this space!

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