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DEADPOOL Wraps!
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) May 29, 2015
Tim Miller's DEADPOOL Gets A Synopsis
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Ed Skrein In Talks To Star In DEADPOOL With Ryan Renyolds
Think what you will of actor Ed Skrein in place of Jason Statham for the upcoming trilogy reboot, The Transporter Legacy. Sure, it’s not Statham, but knowing promise in store for another actor to take the helm in a prequelized setting could open the floodgates for something fresh and even possibly better, particualrly for Skrein‘s career following his stint on Game Of Thrones.
For this, we now learn that the actor is currently forging a path through talks with 20th Century Fox for the forthcoming first of the studio’s three planned X-Men universe movies for 2016, director Tim Miller‘s Deadpool, starring Ryan Renyolds. We also learn that Transformers: Age Of Extinction co-star T.J. Miller is up for a role, and while the details aren’t being made public just yet, report are already hinting that Skrein and Miller may be up for the respective villain and comedy roles, and some sites like Cinema Blend have a few ideas. Needless to say, speculation is all we have until then.
It’s another pretty good year for action movies regardless of how you feel, and hopefully many of current expectations will be met with some upworthy reviews. Skrein very well could be the next face of action cinema in the same vein of Statham circa 2002, so hopefully Deadpool will be an extension of that come February 12, 2016.
H/T: The Wrap
Kinberg: DEADPOOL Will Fit Into The X-Men Universe
Producer and screenwriter, Simon Kinberg (Elysium, X-Men: Days Of Future Past) has largely been the go-to for plenty of micro-updates on what fans can currently expect for forthcoming blockbuster films, particularly X-Men: Apocalypse and Fantastic Four. As of late though, the news circuit is also seeing a growing share of news bits giving some steam to the upcoming production of the newly announced Marvel adaptation, Deadpool, to be directed by Tim Miller.
One such update now lends credence to the probability that the film will fall under the umbrella of Marvel’s X-Men universe, according to Kinberg in statements forwarded by Comic Book via CBM. This is quite peculiar, and mainly because leading man Hugh Jackman decapitated him in an the epic final battle alongside Liev Schreiber’s performance as Sabretooth in the 2009 film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This is also means tying said film in to the new movie, a formula that director James Mangold avoided when sitting in the chair for last year’s release, The Wolverine, so this may (or may not) impact the universal storytelling process in some capacity. Nevertheless, Kinberg says there’s a grand scheme in play right now to help make it all fit.
“There’s definitely a sort of overall plan that we’ve all been talking about for the X-Men universe now,” Kinberg said, “and Deadpool obviously fits into that. So yeah, I guess I would say it’s part of certainly an overall timeline and thought process that goes into these films, some of which is inspired by the comics and some which is inspired by seeing what Marvel’s done with telling a larger tapestry and linking all those movies together, even as they stand independently as well. The same kind of thought is going to go into these X-Men movies at Fox.”
This also presents a few questions, the most obvious one being how in the hell does Deadpool come back from the dead? Sure he’s got some wicked healing powers to accompany his particular set of skills, but it’s still a question worth asking since the last thing many fans want to see is for this film to fall part without any cohesive storytelling (let alone a PG-13 adaptation for a project that was once promised an R-rating).
Another thing also worth looking at is if whether or not writer and director Jeff Wadlow is going to use the same tie-in formula going into the development of his next film, X-Force. He and comic book creator Rob Liefeld have already stated Deadpool‘s inclusion in the film, of which Cable, Psylocke and Colossus are also frontrunners for the five-member team. In this case, I wonder if he, Miller, Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and the high-ups at Twentieth Century Fox are exchanging notes.
And then, of course, another question worth asking is if whether or not we can expect a Deadpool cameo in X-Men: Apocalypse or the upcoming Gambit film with Channing Tatum. The news is early, really, so of course this is all speculation. But with Deadpool now included in the X-verse, it appears that with Marvel and DC bringing their universes together, as well as the recent announcent of Universal’s Monsterverse, cinematic universes seem to be a thing, which reminds me…I also wonder if Deadpool and Wolverine will get a rematch at some point before Jackman hangs his claws up for good…
Decisions, decisions!
Deadpool is slated for February 12, 2016., while Kinberg is currently producing X-Men: Apocalypse and Fantastic Four for their respective releases on May 27, 2016 and August 7, 2015. Stay tuned for more info!