While doing press rounds for “The Croods,” Ryan Reynolds was asked if there were any updates on a DEADPOOL film. “Mmm…I don’t know. The studio is sort of reluctant to pull the trigger on such a hard R-rated script.” said Reynolds. “The guys that wrote it and the producers don’t want to make it unless it’s that hard and raunchy.”
The film has been in development since X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE was released in 2009. Director Tim Miller even shot eight minutes worth of test footage, which he presented to the studio, but it appears the concept is too risky for them to sign off on.
I’m sure a film starring the “merc with a mouth” will happen at some point; it’s a very popular character in Fox’s Marvel catalogue. Whether it’s the hard core version with Miller/ Reynolds remains to be seen.
Talk starts at the 4:36 mark.
Update 3/22:
Reynolds also spoke with Empire Magazine, calling the screenplay “nearly NC-17” in content, saying “I love Deadpool and there is a script that’s in development. But it’s so, so far into the R-rated zone… it’s a nearly NC-17 world and I just don’t know if the studio would ever risk their reputation doing it. We’ve been developing it and we would never wanna do it unless you could it that R-rated way, so…
“[It has] a similar tone [to Zombieland], almost. They wrote it and they developed it as well and, you know, it’s sitting there. You could do it for a pittance compared to the modern sort of epic scale superhero movies, but it’s about a guy who knows he’s in a movie and knows he’s in a comic book who is deeply mentally disturbed and hyper violent. And that’s tough to get by a studio.
“But I’ve always wanted to do the movie just if only because Deadpool would get to do his own movie trailer. So that’s a thing that we were dying to do and we would love to be a part of that. I don’t know how it would fit though, no. In the current iteration of the script, it doesn’t address Wolverine – though it does address Deadpool’s appearance in Wolverine. Deadpool was not happy with Deadpool in Wolverine. He has a sort of a WTF!? moment with that.”
Maybe a possible unrated THE WOLVERINE homecinema release (Mangold and Jackman talked about an unrated extended and more violent version, which could be released on Blu Ray later this year) will convince the studio.
Last year’s DREDD was an awesome R-rated piece of film. Best comic book based movie in 2012 (sorry AVENGERS and DARK KNIGHT). Yeah, it bombed, but it has build a cult following with the homecinema release. DREDD is one of the most awesome cb films. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it. Very close to source material.
Oh no. Dark Knight Rises was the one movie to see in 2012. No contest.
Well let’s see. Ryan played Green Lantern which fell hard at the box office in 2011. He is not a leading man role type actor. The Fox studio wants all the X-Men movies to be PG-13, in order to get a wider audience. The Wolverine and Days of Future Past get top work right now. A Fantastic Four reboot is coming. I think they prefer to do those movies and want to leave Deadpool,well dead.
I love Ryan but I rather have X-MEN for sure.
well i don’t know about you but on this interviews of x-men new actors is going to be very emotional and very rought the whole x-men movie full of excitements