Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talk ‘Deadpool.’

DEADPOOL writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick recently spoke to Collider (click link for video) about the hellish development of the film, which has yet to be greenlit, due to 20th Century Fox being weary of making an R-rated Marvel film. According to them, director Tim Miller had filmed a 3-minutes clip featuring Ryan Reynolds in mo-cap, but Fox has yet to bite the bullet.

“We have a phenomenal director in Tim Miller, who did about a 3-minute test for Fox, and Ryan came in to do the mo-cap for it and the voice. And it’s like the greatest three minutes ever. I look at the three minutes and I’m like, “That’s the movie, and it has to get made.” I think the biggest hurdle right now is convincing the-powers-that-be that it’s okay to have a hard-R rated movie within the Marvel Universe.” Reese also says that a $50M budget is possible, which would account for lower ticket sales. He then states, “I think there just has to be a tolerance for the outlier. There has to be a tolerance for this one project that’s not like all the other Marvel projects.

On the screenplay being leaked, Reese says “The script leaked online in some bizarre way that we haven’t figured out, so it’s very easily findable out there. It’s pretty much you go on Google and type in “Deadpool script” and you’ll find it. Not to say people should be doing that because it certainly wasn’t something we anticipated or enjoyed in the moment, but the Deadpool fans who found it think that it’s right in the wheelhouse of what a Deadpool movie should be. And so again, we’re just fighting that uphill battle to convince people, and be positive.”