Fans are still reeling after finally seeing the first trailer for Deadpool.
Rude, Raunchy and Red-Band.
Ryan Reynolds is back as Wade Wilson aka The Merc With a Mouth in a teaser packed with violence, dark humor, comic homages and satiric references to the actor’s superhero film resume.
But what about all those X-Men connections?
Deadpool is definitely set in the Fox’s X-Men movie universe but definitely in a much darker, hilarious corner.
Director Tim Miller went shot by shot with Empire Online. Deadpool takes a punch from Colossus. How did Marvel’s Man of Steel turn up?
“We were never going to be able to keep Colossus as a secret. He was in the script that leaked and all that. I wasn’t actually sure, until we were standing there shooting it, that at some point Fox was going to say, ‘Hold on a second; we can’t put Colossus from our treasured X-Men franchise in this movie to be made fun of!’ But they did, and not only that, but also they let me change the look of him. As a fanboy I’ve always been like, ‘That dude with the shiny skin is not f—–g Colossus.’ He should be this monstrous guy, and they actually let me make him seven-and-a-half feet tall. I did actually call Daniel Cudmore to ask him if he wanted to do this, even though he’d be entirely CG the whole time. He was very nice about it. He was like, ‘I appreciate your offering, but nah.'”
What other X-characters almost made the cut and which ones could be in a possible sequel?
“In the original script the action in the third act was great, but it was just Deadpool and a lot of guns. One of my notes early on was that I wanted to see more superhero stuff. We had Garrison Kane in there for a while, but in the final round of budget cuts we had to take him out, because he was a pretty expensive dude. He’s got these bionic arms that change shape; he would have been a visual effect for a large part of the movie. And as it turned out, a visual effect too far. I went through the list of Marvel characters and picked a few others I thought could be visually spectacular and fun. And at the end of that list was Negasonic, which I just thought was a freaky, funny name. And I sent this list over to the writers, Rhett (Reese) and Paul (Wernick), and they were like, ‘Oh my fucking god, we have to use her!’ So that’s how she ended up in the movie. Her name was cool, and we kind of wanted a straight-man to play against Colossus. We thought about Cannonball, but he would’ve been a stupid hick character, whereas the guys wrote Negasonic as this deadpan goth teen, which was a great angle. She turned out really well. There aren’t really many definitive Deadpool villains, apart from Cable. If we don’t put Cable in Deadpool 2 I think we’ll be run out of town on a rail.”
One of our biggest questions after seeing the trailer is could this lead to an X-Force movie. Deadpool made his debut in New Mutants/X-Force starring Cable (the son of Cyclops from the future) and Wade later joined Wolverine’s Uncanny X-Force. There’s a script for an X-Force film in the works.
The big question is how could it all connect: a Deadpool sequel featuring X-Force, an X-Force film with Wade as a villain or team member or what if Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine film finds him leading X-Force including Deadpool?
By Editor