Last week we heard from Wade Wilson himself, Ryan Reynolds, who offered up a few words about the long-in-development Deadpool movie, stating that the script is “so, so far into the R-rated zone [that] I don’t know if [Fox] would ever risk their reputation doing it.” Well, now screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) have chipped in themselves, discussing their work on Deadpool and its current status during an interview with Collider:
“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,” states Reese. “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. 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.”
“Iron Man was like that when it came out,” added Wernick. “Tony Stark and the hard drinking, fast-talking billionaire was very different from all the other Marvel characters. And look what it became. And we feel that way about Deadpool.”
Despite all of the praise the Deadpool script has been generating, it’s starting to look like there’s about as much chance of Ryan Reynolds returning as Hal Jordan for Green Lantern 2 as there is of him reprising the role of Wade Wilson for this standalone spin-off to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. However, if you’d like to read the script for yourself to see what all the fuss is about, Reese has some advice for you:
“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.”
Originally published March 26, 2013. Updated April 11, 2018.
