20th Century Fox suffered a setback with its plans for Deadpool 2 with the news director Tim Miller would not be returning for the sequel due to creative differences, and now writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have been speaking to Deadline about the film, reassuring fans that it is still on track and will likely shoot this year.
“Yeah, it’ll be a solo movie,” said Reese. “It’ll be populated with a lot of characters, but it is still Deadpool’s movie, this next one. We’re pushing forward very hard. I think by every account we will shoot it this year, and we’re on our multiple draft now. It’s taken different twists and turns, but it’s really coalescing, and we’re very, very excited. We’re a little nervous, because now we feel like we have to live up to the first movie, but at the same time, we have to have faith, and we have an extreme passion still, and as long as we have passion still, and it’s not a mercenary, venal play, which we don’t think this is, I think we’ll be in good shape.”
While Deadpool 2 is being described as “a solo movie”, it will feature the character of Cable, with Wernick adding: “It’s a world that’s so rich and we always thought Cable should be in the sequel. There was always debate whether to put him in the original, and it felt like we needed to set up Deadpool and create his world first, and then bring those characters into his world in the next one.”
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David Leitch (John Wick) is on board to helm the second entry in the Deadpool film series, which will see Reynolds returning to play the titular character. The film is expected to arrive in 2018.
Originally published January 12, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
