Ryan Reynolds is becoming quite the regular on the comic book movie circuit, having appeared in Blade: Trinity, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Green Lantern and the forthcoming supernatural adventure R.I.P.D., which hits cinemas later this month. Of course, he’s also still attached to another – the long-rumoured Deadpool movie – and now the actor has gave a brief update on the status of Fox’s planned X-Men spin-off, which doesn’t offer much in the way of encouragement about the Merc with the Mouth returning to the big screen any time soon.
“That movie is alive and kicking, and then it’s dead as a doornail. Then it’s alive and kicking and then it’s dead. It’s like the worst relationship I’ve ever had,” Reynolds tells Total Film. “The character knows he’s a comic book character, he knows he’s in a film, he knows who the executives are at the studio making the movie. In the current iteration of the script, Deadpool is aware of the Wolverine movie. He doesn’t say anything disparaging about it but he does at one point play with the Deadpool action figure with some curiosity.”
The script for the Deadpool movie has been penned by the screenwriting duo of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Zombieland, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) with Tim Miller currently attached to direct… if and when it ever sees the light of day.
Originally published July 6, 2013. Updated April 10, 2018.
