Deadpool is my favorite comic book character. Period. So you can imagine how pissed I was at how badly he was handled during that crappy Wolverine movie this year. Y'know, that guy who was supposed to be Deadpool but didn't look like Deadpool nor talk like Deadpool then became a power repository unlike Deadpool and had his mouth sewn shut? They've been working on a spinoff for the Merc with a Mouth, but frankly I was hoping the whole thing would die on the vine. I'd rather there be no Deadpool movies ever if that was how he was to be treated.
But from the sound of it, Ryan Reynolds knows what the fans are expecting. In an interview with Hitflix, Reynolds makes his love for the source material well known:
"I'm intimately involved with it," Reynolds said. "We're just trying to break a story right now and figure out who the villain is going to be and all that stuff. But, it's going to be just like the comic books. I'm gonna have a messed up face and you may see some flashbacks of Wade earlier in his life, but primarily what you see is what you get in the comics and that's the goal. And there is no better place to draw material from then the comics which are incredible."
He then went on to say in an interview with IGN:
"I would like to make him self-aware; I'd like to have a bit of a pop-culture air going on throughout the film. I mean, the greatest villain in a Deadpool comic is Deadpool. There's a lot you can do there, but you've gotta ask, 'Who's the boss? Who's the guy he's going up against?' But it's breaking the fourth wall; it's including all those things in a way that works, but it's not nearly as hard as it sounds. It can really be done. And people tend to overlook the greatest resource we have, which is the comic book. If it can be done in the comic, it can be done on film in a way that's just as much fun to watch for people who know nothing about the character than for people who are obsessed with the character."
Deadpool breakin' the fourth wall? Basing this film off of the amazing Deadpool comics(hopefully the early stuff not the current Daniel Way stuff)? I'm sold. If done right, a Deadpool franchise could be a serious force to reckon with and would easily eclipse that lame ass Wolvie flick.
