Marvel's Merc with a Mouth has long been one of their most popular characters, arguably their most popular outside of the Avengers. And while fans have been dying for a proper Deadpool film since his dreadful debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the one thing they really demanded was that it be R-rated. But there was some worry that Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick's screenplay would get diced down into a soft PG-13. Ryan Reynolds promised that wouldn't be the case, and now producer Simon Kinberg assures fans Deadpool will be as out-of-bounds as fans hoped. He tells EW...
“Deadpool is a hard R. It’s graphic. Nothing is taboo. You either commit to a truly outrageous boundary-pushing kind of movie or you don’t.”
Meanwhile, director Tim Miller says his approach was influenced by a David Fincher classic, one that should kick up anticipation even further...
“I felt Fight Club and Tyler Durden were good corollaries. We are in strip clubs and dive bars and crappy apartments and far away from the shiny X-Men world.”
Now that sounds like the Deadpool I remember, not the ridiculous wannabe X-Man that Marvel Comics has turned him into.
Two new images have also been released. The first one has Deadpool checking out a sketchy drawing of his violent handiwork, while the other features an appearance by Negasonic Teenage Warhead, played by Brianna Hildebrand.
Deadpool hits theaters on February 12th 2016. [Empire]
