Screenwriter Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick penned last year's run away hit Zombieland and quickly became the toast of the town. The film was refreshingly irreverent and basically just an all out fun fest. This is exactly what the Deadpool movie needs, that plaster-a-smile-on-your-face factor. Try aligning it with the gritty streak running through superhero movies right and you'll ruin everything that Deadpool stands for.
The great thing about the Deadpool movie is that it has the potential to be completely different than the thousands upon thousands of superhero movies being churned out as we speak. He makes Superman look like a fossil and even manages to make Batman feel like your grandparent's vigilante. Deadpool is exactly the violent, pop culture saturated, ADHD addled type of superhero that this generation will embrace with open arms.
According to Reese, he and his writing partner have turned in their second draft of the script and production has moved on to finding a director. Their script is the origin story of Deadpool, something that people may confuse with the dreaded X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie.
For those of you who don't frequent comic book shops, you might remember Deadpool from Ryan Reynold's incarnation of the character in Wolverine. Hopefully you don't because not only was that movie horrid, it also completely botches the Deadpool character. Let me assure that Deadpool has never had his mouth surgically grafted shut. Something tells me that it would detrimental for someone nicknamed "The Merc With A Mouth" to lose his mouth.
What Wolverine didn't exactly drive home is that fact that Deadpool is certifiably insane. Essentially, he was an ex-US Special Forces Agent turned mercenary who contracted brain cancer. Enter the Weapon X program. They manage to stay the brain cancer, but sense brain cells don't replicate Deadpool has a malformed brain. As a result, he has little to no functioning morals, a manic depressive personality, no brain-to-mouth filter, an acute awareness of the fact that he is in a comic book and two extra voices that talk to him with regularity.
Making people sludge trough an origin story with such a seemingly superficial character is causing a bit of doubt in the film. Most people despise when any superhero film goes through the motions of the origin story. It's a legitimate complaint. Who wants to waste time on the "Why" when all we want is the "What". "Ultimately, I think despite how fun he is in the now," Reese told io9 "We really did want to explore how he became that way and why he became that way. We definitely delve into that... He'll go anywhere and say anything and that's the joy of writing him. So we really enjoy that but we also did enjoy exploring a little bit of his past."
Personally, I enjoy origin stories and I think we can all agree that its something current films like Batman Begins and the original Spiderman have been knocking them out of the park.
This little bit of insight is a ray of light in what has been a dark hole for the Deadpool movie. We've watched Robert Rodriguez pass on directing it because of the lengthy development route and current hot ticket Ryan Reynolds may have to do the same. I think I speak for the entirety of the Deadpool fanbase when I say that Ryan Reynolds is Deadpool. Anyone else would be a significant downgrade.
"We're very, very proud of the script," Reese also said "So I wouldn't say we hope doesn't get rewritten too much, because there are probably ways it could be improved. But that said, we hope it doesn't get rewritten too much."
So for right now we can just be happy that Reese and Wernick's script has been accepted.
{reference: io9}
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