Given the big platform that is next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, Fox will naturally be taking the chance to hype Deadpool, which has Ryan Reynolds finally getting a proper crack at the wise-cracking, violent character. Entertainment Weekly[ has a new picture of the main man](http://Given the big platform that is next weeks San Diego Comic-Con, Fox will naturally be taking the chance to hype Deadpool, which has Ryan Reynolds finally getting a proper crack at the wise-cracking, violent character. Entertainment Weekly has a new picture of the main man, with commentary from producer Simon Kinberg and director Tim Miller. Deadpool features former Special Forces warrior-turned-mercenary Wade Wilson, who undergoes a rogue experiment as part of the Weapon X plan that leaves him brutally scarred but also boasting Wolverine-like healing powers. Armed with his new abilities and his pitch-dark sense of humour, he hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life, while taking on other bad guys as he does so. And according to Kinberg, it will, as Reynolds and the rest have been saying, stick to the mantra of grown-up (if not always mature) storytelling. Deadpool is a hard R, he says. Its graphic. Nothing is taboo. You either commit to a truly outrageous boundary-pushing kind of movie or you dont. Effects man/second unit director-turned-big-chair-occupier Miller is calling the shots for this one, working from a script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Hes been inspired by the work of David Fincher, for whom he created the credits sequence on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. I felt Fight Club and Tyler Durden were good corollaries, he says. We are in strip clubs and dive bars and crappy apartments and far away from the shiny X-Men world. Deadpool is scheduled to shoot into cinemas on February 5 next year.), with commentary from producer Simon Kinberg and director Tim Miller.
Deadpool features former Special Forces warrior-turned-mercenary Wade Wilson, who undergoes a rogue experiment as part of the Weapon X plan that leaves him brutally scarred but also boasting Wolverine-like healing powers. Armed with his new abilities and his pitch-dark sense of humour, he hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life, while taking on other bad guys as he does so.
And according to Kinberg, it will, as Reynolds and the rest have been saying, stick to the mantra of grown-up (if not always mature) storytelling. “Deadpool is a hard R,” he says. “It’s graphic. Nothing is taboo. You either commit to a truly outrageous boundary-pushing kind of movie or you don’t.”
Effects man/second unit director-turned-big-chair-occupier Miller is calling the shots for this one, working from a script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. He’s been inspired by the work of David Fincher, for whom he created the credits sequence on** The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo**. “I felt Fight Club and Tyler Durden were good corollaries,” he says. “We are in strip clubs and dive bars and crappy apartments and far away from the shiny X-Men world.”
Deadpool is scheduled to shoot into cinemas on February 5 next year.