Chocolate, meet peanut butter.
Slash Film reports that Terror Planet and Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez has been offered the director’s chair for the Wolverine: Origins spin-off, Deadpool, in his own feature film. Now it’s not confirmed that he will take it, but it is becoming clearer and clearer he’s making Fox Studios his new home.
Now that Green Lantern’s sequel has already been green lit (pun intended), it’s difficult to see Ryan Reynolds wield Wilson’s gun and blades again or anytime soon.
Rodriguez’s style would fit perfectly with Deadpool’s antics and violence, but it’s hard to see something like this be anything but R-rated.
I guess we can do nothing now but to let the speculation begin.
June 16th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Uhmmm….I think you meant Planet Terror…
I think Deadpool, to be effective, would have to be overtly violent but funny violent…However, I think if we do get a Deadpool movie, it will be a watered down version…PG-13 to cash in on the toys, etc.
June 16th, 2010 at 9:03 am
I don’t think Deadpool needs to be overly violent, if anything I think real violence will take away from the humor, hurting the movie as a whole.
It should be ridiculous, and yes violent, but if he is cutting people in two some of the humor gets lost than if he just slashed at a guy and he fell down.
June 16th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Even IF the GL sequel gets made i don’t see Reynolds dropping out of Deadpool.
Reynolds has been vocal about his love for Deadpool since before Blade Trinity, almost a decade ago. He wouldn’t wait nearly 10 years for his dream role, get the opportunity to do it, then say “Actually, na i don’t want to do that anymore”.
Anyway, i think this is great news. Although it’s just an offer, it shows the production is moving in the right direction. With the guys who wrote Zombieland writing the script, and Rodriguez in talks to be director… it says to me they are going for comic book accuracy.
June 16th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
dat lad:
Fox, X-Men 3, Bryan Singer
June 17th, 2010 at 6:59 am
I don’t know what you are trying to say… Singer did a great job with the first two X movies. Brett Ratner did X-3 because Singer jumped ship for Superman.
What has any of that got to do with this?
And the fact that Fox gave Rodriguez free reign over Predators and Machete, that also says they have confidence in him and let him do what he wants. If Rodriguez got the Deadpool gig don’t expect a 100 million dollar budgeted movie. More like 50 million, therefore he would have more freedom and not have studio execs standing over his shoulder.
June 17th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
“Brett Ratner did X-3 because Singer jumped ship for Superman”
Fox chased Singer away because he dared to go make Superman.
I wouldn’t trust Fox execs as far as I could throw ‘em to not do something like that again. If Fox wants the Deadpool movie made when they want it made, then they’ll tell Reynolds to piss off too.
June 17th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
I think he could easily balance violence, action, and comedy in a tightly-wound PG-13 package. If anything, it’ll be a hard PG-13 ala The Dark Knight but with more genuinely funny sequences from the guys that brought you Zombieland. Rodriguez is a guy that actually inspired the first episode of Cowboy Bebop, not the other way around. He knows his cinematics.
And also, wow, did you Lan Pitts forget about Sin City, which he also directed?
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