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ashez2ashes (ashez2ashes) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-06 18:45:00

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char: deadpool/wade wilson, medium: movies, medium: videos, publisher: marvel comics, title: deadpool

Ryan Reynolds to star in Deadpool movie? For reals?
Yahoo news is reporting that they're developing a Deadpool spinoff.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/reynolds-reprise-deadpool-quotxmenquot-spinoff-reuters

If ever there was a chance for a Deadpool movie to be decent it's now. Granted, they didn't do so hot with him in Wolverine: Origins, but I don't think they screwed him up to the point of no return either. Also, Ryan Reynolds is a Deadpool fanboy and is on record saying that he wants to do the scarred up/masked/crazy funny full on Deadpool in a movie. He's got our backs.

Skip to 1:34 to hear him discuss his thoughts on a Deadpool movie.

Edit: Oh wow, this additional link updated right after I posted.

Slightly less cool news about the Deadpool movie

I'm going to pretend that the "absorb the abilities of captured mutants" shit is just yahoo screwing up. Or at the very least, it's stupidness that Ryan Reynolds will talk them out of.

A scan for legality. Deadpool hates clowns.

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	captain_clown 2009-05-06 05:56 pm UTC (link)
	I've yet to see origins (may be too painful) but a deadpool film would be hard to pull off, mainly because of all the hammering the fourth wall would have to take (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-05-06 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	I think they could pull it off, Ferris Bueller style. But I will miss the little yellow boxes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sherkahn 2009-05-06 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	Either that or dueling narrators, both of them being being Wade. Or with whacky intercuts... hell, it's Wade. All of the above. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

dejadrew
2009-05-06 09:52 pm UTC (link)

... You know what a Deadpool movie should be? A Deadpool movie should be Kill Bill. Kill Bill, only with the protagonist actually noticing and commenting on all the references and techniques.

"Oooo, we're in black and white now! Wait, is it now, now, or are we in another flashback? Whoop, who the hell cares, the happy killy time music is playing again! Love that tune! (singing) WEEEEE-oooo, WEEEEE-ooo...."

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	pensive1 2009-05-06 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	IT WORKED FOR 'KISS KISS BANG BANG'!!! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	angelophile 2009-05-07 06:21 am UTC (link)
	Indeed, i used that example elsewhere. A similar style narration would work wonderfully, in my mind. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	amandeo 2009-05-07 09:23 am UTC (link)
	AND THE EMPERORS NEW GROOVE. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	comicoz 2009-05-07 09:31 am UTC (link)
	I can totally picture Deadpool as the Cusco. "Look, I'm a llama. WITH GUNS! Weeeee" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lookingforsigns 2009-05-07 12:21 pm UTC (link)
	I remember something similar happening in the Hulk vs. Wolverine animated movie. All the Weapon X baddies do their poses right before going after Wolverine and in the back Deadpool yells "Strike a pose!". That'd work. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	filbypott 2009-05-06 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	Couldn't they just use, I dunno, yellow subtitles? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-05-06 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	But reading is hard! (Reply to this) (Parent)

dejadrew
2009-05-06 09:45 pm UTC (link)

Mmmnah. That would be kinda tacked on. Wade's insanity lets him see the world as it really is (fictional). If you move him into a movie, you should have him calling attention to MOVIE tropes. Getting whiplash from fast cuts. Going "Wheee!" during a fast zoom.

Subtitles could work if there were a scene with people talking in a foreign language, though:

"I didn't know you spoke Japanese."

"I don't! I was just reading the text at the bottom of the screen!"

"... Huh?"

「え？何と言っているか？...」 ("Huh? What's he talking about?")

"Dude, slow down! The slow readers in the audience can't keep up!"

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	pensive1 2009-05-06 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	LOL. Too bad Wade speaks like a dozen languages (he could still do this gag and it be funny) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seanmonster 2009-05-07 06:07 am UTC (link)
	A lot of films already use yellow subtitles. I guess they're easier on the eyes. They're certainly easier to see on black& white films. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	vignettelante 2009-05-06 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	Sweet. Somehow I don't see them making his body as, ah, lumpy? as Deadpool's, though. Wouldn't want to cheat the paying customers out of their fan service and all. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-05-06 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	Lumpy body + Marvel Girl uniform? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dejadrew 2009-05-06 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	... I would pay a great deal of money to see a movie which had Ryan Reynolds in a Marvel Girl costume plzkthnxbye. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	irenem 2009-05-07 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Tentative motto? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashez2ashes 2009-05-06 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	"But along with superhuman powers, enhanced strength and self-regenerating healing powers, the slightly unhinged Deadpool can absorb the abilities of dead and captured mutants." WTF yahoo news. That better be wrong. Stop them Ryan! You're our only hope! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	benicio127 2009-05-06 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	I know.. when I walked out of the theatre last night I was mightily upset about the portrayal of Deadpool. Also stayed in the theatre for after the credits but didn't get the super secret ending everyone's talking about. I would have been slightly more appeased if I saw that. I only had to read just one comic to fall in love with Deadpool. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	vignettelante 2009-05-07 11:43 am UTC (link)
	What the--Deadpool is Sylar now? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jasper_stars 2009-05-06 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	If there's anything I hate, it's writers/producers/directors (all those yahoos) messing up a classic and badass character like Deadpool. May the movie gods smile down upon this project and make it become AWESOME AND MAKE OF CRACK... just like our beloved Deadpool. :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	stratosfyr 2009-05-06 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	Not that I don't adore the 'Poolmeister, but this might be the first time I've heard of anything co-created by Rob Liefeld unsarcastically called "classic." That said I hope Fabian Nicieza and Rob get a mention in the credits. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ian_karkull 2009-05-06 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Not that a Deadpool movie wouldn't be awesome in it's own rights, but honestly, I'd totally watch anything that has Ryan Reynolds running around in tight clothes, being all Ninja ~~and possibly being tied up in a dungeon for an extended period~~* for one and a half hour. *What? It worked in Blade 2.. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashez2ashes 2009-05-06 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	I always thought Reynolds was secretly pretending to be Deadpool in that movie. lol (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sherkahn 2009-05-06 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	I got it!!! Movie Deadpol has to keep yapping or his mouth gets sealed shut again. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	seanmonster 2009-05-07 06:09 am UTC (link)
	Hah! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	vignettelante 2009-05-07 11:46 am UTC (link)
	"Stop talking, and your mouth seals shut! Keep talking, and get crushed to death by a giant teddy bear!" Not that Deadpool would have made the choice any differently, but it could have been an interesting wrinkle to the trap. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	erlgirl_9 2009-05-06 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	Bugger me, the video doesn't work. Anyone have a link? (Reply to this)

	juniper200.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	Reynolds loves Deadpool. I trust him. (Reply to this)

	tacobob 2009-05-06 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	Now they just need to get some good writers..And a good director..And DEADPOOL HAS TO BE IN HIS COSTUME! They can get the guy who made the Spidey-Suit..And I like Ryan Reynolds..He at least knows the character. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	erlgirl_9 2009-05-07 03:19 pm UTC (link)
	So much YES to the costume, because that thing is made of sex. (Reply to this) (Parent)

foxhack
2009-05-07 12:17 am UTC (link)

The big issues I see with a movie:

One, Deadpool's always masked, and you kinda have to see the main protagonist's face quite a bit. Even Tobey Maguire walked around maskless in the Spider-Man movies.

Two, a masked person just doesn't work. You -can't- see Deadpool's expressions in film. His smile, his grin, all of that. It just won't work unless it's CGI.

Three, I don't think Reynolds will want to go full-body makeup for any naked Deadpool scenes.

Four, if Weasel ain't in this then I want no part of it.

Fifth, Bea Arthur ain't alive for a cameo. :(

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	seanmonster 2009-05-07 06:13 am UTC (link)
	Deadpool isn't always masked anymore. Sometimes it's half up for eating/drinking, sometimes he's even in street clothes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	vignettelante 2009-05-07 11:43 am UTC (link)
	TVTropes informs me that they toyed around with the idea of using CGI to give Spider-Man an expressive mask, but decided it was too "uncanny valley". But that sort of creepiness is perfectly in line with Deadpool, so they should totally go with that approach. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	erlgirl_9 2009-05-07 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	Holograms? Esp. if Weasel's in the movie, DP could pull it off having that kind of tech. What would be especially awesome is if Deadpool went out and about as Ryan Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds playing Deadpool playing Ryan Reynolds. Knowing he is in a movie. Knowing that it is Ryan Reynolds playing him. I think I'd want to see that. (Reply to this) (Parent)