Deadpool 2 To Start Filming At The Beginning Of Next Year

Twentieth Century Fox plans to begin filming Deadpool 2 in early 2017, according to Producer Simon Kinberg. “The guys, [Pual] Wernick and [Rhett] Reese, are working on the script, and we hope to have a script very soon,” Kinberg told Collider. “We hope to shoot the movie sometime at the beginning of next year.”

Kinberg also addressed the present and future of the X-Men film franchise. Despite what was considered a disappointing box office by media outlets, Kinberg says Fox is pleased with the performance of X-Men: Apocalypse, which is the third highest grossing film in the franchise, behind Deadpool and X-Men: Days of Future Past. “The truth is Days of Future Past is sort of an outlier for an X-Men movie,” Kinberg explained. “We’d never made more than $500 million before, and Days was kind of like our Avengers, where we brought this sort of mega-cast together. We hoped this movie would do the same as Days of Future Past, but we had a feeling that maybe it would, maybe it wouldn’t. It’s a different kind of film than Days of Future Past.”

While the start of production on Deadpool is still months away, Fox is deep in production on The Wolverine 3. Fox has been very secretive with Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine movie, and Kinberg says that’s part of the experience they’re trying to create for viewers. “I can only tell you that it’s going extremely well and that’s about all I will tell you about it,” he said. “We want it to be discovered the way that we used to watch movies a long time ago when you didn’t know everything about them before you went to go see them.” That said, he doesn’t let the set photos that do get out bother him. “I think that’s just the reality of the world now. We know photos are going to get out, and we also hope or know that people are savvy enough to know that the photos they see that are candids or paparazzi shots are different than what it look like through the camera, so we just live with it.”

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