Deadpool: Ryan Reynolds Happy To Give Up Big Budget For More Freedom
Ryan Reynolds has wanted to make a Deadpool movie since 2005, and now ten years later he finally [...]
Ryan Reynolds has wanted to make a Deadpool movie since 2005, and now ten years later he finally got his wish. Sadly, it took test footage leaking out to finally get 20th Century Fox to budge on a green light.
"When the footage leaked, it showed them just how big the appetite was for this film and this character, and they let us make it," Reynolds told Vulture while doing press for his new movie Woman in Gold. "And they're letting us make it, in large part, in the way that we want to make it. Part of that is because the budget is what the craft-service budget would be on a normal X-Men movie, but it's actually wonderful. We get to do the character in the way we want to, even though we're not necessarily going to be blowing up stadiums."
I'm glad no stadiums will be harmed during the making of Tim Miller's Deadpool. Of course, the big issue with Deadpool the character, is that he has a unique balance of over-the-top comedy and ultra-violence. "First of all, it's a hard character to understand," Reynolds admits. "Deadpool is a hyper-meta, self-aware guy who has terminal cancer and understands that he's in a comic book. That's a tough guy to fit into the X-Men universe you've been building for two decades, so for them, this was all about risk-management."
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Deadpool slices into theaters February 12, 2016.
