Deadpool Movie Announced For Winter 2016 Release
By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2014 4:20 pm EST
The Deadpool movie release date is scheduled for February 12th 2016.
Tim Miller, a visual effects specialist who worked on multiple X-Men movies, worked with Zombieland/G.I. Joe Retaliation screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on a brand new draft of the meta-superhero script with a more affordable budget.
We’ve been covering this project since it was announced in 2009. The Deadpool movie adaptation has sat in limbo for a long time despite comic book fans banging on the movie studio walls. The character almost demands a hard-R rating, which is not something that happens now-a-days with big budget superhero adaptations. Ryan Reynolds has also been pushing hard for the film to happen since before the 2009 X-Men Origins: Wolverine film was even released.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine left Deadpool laying in the rubble, disfigured, and his mouth sewn shut. The film also deviated from the comic books, with Stryker transforming him into Weapon XI, complete with an amalgamation of other mutants superpowers. One of the easter egg endings included after the credits hinted that the character was not dead, with Deadpool reaching for his own decapitated talking head.
Some have speculated that a Deadpool spin-off could be a prequel to Wolverine, in an effort to forgo the issues created in that film. A sequel is probably more likely. The comic book version of the character wears a costume that covers his whole body, including his head, so it is possible for the character to appear without showing the face underneath the mask. Also, the character has healing powers, so it’s possible that he might look completely normal when we revisit him.
Reynolds has described the character as “a cross between Commando and Phantom of the Opera, by way of Caddyshack,” a wise-cracking mercenary with a tendency to break the fourth wall. Reynolds has said that a Deadpool movie would need to be a closer adaptation of the comic book, so that sets up the expectations.
