DIGITAL SPY: I've got to start with asking if there are any concrete plans for a sequel?
RYAN REYNOLDS: Ah, there are no... none of the plans have been immersed in concrete.
As far as I know. But we'll see.
T.J. MILLER: I made a concrete statue of what I think Weasel would look like in his spin-off.
And so I gave that to the president of Fox, and I'm still waiting to hear back.
RR: Chiseled. TM: I did chisel it!
RR: Chiseled from Chiswick, that what this sequel is called.
TM: Chiseled jaw
RR: Er, there is talk to answer your question seriously. There is talk but we don't know.
TM: There is talk between Ryan and I primarily, that's it.
RR: Mostly it's been text.
TM: It's on the phone, it's texting, yeah.
DS: How did you get into the midset of playing a complete sociopath like Ajax?
ED SKREIN: The two reference points, throughout the whole movie, were Rutger Hauer's character
in Blade Runner, Roy Batty
And Harold Shipman, the serial killer.
But what we wanted was, somebody who wasn't evil, but somebody who's lacking empathy and
positive feelings such as remorse and responsibility and all of that. So it was interesting and
pretty dark researching Ajax as a character.
DS: If you were having a cross-over film, how would you combine Deadpool's comedy with the X-Men's seriousness?
RR: Well I think that they're somewhat complimentary in some ways but that's tough.
TM: There's a little bit of that in the movie.
RR: Yeah, yeah you do see that in the film, but you have to respect the X-Men Universe
in as much a there are millions and millions of fans out there that love the X-Men universe
and they don't want some character coming in and monkeying around with their mythology.
But what I think works best with Deadpool is pairing him with somebody who is actually
just quite literally the opposite of him, which is why we have Colossus in the movie.
I'd love to see them create an X-Force movie in the future, that would be really fun.
TM: But he's right, you've got to respect the X-Men.
Respect
X
Men
RR: ... Or that
DS: What is the one Deadpool story that you would advise people to read?
ES: The Daniel Way collection. The Daniel Way collection is phenomenal, I mean there
is four volumes to it. I particularly love the mini-series with Hulk. He becomes really
depressed and he's just like 'I can't die' and he's just like 'I can't be bothered with
all of this, like if I can't die... pfft'.
And he becomes, it gets really dark. And so he's like 'no one can kill me, none of these
guys are strong enough... Hulk! I'm gonna fight Hulk, I'm gonna wind up Hulk and get
him to kill me!'. And usually when you see Hulk in the comics, everyone's trying to run
away from him, but he's giving him nuclear weapons and getting them to blow up in Hulk's arms
so that Hulk will come back angrier, and it's a wonderful, wonderful mini-series.
DS: Who would Deadpool's ultimate superhero show-down be with?
RR: For me, as just a Deadpool fan, it would be with Death, because he's both in love with
Death and there's a very complicated relationship there. So I would love to see that, I just
think, with Deadpool you take expectation and come 90 degrees to it. But if I had to
choose someone in the X-Men universe, I would probably have to say Wolverine or something.
I would sort of love to see Deadpool and Magneto in the same room, and see how that plays out.
DS: What would Deadpool's message be to the Chinese censors that refused his film?
RR: (In style of a movie trailer) In a world, divided by fear, one man must stand alone...
Deadpool. Rated 'fuck you, you'll never see this'!
(Laughter)
RR: No, honestly, it's easy for me to wear that as a badge of honour, like 'we got banned
in China!', I hate that. I love China and I'd love the people of China to see Deadpool.
TM: It's too bad because, the reason they're banning it is I don't think they get a lot
of the irony. Ironic humour isn't huge in China. But they have such a good sense of
humour, there's so many hilarious action movies there, that's what this is.
It is a bummer that that market won't get to see it. So we encourage everybody to make
there way over to America and check it out, starting in February!