Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and hopefully by now you’ve seen the Deadpool comic con
trailer.
What happened was a high def version of test footage was leaked by the people that made
the footage.
Fox commissioned them to do a test for a Deadpool movie back in 2011.
So that footage was what you were watching if you saw it.
This video is going to be a breakdown of what that whole thing was about and what’s going
on with the Deadpool movie right now.
A couple of big people close to the project are doing a fun experiment.
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So starting with the leaked footage.
Here’s the real story:
Blur Studios is the effects house that made the trailer.
They are the ones that posted it the week before comic con.
It was done without Fox’s knowledge, Fox had nothing to do with it and right after
it posted the video was taken down.
Then people reuploaded it and it got taken down again, rinse and repeat.
The trailer wasn’t part of a Fox Panel or anything.
It was just the people behind the film trying to get Fox to see that there was demand for
it.
Even though the Test Footage is from 2011, FOX still hasn’t given the movie a greenlight.
The trailer itself features Ryan Reynolds voicing the character and presumably he’s
still down to play the role if the movie ever happens.
Here’s some background on where the movie is:
There is a finished script.
It was written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
Ryan Reynolds along with all the other people who have read it say it’s great.
Up at the top, Lauren Schuler Donner and fellow producer Simon Kinberg are open to the idea
of a Deadpool movie but the belief is that other people at Fox are hesitant to make an
R-Rated Comic Book movie.
I feel like we can all agree that a Deadpool movie would have to be a hard-R in order to
be taken seriously.
The source material isn’t like anything we’ve seen recently and that’s part of
the reason why we haven’t heard anything new about the movie.
For example, Guardians of the Galaxy is a movie about a bunch of assholes being ridiculous
and funny and violent.
But Deadpool is a cold-blooded killer, it’s in the name.
His body count would be higher than a zombie apocalypse movie.
Right now, the comic book movie culture is tuned for family friendly stories.
The closest example of a hard R marvel film is the last Punisher film, War Zone.
Any time you walk into an office at FOX and ask for 70 Million dollars to make an R-Rated
comic book movie, all they have to do is point at Punisher and say “it’s not going to
work”.
Nobody wants to make a movie that isn’t guaranteed to earn a billion dollars.
How do you make a Deadpool movie that earns a billion dollars?
There are a couple of options.
Mostly, you tune it down to PG 13 so you can market it to a bigger audience.
Also, foreign markets like China have very strict rules about violence in films.
If you can get a movie released in China, that’s an extra 100 million dollars you
could potentially make.
That’s why Transformers put so many Chinese things in their movie.
So the Chinese government would release it.
The government controls which movies get released there.
It’s crazy I know.
But all most studios care about is making money.
Which is where we get to the creators and the Deadpool Experiment that’s happening
right now.
Right now on twitter Rhett Reese, the guy who wrote the script started an experiment
to see who would buy a ticket for an R-Rated Deadpool movie.
Even Rob Liefeld, the artist on the Deadpool comic book jumped on board.
It just started but I’ll post a link in the description if you guys want to participate.
He’s just asking you to retweet his tweet as a way to show FOX people really are interested
in a Deadpool movie.
I know a lot of you guys are asking why don’t they just do a Kickstarter?
If fans want it bad enough, they’ll fund it themselves.
The reason they can’t do that is FOX owns the rights, so the only way the filmmakers
could kickstart a Deadpool movie would be if FOX said okay.
And they haven’t, so no kickstarter.
I haven’t read the script, but here are my top picks for stories I think they should
do:
At the top is Joe Kelley’s run.
It’s collected in an omnibus if you guys haven’t read it yet, his run started in
1997.
He’s the one that gave Deadpool all the signature character traits you see in the
current comics.
Start to finish it was one of the best collections of Deadpool stories ever.
Most of the Deadpool pictures you see people posting come from this run.
After that there’s Deadpool’s time on X-Force.
It’s Rick Remender’s run on Uncanny X-Force.
It’s collected in an omnibus too in case you guys want to read it all.
It started in 2010 with Uncanny X-Force Number 1 and went to issue 35.
There is an X-Force movie in development at Fox, so even if they don’t give Deadpool
a solo movie, they could make him a member of X-Force or at least a part of the movie
if he’s not a part of the team.
Usually when people make new team-based comic book movies they keep it really simple.
Like X-Men started with a small cast and then expanded.
So I’m not expecting Fox to jam Deadpool into their first X-Force movie.
But he could cameo like he did in Wolverine Origins.
After those two runs, I think Merc With A Mouth would make for a great movie.
That was Deadpool in the Savage Land.
Picture him walking around with his decaying severed head that he talks too.
That might be a little much to expect from a movie, but I’d love to see them include
the talking head as an easter egg.
They kind of did that in the Wolverine Origins movie but it’s not about him just talking
to a severed head.
The head has to look like he’s been carrying it around all year.
Super gross but not quite a skeleton.
Let me know if you guys would rather see Ryan Reynolds come back or if you want to see someone
new.
His career has kind of hit a speedbump recently so this seems like the kind of project he
would jump on just because it’s high profile.
I’d really like to see somebody new come in.
Zachary Quinto did a great job of playing a crazy supervillain on Heroes even if that
show lost some steam, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is another person who’s great at playing
crazy people.
I don’t picture deadpool with a british accent and if you saw Dracula Season 1, I
hated his fake american accent.
But he’s another strong choice.
If Jeremy Renner weren’t already Hawkeye I would add him to my Deadpool list.
Interesting side note: there was actually an awesome Deadpool vs Hawkeye storyline in
the comics during Dark Reign.
Sam Worthington would have to go a little over the top but he has the right physique
for it.
And I could maybe get on board with Tom Hardy.
I’m looking forward to seeing him in Mad Max fury road.
I think he’d have a harder time selling the comedic aspects of Deadpool, but I think
he could do it.
But let me know which other actors you think would make good Deadpool’s.
As of right now I don’t think we’ll see an actual Deadpool movie until after X-Force.
And that movie won’t get here till well after X-Men Apocalypse.
They are working on a new Old Man Logan Wolverine solo movie for Hugh Jackman so expect that
to come before Deadpool too.
I think those movies are the real reason FOX isn’t rushing into Deadpool.
They feel like they have the X-Men and Wolverine movie formula down.
They can make those movies and guarantee a big profit.
So they don’t have to scramble for new franchises.
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