Friday
16Oct2009
'Deadpool' to Completely Ignore 'Wolverine'
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 9:43PM
Stupid. That's the only thing I can say about this. X-Men Origins: Wolverine had a perfectly fine troika of Wolverine, Sabertooth, and William Stryker, evidenced by the fact that they're the only nearly complete performances in the entire movie. Beyond that, though, the movie was designed to introduce a bunch of other characters who might get spin-offs. The problem is, none of those characters really influenced the outcome of the movie.
"It's going to be a dark, snarky, very funny movie. It's the hardest story to tell, I think. There's no clear cut villain - though you do have great baddies from the comic-books like Black Tom, Slayback, Blind Al and the Weasel. Blind Al is this blind woman in his house, who he abuses and mocks... it's terrible. But you find out that she was a convict who did something terrible and he saved her from execution. So he lets her live in his house and she looks after him, but they both torture each other."Honestly, I didn't even read that paragraph myself; I just copied it from Empire to make this article longer. No wonder Ryan Reynolds signed up from Green Lantern. This Deadpool thing makes me nervous and I'm not staking my career on it.
Reader Comments (6)
1. You're forgetting the part where this is all about money.
2. The Deadpool character is really great, it's just the wolverine movie that messed up everything.
Yeah, the Deadpool movie will probably suck, if only because of general comic book-movie averages. But you've got to place the blame squarely at the feet of Wolverine film for the reasons you mention above. Then again, seeing as how the Wolverine movie seemingly has nothing to do with the X-Men timeline, mayybe we can ignore the Wolverine timeline for future films.
I agree with the last post - it was the Wolverine movie that screwed with the character storylines. The inclusion of Deadpool was a mistake to begin with. It sounds like Donner is on the right track for a new Deadpool with the character names he's already dropped.
Ignoring the Wolverine movie is exactly what they should be doing. To keep going with what they did in Wolverine would just be idiotic. I don't see how what Donner is saying could make anyone lose interest. Anyone who actually knows something about Deadpool would only be more interested by this news. Of course FOX will screw it up anyway because thats how they do things.
Actually all I can say is there is some intelligence in Hollywood on this one. The Wolverine movie totally hosed up the Deadpool character. If they stayed with that story you would have a super mutant with no voice. Oh that sounds like a good movie. Re-boot the character and follow the comic. Its not that hard. If the guys who made Wolverine had just stuck with the comic story lines Wolverine would not have sucked.
If you are going to change story lines dont hose up characters people love. Leave them as they are in comics. Wolverine has claws and a healing. Deadpool has a screwed up face, is a total smart ass and has healing. Ok now with those thoughts in mind lets make a movie. Wow without all of the mutant powers and special effects my thoughts just saved the studio about 10 million.
Oh, I'm not saying Deadpool shouldn't be independent of Wolverine, I'm only pointing out how stupid it was to have him in Wolverine in the first place. If the idea was to string moviegoers along to his spin-off based on an X-Men Origins movie they probably didn't like, didn't Fox shoot itself in the foot, maybe even twice? They gave audiences a bad version of Deadpool, so why would people less familiar with him go back the second time?
Fox isn't really good at making comic book movies these days...
I'm getting really tired of the word "reboot"