'Zombieland' Writers May Tackle 'Deadpool' Script

Deadpool may not need help, but it certainly needs to be different. He's a fantastic character, they probably have the right actor to portray him in Ryan Reynolds, and it could be the sort of comic book movie the two majors desperately need: Not full of itself, not overly dark and somber, not a true tentpole. But something happened on the way to heaven, as Phil Collins once forgettably sang. Deadpool was latched onto this summer's Wolverine, and too uncomfortably for my taste. Fortunately (or not, depending on your perspective), the events of Wolverine have no bearing on the Deadpool movie...so pay no attention to what you saw, if you even did the first time. Now CHUD reports that Deadpool may hire Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick of Zombieland fame to hammer out the script and give it the kind of left-of-center inappropriateness that is so appropriate. Reynolds has already said - as CHUD reminds us - that his character will break the fourth wall and talk directly to the camera. That didn't exactly happen in Zombieland, but Jesse Eisenberg wasn't a narrator in the way that Morgan Freeman narrated Shawshank; he knew he was a movie character. And that's much the same here. Reynolds has a dream director in mind - he mentioned Tarantino recently - but that isn't going to happen. However, it gives you the vibe Marvel/Fox/Reynolds want to incorporate in the film, which, since it already stands apart from its antecedent, could be way off the beaten path. And to that, I say hallelujah.

Comments

[anybody]

I don't really like his flicks but I must say that Timur Bekmambetov could be right for this movie...

[Get The Big Picture]

That's not a bad call at all. He'd want to produce, so that could be a hurdle.