Deadpool is one of Marvel Comic's most popular characters at the moment, and despite receiving very lacklustre treatment in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (seriously, you have have a character whose whole bit is being fast talking comic relief, and you make it so he never speaks!?), Fox have being trying to get a solo movie for Deadpool, with Ryan Reynolds again reprising the role, off the ground for years. Zombieland's Rhet Reese and Paul Wernick have written the script, one that has already received an awful lot of praise, and it one stage had first time director Tim Miller attached, but due to a number of setbacks it never materialised. Reynolds is still on board to play the fourth wall breaking, quick healing mercenary (he was fantastic in the role before the the movie all went to hell), and in a recent interview with Total Film, he gave an insight into the state of the project:
"That movie is alive and kicking, and then it's dead as a doornail. Then it's alive and then it's dead.... it's like worst relationship I've ever had!"
I get the impression he is kind of frustrated by it, and I wouldn't blame him. He also went onto to describe some of the script, showing how the character's awareness that he is a work of fiction would fit in the movie:
"The character knows he's a comic-book character, he knows he's in a film, he knows who the executives are at the studio making the movie. In the current iteration of the script, Deadpool is aware of the Wolverine movie. He doesn't say anything disparaging about it, but he does at one point play with the Deadpool action figure with some curiosity."
A lot of comic book movies lately have being going down the dark and gritty route popularised by The Dark Knight. It suits some characters, but it doesn't suit others. I think a Deadpool movie would be a breath of fresh air, offering something a bit different, while having a lot of fun at the same time. He is a character with a lot of potential, if handled properly (i.e. not how he was handled in X-Men Origins). I really hope we see him on the big screen sooner rather than later.
