After the character was fumbled in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a Deadpool movie has promised to put things straight and give the superhero a big screen adventure worthy of his considerable popularity.
In an interview with the L. A. Times (via Superhero Hype) the star of Deadpool, and part time Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds discussed how the film would differ from Wolverine – and other comic-book movies in general.
It goes in such a different direction than a superhero movie usually goes. It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like ‘Barfly‘ if it were a superhero movie.
It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person. I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that.
Reynolds also admitted that they would unlikely spare the time to ease audiences in.
With Deadpool, it’s a lot like going to prison for the first day. You got to walk up and hit the biggest guy you see to establish a bit of cred. With Deadpool, early on you have to establish that moral flexibility. There’s a gamble to it — you’re going to lose a few people right at the beginning but you take the gamble and know that eventually you’re going to win them back. You won’t lose the hard-core fans of the character, they already know who he is.
We have to play to a broader audience than that. As an actor you have to be willing to do something like … back in Vancouver we used to call it a [nasty] burger. ’You gotta eat the [nasty] burger to get to the cookies.’ And yes, I want to write a cookbook about that…
Reynolds will next be seen – sans lycra – in Buried, a claustrophobic thriller which surfaces later this month in a cinema near you. As for the rest of this interview, you can continue reading here.
