I don't get it (X-MEN NEWS!)...
I really don't get it...
It's official: The mutants are taking over Hollywood. And we're not talking about the freaks running the studios.
Following the monster weekend for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and a day after announcing that a Hugh Jackman-powered sequel is in the works, 20th Century Fox has confirmed to E! News that Jackman's costar Ryan Reynolds will be given his own spinoff and potential franchise-launcher as the Marvel Comics antihero Deadpool.
The 32-year-old Canadian actor, otherwise known as Mr. Scarlett Johansson, will again star as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking, cancer-stricken mercenary who's cured of the disease after undergoing the same Weapon X genetic alteration as Wolverine.
But along with superhuman powers, enhanced strength and self-regenerating healing powers, the slightly unhinged Deadpool can absorb the abilities of dead and captured mutants.
Aside from Deadpool and the Wolverine sequel, Fox is also working on an X-Men spinoff focusing on Ian McKellen's villainous Magneto and another dubbed X-Men: First Class, which is being written by The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz.
[WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!]
Anyone who's seen X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE should know why I'm confused. If you're one of the few who haven't seen the movie...
I know Deadpool's got all this healing biz goin' on, which he gets from Wolverine. But through like half the movie, Wolverine's tryin' to cut off (his brother) Sabertooth's head... assuming THAT will actually kill the viscious bastard... which is EXACTLY what happens to Deadpool. So how the Hell's he come back? Plus, as a goof, the prick who created Deadpool (contrary to the comic books) took away his mouth completely. Don't ask me how he eats etc. But more importantly, if Hollywood doesn't find some way to change that, it'll be a real waste of an actor like Ryan Reynolds & a waste of a wise cracking character like Deadpool. Not to mention, the makeup makes it totally unnecessary to use Reynolds at all. It could just be a stuntman.
It's official: The mutants are taking over Hollywood. And we're not talking about the freaks running the studios.
Following the monster weekend for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and a day after announcing that a Hugh Jackman-powered sequel is in the works, 20th Century Fox has confirmed to E! News that Jackman's costar Ryan Reynolds will be given his own spinoff and potential franchise-launcher as the Marvel Comics antihero Deadpool.
The 32-year-old Canadian actor, otherwise known as Mr. Scarlett Johansson, will again star as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking, cancer-stricken mercenary who's cured of the disease after undergoing the same Weapon X genetic alteration as Wolverine.
But along with superhuman powers, enhanced strength and self-regenerating healing powers, the slightly unhinged Deadpool can absorb the abilities of dead and captured mutants.
Aside from Deadpool and the Wolverine sequel, Fox is also working on an X-Men spinoff focusing on Ian McKellen's villainous Magneto and another dubbed X-Men: First Class, which is being written by The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz.
[WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!]
Anyone who's seen X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE should know why I'm confused. If you're one of the few who haven't seen the movie...
I know Deadpool's got all this healing biz goin' on, which he gets from Wolverine. But through like half the movie, Wolverine's tryin' to cut off (his brother) Sabertooth's head... assuming THAT will actually kill the viscious bastard... which is EXACTLY what happens to Deadpool. So how the Hell's he come back? Plus, as a goof, the prick who created Deadpool (contrary to the comic books) took away his mouth completely. Don't ask me how he eats etc. But more importantly, if Hollywood doesn't find some way to change that, it'll be a real waste of an actor like Ryan Reynolds & a waste of a wise cracking character like Deadpool. Not to mention, the makeup makes it totally unnecessary to use Reynolds at all. It could just be a stuntman.