Two months after locking down the creative team of Miller, Wernick and Reese, in June of 2011, Reynolds’ Green Lantern opened. Instead of a yes man, Fox decided to hire a director that wasn’t afraid to go his own way.īut a pest of a filmmaker was the least of Fox’s problems, as far as Deadpool was concerned. It was epic and cinematic, everything they want their comic book movies to be.? ?īecause of Miller’s success making short films and trailers, insiders say he wasn’t concerned with being politic to get the Deadpool gig. It showed Lex Luthor and a band of super-villains killing Earth’s mightiest heroes, and it melted fanboys’ eyeballs. And this one even had a best animated short Oscar.? ?One of the things that got Miller the gig was a six-minute trailer he made for the DC Universe Online video game. Studios sometime like first-time directors because they can be easy to control and tend to do what they’re told.
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The Fox movie mangled the character completely: Here was a profane, wise-cracking antihero, nicknamed the Merc with a Mouth, and he was turned into not only a cheap villain but one whose mouth literally was sewn shut for the scenes in which he became Deadpool.? ? Wade Wilson, Deadpool’s alter ego, made his cinematic debut in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, played by Ryan Reynolds. It’s fitting, then, that to get the movie actually made, the creative team shattered the usual rules of studio moviemaking. ? ? The character quickly developed a small but loyal following for his irreverent, status quo-shattering sensibilities. Deadpool was created fairly recently - at least as far as comic book characters go - in 1990, by artist Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza. To explain, one has to go back to the beginning. Neither 20th Century Fox nor Miller’s reps would comment, bu t I’ve spoken with many key inside sources involved with the project, and most fingers point to Hollywood’s newest man of the hour, who, amazingly, is making his feature directorial debut on a massive tentpole at 50 years of age.
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