“I’ve always wanted to do Deadpool,” he enthusiastically told MTV. “I think I would forgo anything to play it in some incarnation."
Deadpool, of course, is not quite a household name, but a fan favorite character due to his dark sense of humor and the sarcastic quips he's known for when he unleashes his ninja skills, which earned him the nickname "The Merc with a Mouth." And also for that reason he is a ton of fun to play in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, I must say.
But bringing Deadpool to the big screen is not as easy, Reynolds observed.
“It’s a very tricky character to do. It’s hard R. It’s ambiguous whether he’s good or bad. He’s a mercenary. This is all to say nothing of the fact that his face is made entirely of scar tissue," he pointed out, referring to how hard it is to sell a movie where the main character has to wear a mask all the time. Recent superhero movies have always tried to get the heroes out of the mask as often as possible, partly to sell the actors, and partly because the directors want performances, not moving masks.
One thing even trickier that Reynolds forgot to mention is the fact that Deadpool is one of the very few comic book characters to know that he's a comic book character. Part of his fearlessness as a mercenary is that he realizes that it's all just some writer's imagination. He constantly makes fun of "events" and "crossovers", and is sometimes seen reading other heroes' comic books and make fun of them for it. He would also make remarks to other characters how they've last met in some issue. Because of this, other Marvel heroes consider him mentally disturbed.
“Hopefully, there’ll be [somebody] who has the balls to go there and make a really authentic, decent Deadpool movie,” Reynolds wished.
Well, I've got the solution right here. Put him in the Wolverine movie first. Deadpool originated from the same program that screwed Logan over. 'Pool aka Wade Wilson also got screwed with by Weapon X, which left him with the same healing powers Wolverine has.
Pit him against Wolverine, and then make way for a solo later on if he proves to be popular enough with general audiences. Of course, we'll have to hold off the fourth wall thing, but hey, at least introduce him and realize Ryan Reynolds' dream. He's much better suited to be Deadpool than Flash, just because of his smirky demeanor. It's really a great fit.
