Deadpool is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is intended to be the eighth installment in the X-Men film series. The film is directed by Tim Miller, with a screenplay by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J. Miller, Gina Carano, Brianna Hildebrand, Andre Tricoteux, and Leslie Uggams. In Deadpool, after being subjected to an experiment which leaves him with new abilities, Wade Wilson hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
In February 2004, development for the film began with New Line Cinema. However, in March 2005, New Line Cinema put the film inturnaround and 20th Century Fox became interested. In May 2009, 20th Century Fox lent the film to writers, and in April 2011, Miller was hired to direct. Principal photography commenced in Vancouver, Canada, in March 2015 and ended in May.
Deadpool is scheduled for release on February 12, 2016, in North America.
Development[edit]
"There's definitely a sort of overall plan that we've all been talking about for the X-Men universe now, and Deadpool obviously fits into that. So yeah, I guess I would say it's part of certainly an overall timeline and thought process that goes into these films."
—Producer Simon Kinberg on Deadpool's place in the X-Menfilm series[18]
In May 2000, Artisan Entertainment announced a deal with Marvel Entertainment to coproduce, finance and distribute a film based on Deadpool.[19] In February 2004, New Line Cinema attempted to produce a Deadpool film with writer/director David S. Goyer working on the spin-off and actor Ryan Reynolds in the title role.[20][21] However, by August, Goyer lost interest in favor of other projects.[22] In March 2005, 20th Century Fox became interested in moving forward on production for Deadpool after New Line Cinema put the project in turnaround.[23] The studio considered theDeadpool spin-off early in the development of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with Reynolds being cast for the role.[20] After the opening weekend success of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the studio announced that it was lending Deadpool out to writers with Donner acting as a producer.[24] Donner said that she wanted the film to ignore the Deadpool of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and reboot the character. She also stated that Deadpool will have the attributes that the character has in the comics, such as breaking the fourth wall.[25] Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were hired to write the script in January 2010.[26] Robert Rodriguez was sent an early draft of the screenplay in June 2010.[27] After negotiations with Rodriguez fell through, Adam Berg emerged as a top contender to direct.[28] In April 2011, visual effects specialist Tim Miller was hired as director.[29] On July 28, 2014, visual effects test footage created for the film in 2012 and featuring Ryan Reynolds by voice and motion capture, was leaked online.[30] The following day, the test footage was officially released online by Blur Studio, the company who created the test footage.[31] In September 2014, due to the positive response of the test footage, the film was given a release date of February 12, 2016.[32]
In October 2014, producer Simon Kinberg said that the film would be part of the shared cinematic universe with the other X-Men films.[33] Marvel characters Cannonball andGarrison Kane were deleted from subsequent rewrites of the script, with the latter specifically being omitted due to budgetary concerns over the required CGI for his cybernetic arms, and the former being omitted due to concerns he would have been a "stupid hick character".[13] Wyre was initially going to appear as an additional villain, but was cut for unknown reasons. There were also plans to have the Marvel superhero Cable appear, but it was decided that he would work better in a future installment if one is made.
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