Ashleigh Hill-Buxton
Has Fox, who are ostensibly caring more and more about their superhero projects these days (thank god, we don’t need another “Elektra” on our ticket stub), already shot some test-footage for “Deadpool”?
Sounds like it.
Comic writer and illustrator Rob Liefeld, as quoted by Bleeding Cool, says Wade Wilson’s solo movie is shaping up to be something special; it’s in the same verbal assessment that he mentioned that he’s already previewed some test footage.
“They’ve got a great director on the movie, they’ve got a great script. I may or may have not seen some sort of test of footage that would blow your mind if you saw it and go holy crap and that’s Deadpool in costume. Katana swords, guns, shooting people’s faces off and making me laugh. And I may or may not have seen something that looks just like that. And you’ve got what would amount to the first R-rated X-Men movie. Because that script is R-rated.
They may or may not have wanted to shoot eight minutes to see how it would play. And all I can tell you, it’s close. It’s closer that it’s even been to going, or going Naaah, that’s too scary a proposition to make an R-rated Deadpool movie.”
Though Ryan Reynolds is playing the role of Deadpool, the same role he played in “X-Men Origins : Wolverine”, apparently the film’s much less a spin-off of the latter and more it’s own thing.
