Well I alluded to this news in a previous post, but I made you wait, for suspense, hehe. The Rhett Reese/Paul Wernick screenwriting team from Zombieland has landed the job of writing the script for Twentieth Century Fox’s Deadpool adaptation of the Marvel comic. I’m happy with this due to their other new screenwriting job on GI Joe 2 as well as the fact that their tone from Zombieland could easily be retrofitted for Deadpool.
Ryan Reynolds is set to the star in the flick, thankfully, despite the fact that X-Men Origins: Wolverine basically took an elephant crap on the character (COME ON! Weapon 11? Give me a break, a fookin’ prawn could’ve made a better movie). Despite the bullshit that swirled around Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds will be returning to the character as soon as production for Green Lantern finishes.
So far, so awesome. Ryan Reynolds is the perfect actor to play the role of the sarcastic, quick-witted, and 4th-wall-breaking anti-hero. In addition to that, the writers for Zombieland really had their shit together in terms of the comedic lines and the overall tone. Assuming the Wolverine story arc gets retconned, in old-fashioned Marvel style, Deadpool looks like it might be the best comic book adaption to hit the silver screen in a long time. I guess we’ll just have to play the crying…I mean waiting game (oops, whoa, that would be a whole different game, with more penis too!)
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