Wolverine's Ryan Reynolds Dives In for Deadpool Spinoff
It's official: The mutants are taking over Hollywood. And we're not talking about the freaks running the studios.
Following the monster weekend for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and a day after announcing that a Hugh Jackman-powered sequel is in the works, 20th Century Fox has confirmed to E! News that Jackman's costar Ryan Reynolds will be given his own spinoff and potential franchise-launcher as the Marvel Comics antihero Deadpool.
The 32-year-old Canadian actor, otherwise known as Mr. Scarlett Johansson, will again star as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking, cancer-stricken mercenary who's cured of the disease after undergoing the same Weapon X genetic alteration as Wolverine.
But along with superhuman powers, enhanced strength and self-regenerating healing powers, the slightly unhinged Deadpool can absorb the abilities of dead and captured mutants.
Aside from Deadpool and the Wolverine sequel, Fox is also working on an X-Men spinoff focusing on Ian McKellen's villainous Magneto and another dubbed X-Men: First Class, which is being written by The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz.
I for one [and I know BK will be too!] am freakin' EXCITED! Deadpool [and Gambit for me] made the Wolverine movie, and i'm SOOO excited that the character is getting a spinoff movie!!
And the Magneto movie [if true] sounds really good too. What I hated the most about the first three X-Men movies were that they were Wolverine centered. It was so annoying and disheartening to watch because there are so many other fantastic mutants that were overshadowed because of the character. So i'm happy to see OTHER mutants taking front and center besides him.
It's official: The mutants are taking over Hollywood. And we're not talking about the freaks running the studios.
Following the monster weekend for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and a day after announcing that a Hugh Jackman-powered sequel is in the works, 20th Century Fox has confirmed to E! News that Jackman's costar Ryan Reynolds will be given his own spinoff and potential franchise-launcher as the Marvel Comics antihero Deadpool.
The 32-year-old Canadian actor, otherwise known as Mr. Scarlett Johansson, will again star as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking, cancer-stricken mercenary who's cured of the disease after undergoing the same Weapon X genetic alteration as Wolverine.
But along with superhuman powers, enhanced strength and self-regenerating healing powers, the slightly unhinged Deadpool can absorb the abilities of dead and captured mutants.
Aside from Deadpool and the Wolverine sequel, Fox is also working on an X-Men spinoff focusing on Ian McKellen's villainous Magneto and another dubbed X-Men: First Class, which is being written by The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz.
I for one [and I know BK will be too!] am freakin' EXCITED! Deadpool [and Gambit for me] made the Wolverine movie, and i'm SOOO excited that the character is getting a spinoff movie!!
And the Magneto movie [if true] sounds really good too. What I hated the most about the first three X-Men movies were that they were Wolverine centered. It was so annoying and disheartening to watch because there are so many other fantastic mutants that were overshadowed because of the character. So i'm happy to see OTHER mutants taking front and center besides him.
