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Vancouver’s own Ryan Reynolds returns to his hometown this Spring to film big budget feature Deadpool aka The Merc With a Mouth directed by VFX whiz Tim Miller. Deadpool is the character Reynolds played in Wolverine, an X-Men Origins movie starring Hugh Jackman, but that film wasn’t true to the amoral motormouth. In Marvel comic-book lore. Wade Winston Wilson is a wise-cracking gun-for-hire with cancer who partakes in military experiments to cure himself by replicating Wolverine’s mutant ability to heal quickly. The experiment succeeds except Wilson ends up terribly scarred. In Wolverine, Deadpool was surgically altered and mouthless. What a waste.
Zombieland screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick worked with Ryan Reynolds in 2010 to correct the mistake and restore the character to a non-stop quipster who hides his ravaged face behind a red and black mask and breaks the fourth wall to talk to the audience. Two years later, director Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds made motion capture test footage based on the Deadpool script. The clip leaked online and went viral — over 3.5 million views to date — which led Fox to greenlight the movie.
Deadpool the movie is expected to get underway in Vancouver around March 23rd and film here until May 23rd (dates subject to change).
So #$#@#@ Excited for this movie and for it to be filmed in my favorite city by one of my favorite actors portraying my facorite Marvel Character its all a comic nerd could ever dream for! I hope he comes to fan expo vancouver.
Do you guys have any information regardless the contact to the production of the movie? Like to drop resumes or something like that?