The Merc with a Mouth has more to say. Deadpool 2 (working title Love Machine) with Vancouver’s own Ryan Reynolds as the non-stop quipster will film in metro Vancouver this summer.
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The sequel had been expected to go into production early this year, but the surprise departure of director Tim Miller last Fall — after what the Hollywood Reporter calls “creative differences” between the VFX whiz and star Ryan Reynolds — pushed back filming. Luckily John Wick director David Leitch signed on to direct Deadpool 2.
Ryan Reynolds blocking a stunt on Vancouver’s Georgia Viaduct for Deadpool.
Tim Miller on Georgia Viaduct in 2014.
Deadpool is the character Reynolds played in Wolverine, an X-Men Origins movie starring Hugh Jackman, but that film wasn’t true to darkly comic former special forces soldier-turned-mercenary. In Marvel comic-book lore, Wade Wilson is a wise-cracking gun-for-hire with cancer who partakes in military experiments as part of the Weapon X plan to cure himself by replicating Wolverine’s mutant ability to heal quickly. The experiment succeeds except Wilson ends up terribly scarred.
No longer vulnerable because of his new healing abilities, he hunts the man who wrecked his life — the villain Ajax (Ed Skrein) — and takes out any bad guys who get in his way with help from his sidekick, pal and arms dealer Weasel (T.J.Miller), Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianne Hildebrand).
In Wolverine, Deadpool was surgically altered and mouthless. Not in Deadpool.
Zombieland screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick worked with Reynolds in 2010 to correct the mistake and restore the character to a motormouth 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 — with millions of views — which led Fox to greenlight the movie. Deadpool filmed in Vancouver in the Spring of 2015 and was released in theatres in February 2016.
