Comments on: Reynolds Talks Good News about Deadpool Spinoff

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:30:04 +0000

I figured out how in the spinoff how Deadpool can break the Fourth Wall and get away with it fair and square. It’s been staring at us in the face all this time.

I forgot ONE possibility. The more I thought about it, the more I think it’s possible.

Consider: mutant powers “whizzing” past an audience; exploding splinters of wood and glass; a sword in YOUR FACE!

How to break the fourth wall? You “break the THIRD WALL”.

Rejoice! Celebration!

By: ??????

?????? — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:12:32 +0000

it’s so simple, they cloned Wade because if you read the comics, Wade really can’t die a natural death like Logan and Creed (that’s the reason they were locked-up because shooting them doesn’t really kill them)

Wade can’t be poisoned and can survive even hundreds of years without eating or drinking water (as seen on recent CABLE comics) Weapon XI is in fact a clone, they just removed the mouth and combined all the powers on to it. i bet everyone here is familiar with Spider-man’s Clone Saga right? Ben Reilly and Peter Parker? oh and yeah, Kaine? Kaine looks exactly like Peter without his mask but his built and abilities are different, so they’re not the same person, hence; anything is possible and this theory would best fit the Deadpool Spinoff.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:09:51 +0000

Fox owns the rights to the character.

And who says that if Fox has it that it wont be similar to the comic book? They can still capture the essence of the character the same way they did for the XMen films.

It doesn’t have to be in line with canon to still have the same feel and personality of the character.

By: Price

Price — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:03:11 +0000

My first question is whether this is going to be a Marvel movie or a Fox Film. If it is Fox we all know that it will be nothing like the comic, so every other discussion is moot as to staying canonical. If it is a Marvel movie I have higher hopes for the film.

As for the whole “How will they fix the Deadpool character” question. Who cares whether they fix it or not in the new movie so long as they stay true to the comic book Deadpool, Chalk it up as a re-boot for all I care, just get it right for once.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:31:07 +0000

You do realize that he is presented as a late 20s early 30s character in the comics… and dates Rogue.

Kitty Pryde was 14 when she was dating Colossus who was portrayed well in his 20s

Rogue also had a romance with Magneto in the Savage Land (and was played on in the Age of Apocalypse)

Dating ages mean nothing in the comics.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:39:22 +0000

True enough, but he did have the other powers and they still have to explain why he lost all the others except the healing factor. Why keep that one? Why not laser eyes? Also- are they going to have him still able to teleport? He can in the comics, but it’s not a power it’s a gadget… so what, they remove the teleportation ability only to give it back to him? If not then he keeps his healing factor AND teleportation- but not the laser eyes or sword hands?

And of course it’s speculation- everything everyone says on these posts is until we get a plot synopsis from the producers.

By: War-Journalist

War-Journalist — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:06:53 +0000

My vote for the whole transition from Weapon XI Deadpool to the real Deadpool is this:
They dig up WXI’s parts, & send him to the camp where all the failed experiments go. They remove all his extra pieces, causing extreme disfigurement. He escapes, and begins work as the assassin we know and love. It ties flawlessly with the comics.
The story continues, and he is hired as part of a strike team. When one of the members, Slayback, goes nuts Wade kills him, leaves, and lives happily ever after. He finds a girl & makes friends with Weasel, his gun supplier. Slayback returns, kidnaps them both, and Deadpool is forced to kill him… again.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:32:45 +0000

He didn’t gain the ability to take people’s powers, they genetically altered him to have other powers.

Your presumption about his storyline is just random speculation.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:54:48 +0000

There is that scene where Wade Wilson is on the slab, his mouth stitched up. So we know it is Wade at the end.

It seems reasonable that Stryker could also put the blame of the death of The General on Wilson/Deadpool (or another mutant?) but it got me thinking that nobody else was in that room with Stryker and the General except for…

I figure there can be a way for Deadpool/Wilson, no longer under Stryker’s control, to “burn off” the adumantium “eskirma” maybe melt them into swords or something.

Yes, there were some problems with Wolverine. You won’t catch me badmouthing it too much though. I don’t think it was a terrible film, but the excitement factor was underwhelming. If the film had been about Gambit’s escape, that might have been another deal.

As for Deadpool breaking the fourth wall, set in the X-Men universe, it’s not a jazzy idea. However, there are ways to get around it.

* Surv. cameras/a POV of another character.

* Character is telling a story to another character, thus events in adventure could be exaggerated.

* Or like in most of Daredevil (the studio cut) where events are taken from the characters POV/perception of events.

* A combination of all the above.

But that’s as far as I’d take it.

I suppose, as someone pointed out, that the “X-Men” films could be seen as only movies (as also suggested in X Men The Last Stand novelization) and “Deadpool” could have a different adventure not related to the X-films. His default “mask” in public would that be of “Ryan Reynolds”…

but that wouldn’t work. Fancy idea, but it would not work. Why?
Because that’s an X-Men reboot you are talking about. You’ll say I’m wrong. But if you think about it…if you have one character taken out of “the movie universe”, they all must follow.

So there isn’t really a break in the fourth wall, except in end credits. That’s it. But the “fans” will cry foul because of it

I don’t know—I think I’m starting to take Kevin Smith’s thoughts on these sorts of things. You know, how you can’t please the comics fans when it comes to films.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:52:46 +0000

Like most of the bad Marvel Films, they tried to pack as much in as possible and in the process screwed up the characters in the process.

Example: By the time the X-Men will form, Gambit will be about 36 whereas Rogue will be about 16.