Insightful DEADPOOL Trailer Breakdown From Director Tim Miller And Producer Simon Kinberg
Hot on the heels of the release of two new theatrical trailers, Deadpool director Tim Miller and producer Simon Kinberg have offered some new and intriguing details about the teaser(s) and ultimately what's to come in the hard-R Marvel adaptation. Check it out!
Now that the new red- and green-band Deadpool trailers are finally upon us on this Christmas day, director Tim Miller and Producer Simon Kinberg have now provided Empire with a much useful breakdown of just about every key frame. Revealing new details on the newly-showcased powers of Angel Dust (Gina Carano) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), as well as the inclusion of Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and the “really strong love story” between Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) and Vanessa/Copycat (Morena Baccarin), among other things. Check it out below!
About the scene in which Deadpool gets lonely in the taxi cab, Tim Miller says, “He’s like a kid with ADD who’s had too much sugar and he can’t sit still - he’s constantly fidgeting and looking to entertain himself. I’m sure there’s a word for it that therapists have for those kids who need constant input! But he’s definitely that guy. He needs to talk. He’s a fidget.” The director also reassured that the movie takes during the current holiday season. “I guess I would say - without ruining anything - it’s Christmas for his character. But his character isn’t necessarily connected to all of the reality of our world. But we did plan the film to be a heartwarming holiday classic - we had to work Christmas in there!”
“We’ll keep some of it a secret, but it is a facility: it’s a workshop where Wade has willingly come to try to fix his life but it gets a lot more broken,” said Simon Kinberg. “And it’s sort of a big turning point in the movie for his character.” About the character who recruits Wade Wilson, Tim Miller says he is “the guy that sort of puts the bait out there for Wade at his most desperate time, so, you know, whether he’s a mutant or not, we don’t really say, but he certainly is very, very good at convincing people to do things that they shouldn’t do when they’re vulnerable.”
About the “amazing” MMA fighter-turned-actress Gina Carano, and her Angel Dust character, director Tim Miller says, “Her powers in the comics are - she’s a little like the Hulk, in that the angrier she gets, her adrenaline sort of activates this super strength.” He continued, “So the angrier she gets, the harder she fights and stronger she is, so that’s her power in the comics and we try to play that up a little bit in the fight sequences. But Gina herself, she was amazing: in hindsight, I can’t even imagine considering an actress who didn’t have the kind of history that Gina did, because just on our budget level and the way we wanted to do these fights to keep them grounded there was no way that a stunt person could step in and do what she did, which was just incredibly physical. She would do these scenes with the stunt guy and then we’d take him out and she’d do them by herself so we’d have these clean actions and it was amazing. She’s got photographic reflexes and every [frick]ing take she was going all out. It was great.”
Speaking about Negasonic Teenage Warhead, whose mutant abilities we finally caught a glimpse of in the Deadpool trailer, Tim Miller says, “I think Deadpool wishes she’d keep her mouth shut more than she does in the film! Because she’s quite snarky. But, you know, her whole attitude is this disaffected teen who thinks Deadpool’s just a douchebag. And so that’s her whole attitude. She’s really not that silent in the film or at least she’s silently surly because she just can’t be bothered to engage with this asshole. That’s the basics of her personality: silently shaming, judgmental personality.” As for her powers: “We chose her because we wanted a trainee for Colossus in the film and the writers and I just fell in love with her name. It’s just so out there and so Deadpool and it was Grant Morrison who named her, so we knew we had to get her in there. And then we thought, well, we’re going to need to make her powers fit with who she feels like she is in the movie and so to me it’s just like other characters in the Marvel universe, like Nitro, for instance, whose power is to just explode parts of their body. But we did try to do it so that it wasn’t just a simple, ‘oh, I can explode’, she can transfer the force of the explosion down so she can move upwards - she can put it into a punch if she wanted to. So it was really just her fist exploding as she hit somebody. We tried to mix it up, even though we didn’t use that particular thing in the movie, but it was the idea. Actually, we did use it in the movie, it’s just not in the movie now!”
About Colossus, who it was recently revealed to be portrayed by Stefan Kapicic, Tim Miller teased his role in the action which the trailer also got a glimpsed. “We got a big old fight with him in the third act which is great,” he said. “He's always been one of my favorite characters just because he’s just so visually impressive and you know, when you’re a comic book reader, the writing’s important, but also you want these incredible looking characters and action and I always loved him from my early days collecting comics. But to me he was always this giant behemoth, and to do it as sort of a normal-size guy didn't seem to fit the character, and more importantly I think we got a lot of value out of him being larger than life and, you know, this fantastic physical presence in - and I mean fantastic like otherworldly - this otherwise very grounded film. And he really connects us to the X-Men universe too which is a good thing in small doses.”
About Vanessa aka Copycat, Wade Wilson’s main squeeze before (and after?) he becomes Deadpool, Tim Miller asked, “Is there such a thing as a conventional relationship, because I think every love is different!” He added, “When we cast her in her role in the film, again we stayed true to her origin in the comic, but I really wanted somebody who could keep up with Wade, because there really has to be a reason for these people to fall in love. And he’s so unique a character that she had to be unique too. Personally, I never understood the man who wants to find the wife who’s just going to do what he says and adore him and things like that and she was never meant to be the damsel in distress sort of relationship, it was always meant to be a woman that could keep up with him. Or, in many ways I think you’ll see in the movie, she’s a lot stronger than he is and that was always the goal. I love super-strong female characters. And incidentally, as we’re screening the film, the women love it. The love story is really strong. Real strong.”
For the full breakdown of the Deadpool trailer(s) which touches on T.J. Miller’s improvisations and the gory visual effects as well as the Merc With A Mouth breaking the fourth wall, going toe-to-toe with X23 in future movies, and having great power with no responsibility, head over to Empire.
Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life. Directed by Tim Miller, while starring Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa Carlysle), T.J. Miller (Weasel), with Ed Skrein, and Brianna Hildebrand (Ellie Phimister), the much-hyped Deadpool is scheduled to open in theaters on February 12, 2016.