Insightful DEADPOOL Trailer Breakdown From Director Tim Miller And Producer Simon Kinberg

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!

By DCMarvelFreshman - Dec 25, 2015 02:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Deadpool
Source: Empire
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!



“I always like the way the writers described the city in the script which was ‘a pre-post-apocalyptic Detroit’,” said Tim Miller of the above frame showing the cityscape. “And that's about as specific as they got. And I liked that. You know, it doesn't say that it's anywhere specific. I think there are some certain geographical clues in our story in that everybody knows that the X-Men live in upstate New York-ish and so we can’t be too far away. But the idea was that it should look like a shitty place because you want to set Deadpool and his world apart as something different: grittier, nastier, you know, more like Daredevil where it's down in the streets where he’s dealing with small-time shit that the X-Men and their shiny hi-tech world don’t deal with.”


 
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!”
 




“Those are his Desert Eagles,” said Tim Miller of Deadpool’s weapons of choice as pictured above. “The classics. If you haven’t ever held one of those things, they weigh about 50lbs each. They’re huge, heavy pistols that can basically blow your head apart. So they’re pretty powerful!”
 




“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.”
 



As for the character Blind Al, who’s played by Leslie Uggams in Deadpool, Tim Miller said, “She plays a role similar that she does in the comics, although in the comics it has some darker aspects as to why she’s with Deadpool that we don't really explore, but I think she’s great. And it’s funny, because we filmed all the stuff in the apartment - that was the first stuff we filmed, it was the beginning of our shoot - and for the first time, I mean, for me, even living with the script for so long, I really just felt this love for Wade as the character because I could see their interaction and ‘I like ya’. Ryan’s likeable in and of itself, he can be doing horrible things to children and you would still like the guy, because he’s just that nice. But, in this case, Deadpool does some things that are hard to stomach and not normal things that heroes would do, but to see their relationship was a really, really beautiful thing. And I think where it falls in the movie really makes us root for him even more because he's going through this horrible thing but he still has very human scenes with [Al]. And Leslie’s just [frick]ing amazing. She would do anything, I mean, I would go, ‘ok, Leslie, say ‘sounds like you’ve got a dick in your mouth’, and she’d go, ‘sounds like you’ve got a dick in your mouth’! There was no restraint. She would just do whatever was needed to get a great shot and a great scene. I love her, one of my favorites.”
 



Regarding Deadpool’s Christmas hit list, as seen in the shots above, producer Simon Kinberg said that “It’s a part of the plot, I don’t think we should ruin it, but there’s so many people that are on his naughty list that he is hunting down for reasons we can keep mysterious and then you can discover when you watch the movie.” He added, “But yeah, it’s the equivalent of a serial killer or FBI agent’s wall of targets and we watch him go after them.”


 
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.
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CapedBaldy
CapedBaldy - 12/25/2015, 2:43 PM





Plenty here if anyone is interested.

https://storify.com/boring_as_heck/jared-leto-method-actor
Robby
Robby - 12/25/2015, 2:46 PM
^ sounds too good to be true
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 12/25/2015, 2:49 PM
@XxLIONHEARTxX

LOL! IVAN OOZE!!!!XD
Scorpo
Scorpo - 12/25/2015, 2:50 PM
Yeah well I now know this movie will be better than Superman 4, but they need to convince me that it will beat the masterpiece know only as:
Scorpo
Scorpo - 12/25/2015, 2:57 PM
I have been watching all of the MCU movies over the past 2 days, and I gotta say, Thor is MUCH better than I remember, especially when Thor, Sif, and the Warriors 3 go to Jotunheim and just start kicking ass. I especially love the scene where a frost giant just yells at Thor like "RAHGHGH" and Thor just goes "RAGHGH!"
Kenneth Branagh made one of the best MCU movies to date.
CapedBaldy
CapedBaldy - 12/25/2015, 3:01 PM
@JoeMomma29
@Brainiac13
@DrKinsolving
@EricBorder

Post above
LordHarryLatts
LordHarryLatts - 12/25/2015, 3:14 PM
The Joker would watch the Golden Girls before he'd watch Family Guy.
huckfinnisher
huckfinnisher - 12/25/2015, 3:19 PM
@Scorpo, I never understood the gate for the Thor movie. A little slow at some parts but it's a cracking film.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 12/25/2015, 3:35 PM
@Scorpo

Yea, Branagh did really good with the first Thor movie.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 12/25/2015, 3:36 PM
@mutantsoldier

Because of the cast.
DeusExSponge
DeusExSponge - 12/25/2015, 3:47 PM
X GON' GIVE IT TO YA!
stevengil
stevengil - 12/25/2015, 4:13 PM
DAT ASS!
CapedBaldy
CapedBaldy - 12/25/2015, 4:23 PM
@ManCalledSting

Lol,sorry.In my defense,i forgot to include a bunch of others
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 12/25/2015, 4:25 PM
So, here's the thing. One of my major gripes with Singer is that he takes characters from the comics, swaps around their powers, uses them a plot points, and generally plays really loose with the canon. And here, Miller has done exactly the same thing with Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Originally that was going to be Cannonball, and here they've clearly just given her Cannonball's powers.

I'm registering this as a complaint. But I also want it noted for the record that I couldn't care less about any of Grant Morrison's X-Men characters. His run just did nothing for me.

As for the rest of the comments, I'm not really blown away by anything. I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't go full Joe Kelly psycho-kidnapper with Blind Al, but I expected it. I'm seeing more and more indications that there's a lot of "Fox gonna Fox" in this movie that isn't evidenced by the trailers. But, I'm still excited about this movie's potential. Miller doesn't give me the kind of "holy shit, he gets it" feeling that I get when I listen to the Russos. Or even Whedon. But he still seems a damn sight more in tune than Singer or Donner.
CoherentInsanity
CoherentInsanity - 12/25/2015, 4:29 PM
I know Deadpool's not the warm and fuzzy kind of hero, but doesn't he have this thing about children being hurt? As in, it pisses him off?

But that example may just be a "he's so likeable that he could literally be Hitler and you wouldn't care" sort of statement and not any indication of movie DP being a dick to children. So maybe I'm just getting worried over nothing? I dunno, still off putting.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 12/25/2015, 4:34 PM
I haven't really followed Deadpool after Cable & Deadpool was canceled, but I will always have a soft spot for the Kelly version where he was literally a terrifying psychopath with basically zero moral compass.



I enjoyed a lot of the later stuff, where he was more of a meme-machine and quirky and even cartoonish. But there's something about a guy that locks an old blind woman in a room full of broken glass to keep her captive until (and if) he gets back.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 12/25/2015, 4:36 PM


Yowzers. That's not funny.
Darktower
Darktower - 12/25/2015, 4:52 PM
CoherentInsanity
CoherentInsanity - 12/25/2015, 5:00 PM
@SpockOClock Wow, okay, I see no appeal in that at all. I'm all for him doing absolutely despicable things to 'bad guys', but if there's zero reason for him to perceive someone as an enemy, then he doesn't need to be doing that sort of shit.

I feel like Miller's going to have to ride a very fine line between portrayals of Deadpool, without going too far into "edgelord psychopath, wow he's pure evil" OR "Know Your Meme.com: The Character" territory for Deadpool to be something the audience can connect with, at even the tiniest level.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 12/25/2015, 5:31 PM
My favorite part of the Deadpool tailer was when they were on the highway fighting.

Seriously the fact they showed off so much of the highway scene in the trailer is making me lose confidence in this film. I mean could they show up more then just the highway scene which we already saw from the leaked test pitch?
exies7
exies7 - 12/25/2015, 7:05 PM
There's no reason for deadpool to retain traits from certain and specific runs. Deadpool has been many things, it's like randomly picking one and demanding that's what they adapt.

I've read everything Deadpool. I love the character and I'm fine with them taking his most prominent personality traits and adapting him in that way. Deadpool still goes nuts in the comics but it's clear the writers want you to think of him as a hero and that wasn't present in his earlier runs. When he was just a merc, etc.

He's a mainstream character now.

The character you see in the trailer is deadpool but hey that's just one hyper fan's opinion.
exies7
exies7 - 12/25/2015, 7:12 PM
@coherent insanity

There's no fine line. The character of deadpool, while pretty much just a merc who likes money, has evolved. He used to be just another generic mercenary, then he was a psychopath, then he was a loveable psychopath, then he started becoming a hero.

What you see in the trailer is extremely close to what you'll read in the comics. For the past several years.
superherodevourer
superherodevourer - 12/25/2015, 7:17 PM
I know tim miller gon nail the deadpool character so hard that fox will just have to approve a bigger budget sequel guest starring cable
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