Speaking with Geoff Boucher of the
Los Angeles Times, the star of Martin Campbell's
Green Lantern & the promising adaption of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds talks a bit about how different the character and the film would be, compared to recent superhero flicks.
“It goes in such a different direction than a superhero movie usually goes. It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like ‘Barfly‘ if it were a superhero movie. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person. I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that.”
“With Deadpool, it’s a lot like going to prison for the first day,” Reynolds said.
“You got to walk up and hit the biggest guy you see to establish a bit of cred. With Deadpool, early on you have to establish that moral flexibility. There’s a gamble to it — you’re going to lose a few people right at the beginning but you take the gamble and know that eventually you’re going to win them back. You won’t lose the hard-core fans of the character, they already know who he is. We have to play to a broader audience than that. As an actor you have to be willing to do something like … back in Vancouver we used to call it a [nasty] burger. ’You gotta eat the [nasty] burger to get to the cookies.’ And yes, I want to write a cookbook about that…”
“The comics are very inconsistent in the writing,” Reynolds said.
“All the different writers, different voices, but at the core of the character his heart is really interesting. He’s the funniest guy you’ll ever meet, too, and for me that’s exciting but it’s not as hard as capturing that moral flexibility, which is so important. He hasn’t really experienced the full spectrum of human emotion the way most people do.”
DCMF - For once, I can finally say I'm really interesting in seeing this on the big-screen simply because of how different & unique it could be. And with a script by the
Zombieland screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and Robert Rodriguez possibly directing, it has the potential to be something great. What do you think?