Deadpool Gets New Life

More details are surfacing on the Marvel Deadpool movie. Lauren Shuler Donner who will be handling Wolverine 2 is confirming that Deadpool will be a reboot and we can all forget the abomination of what the studio did the character in the Wolverine Orgin's flick.

Before we get to her quote, let me say this. And this is more than a hint to the studios - If you just stick to every character as they were originally designed, you won't have to ask audiences to forgive you for screwing up characters in the first place. Don't pick and choose either. You took Gambit in the Wolverine movie and did him justice but then adulterated a popular character like Deadpool with lasers for eyes and swords coming out of his hands? The character of Deadpool would never give up his kitana's. In addition he is known by his tagline, "The Merc with a Mouth" so you sew it shut? Who was the idiot at the helm that made these decisions? You had to know this would upset the readership and thus make the Wolverine movie subject to bad word-of-mouth.

You won't need reboots if you do things faithfully in the first place.

So will Ms Donner get it right this time? Her is what she had to say: "I want to ignore the version of Deadpool that we saw in Wolverine and just start over again. Reboot it. Because this guy talks, obviously, and to muzzle him would be insane... We're right in the thick of talking to writers right now, and hopefully by November we'll have decided who's going to do it. We need someone really imaginative because we want to do some really innovative, ambitious stuff. Ryan's mentioned this in an interview already but there are parts where he's going to break the fourth wall and talk directly to the audience in the cinema. We have to work out how to do that. I don't know that Fox will agree with all our decisions, but we'll see!"

Now I'd like to believe Donner is telling us straight, but seriously... we were fed quotes by Ryan Reynolds that he loved the character so much and only wanted to play him and would play him faithfully the first go around only to get a Deadpool that hardly resembled what so many readers have come to know and love.

Early word for this 2011 film release is that Cable and Domino will make entrances.

If the studio is done screwing around with Marvel's characters we may actually get the same Deadpool readers know and love.