IGN got some face time with Ryan Reynolds on the Deadpool movie after the success of the Wolverine Origin film. Ryan speculates there will be no tie in to Wolverine.
While the story is not fleshed out at all, Ryan also voiced his opinion again as he had prior to taking on the role that he wants to play a more authentic Deadpool in that the character breaks the fourth wall (aware of audience), also regarded as being 'self-aware'.
Deadpool is an unusual character in the Marvel universe. He is not a bad guy, yet in the Wolverine film, the writers abandoned the real essence of Deadpool and used him as a villain for Wolverine to defeat. This is a nightmare to any long time reader of Deadpool stories. Deadpool is the class clown of Marvel characters and to see him vilified is an insult to the movie goers that attended Wolverine as fans of Marvel comics. For instance, at the end of Wolverine, the Deadpool everyone was exposed to (whom many hope was not in fact Deadpool but a clone of sorts) had many mutant powers which should have made him an overwhelming adversary to Wolverine, but more importantly nothing like the Deadpool his character is in the years old storyline. Next Deadpool generated swords from his arms rather than use his swords which are his trademark weapon. What a ridiculous move by the producers of the film. This was the major insult to Marvel fans. This early in the process you can see Ryan wants the Deadpool we want as he insists even he didn't portray the real Deadpool in Wolverine ...."And I wasn't even the Deadpool that they knew."
Ryan agreed that he doesn't have the strong enough name in acting to insist to the producers they make Deadpool right, but he is the 'right' actor to play Deadpool if you want the authentic version. In his own words: "Yeah, all those things. And I have ideas for it that I think are right in tune with the tone of that character. I'm dying to see them on film. Literally, dying. So many of the outlets that follow this character are curious what the elements will be, afraid that you won't be disfigured, that you won't wear the mask, and I laugh because there's no way to do this without having the scarring, having the mask, having it all. And it can be done. It's a no-brainer in that sense. You gotta have the character of Deadpool. You don't want to just invent something new and call it Deadpool."
Ryan gets it, but do the producers? Will we get a lame Deadpool that Hollywood insists we should accept or will there be a story with substance and character with personality?
Asked when he felt Marvel was going into production for Deadpool, Ryan gave a Deadpool answer,"I have two dramas – one in the summer, one in the fall – and then, hopefully, after that, we'll get to tackle this crimson f--ker."
Ryan readily offers he is training physically to be a great Deadpool as well. His commitment is long term too, "Something like Deadpool, that could be three films, maybe eight or ten years. "
Ultimately Ryan Reynolds wants Deadpool fans to have faith in him in his effort to bring the real Deadpool to the big screen in his own film, "If they can imagine if one of them were given the opportunity to do a Deadpool movie, just imagine that's what's happening. Just to have faith in that. And to have faith in the studio. It's hard for fans to do that, but I feel like they really want to do an authentic Deadpool movie….He's like Jason Bourne meets Phantom of the Opera by way of Caddyshack. And that, right there, is a wholly originally character, and that's what excites the dark overlords who fund this film. And me."
-Lars Hindsley
