‘Deadpool’ Has A Director – Visual Effects Specialist Tim Miller
By Germain Lussier/April 8, 2011 3:52 pm EST
Deadpool himself is one of the most popular secondary characters in the Marvel universe, both for his attitude and awesome costume, which was mostly jettisoned when he made his feature film debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It’ll be interesting to see how this films deal with the events in that movie as it touched upon the character’s origin as a sort of follow up to Wolverine referred to as Weapon XI.
The character of Deadpool is actually named Wade Wilson, a wise cracking, slightly evil and violent mercenary who is given the same healing powers as Wolverine but remains disfigured. With the film supposedly under the “Origins” banner, but not wanting to disfigure Ryan Reynolds too much, it’s safe to assume it’ll follow much of his early mercenary work, love interests and then his eventual descent into super anti-hero.
Does the hiring of a first time director seem suspect to you? What are your expectations of this project in regards to it being in the same universe as X-Men Origins: Wolverine?
Source: Deadline
