Now I know I used to read a lot of comic books back in my early years. Yes, I had a comic book collection of some 4,000 comics – I was a bit of a geek. So I am looking forward to a few aspects of the up-coming Wolverine movie that many will not be.
One of the things that I hope Marvel gets right is Deadpool. Who is he you might ask? Why the merc with a mouth. He is, in my opinion, one of the best characters ever to be created in the Marvel and DC universes.
Deadpool is not a mutant. He is not ancient, like Wolverine and Sabertooth. He is insane and is so gregarious as to have his speech considered a leathal weapon in some places. The man does not shut-up. And he is funny as hell. Imagine a comedian that wields a katana like a samurai, a M-16 like Rambo, a pulse rifle like Han Solo, and is as acrobatic as almost Spiderman – all about at the same time. Now make that guy a lunatic with a soft spot in his heart, and a willingness to do anything for the highest bidder. That’s Deadpool.
As you might imagine, the character has a lot of potential. I mean a character that will switch sides in the middle of a fight because he got a better offer, all the while cracking some of the best dark comedy jokes you might imagine, can do a lot for a film.
If the character is done right.
Ryan Reynolds will be playing this character. Obviously in his Thom Cruze incarnation if they use Reynold’s face (Deadpool is horrendously scarred from head to foot – which never heals though most any injury will). So I think that places him in solid footing to be a good part of the movie. Plus Reynold’s is Canadian, and Deadpool is a result of the Weapon X program that gave Wolverine his adamantium skeleton.
But the potential problems for this character, and the movie are numerous. The writing has to be spot on. Really bad jokes will kill his constant jabbering’s humor. He needs really cool action scenes to show off his fighting skill – and disregard for any injury (he has survived being shot in the head multiple times at the same time, disemboweled, torn limb from limb, crushed, irradiated, and a few other fun normally deadly acts).
Likely he will not get much screen time. Which is a shame. Also it’s likely that his whole history will be rewritten, just as many of the traditional and long-running characters of Marvel Universe are being re-done for this prequel of Wolverine.
I mean, how can you have a movie about Wolverine and not have his time in WWII and Captain America covered? And what does a young Cyclops or Storm have to do with anything? Plus Gambit??
So for the comic book geeks out there, I too hope that this movie gets done right. That they include the fact that Wolverine gets attacked by Sabertooth on his birthday every year for over a century, no matter where he is or what is going on. I hope that they delve into his involvement in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam. I hope they discuss the fact he has worked as an operative for the U.S. for over a century – at times alongside Sabertooth (when he wants to be a good guy – or more to the point hates the other guys much more).
But back to Deadpool. If this gets done right, expect him to get his own movie. And that could really be something different. But we will soon see exactly what turns out right and wrong in the movie. [If you didn’t see the leaked version already, as I did not]
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