The support was enthusiastic and overwhelming. ? ? But fanboys online went ape for what they saw. The footage might have prompted a collective “ meh,” killing the project entirely. Posted by Deadpool on Wednesday, July 30, 2014
#Deadpool full movie leaked movies update
Update : Ryan Reynolds is confirmed to be playing Deadpool Movie Releases : In early August 2014, the test footage leaked online.? ? Replacing Reynolds was considered, as was replacing Miller and/or the writers. ? ?Īnd then it happened. A PG-13 version of the script was on the table. Tom Rothman, then the studio’s co-chairman, was on the fence (the test footage ended with Deadpool saying, “Hi, Tom”) and, after he left in late 2012, sole chairman Jim Gianopulos took his spot on the same fence. Maybe once they saw the reel, Fox execs would approve the go-ahead.īut even with the Deadpool test footage, Fox executives are said to have been scared. logo turning into a Spartan shield, which was an excellent way to prep the execs for what was to come, and it got the film approved. Zack Snyder made a test reel for 300 it began with the Warner Bros. Deadpool didn’t have any comps, which made execs extremely trigger-shy on a green light.ĭespite nerves, the studio gave Miller a low-six-figure budget to go and make a test reel, something that would show execs what a Deadpool movie would look like. Studios use “comps” to compare how similar movies did in the past to predict how future movies will perform, what kind of audiences they grabbed, how the marketing campaigns were run, etc. It was decidedly a one quadrant project.? ? But no matter how many discussions were held, there was no denying that Deadpool was an R-rated movie that was only going to appeal to young men. Many meetings were held at Fox, internally and with the creative team, which never changed - Reynolds, Miller, Reese and Wernick all remained with the project, a rarity in a business where turnover is high and execs chase the newest flavor. It also had nudity and decapitations and gore galore.? ? Plus, the script Fox had for Deadpool was filled with the kind of profanity that talent agents and sailors use all day but would never get a PG-13 rating - traditional for superhero movies from Marvel or DC.
And it was a disaster.? ? All of a sudden, Reynolds went from red hot to ice cold, and the Deadpool project (yet another superhero movie starting the guy who just flopped in one?) was tainted. Two months after locking down the creative team of Miller, Wernick and Reese, in June of 2011, Reynolds’ Green Lantern opened. Instead of a yes man, Fox decided to hire a director that wasn’t afraid to go his own way.īut a pest of a filmmaker was the least of Fox’s problems, as far as Deadpool was concerned.
It was epic and cinematic, everything they want their comic book movies to be.? ?īecause of Miller’s success making short films and trailers, insiders say he wasn’t concerned with being politic to get the Deadpool gig. It showed Lex Luthor and a band of super-villains killing Earth’s mightiest heroes, and it melted fanboys’ eyeballs. And this one even had a best animated short Oscar.? ?One of the things that got Miller the gig was a six-minute trailer he made for the DC Universe Online video game. Studios sometime like first-time directors because they can be easy to control and tend to do what they’re told. The Fox movie mangled the character completely: Here was a profane, wise-cracking antihero, nicknamed the Merc with a Mouth, and he was turned into not only a cheap villain but one whose mouth literally was sewn shut for the scenes in which he became Deadpool.? ? Wade Wilson, Deadpool’s alter ego, made his cinematic debut in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, played by Ryan Reynolds. It’s fitting, then, that to get the movie actually made, the creative team shattered the usual rules of studio moviemaking. ? ? The character quickly developed a small but loyal following for his irreverent, status quo-shattering sensibilities. Deadpool was created fairly recently - at least as far as comic book characters go - in 1990, by artist Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza.
To explain, one has to go back to the beginning. Neither 20th Century Fox nor Miller’s reps would comment, bu t I’ve spoken with many key inside sources involved with the project, and most fingers point to Hollywood’s newest man of the hour, who, amazingly, is making his feature directorial debut on a massive tentpole at 50 years of age.
0 kommentar(er)
