In news that should shock pretty much no one given the current state of superhero studio films, a Deadpool sequel is already in the works, with Fox reportedly giving the Merc With a Mouth’s follow-up the green light before his first solo outing even hits theaters. The Hollywood Reporter claims that Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are already working on the script for Deadpool 2.
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Reese, Wernick and Miller, as well as star Ryan Reynolds, have fought an uphill battle within the studio system to get the movie made, forging themselves into a compact unit.
“In the future, if we’re doing a bunch more Deadpool movies, we’re really going to explore the X-Men a lot”, Reynolds said in a recent interview. The limited budget is striking, as evidenced by the film’s bevy of dialogue scenes in grimy interiors, but with this kind of success on tap Fox will no doubt be expanding the scope of the sequel.
In case you hadn’t noticed, Deadpool is getting quite a bit of buzz.
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Fox’s projections are about $10 million lower, but analysts see Marvel’s first hard-R-rated superhero movie cruising past “Kung Fu Panda 3” and the two other films opening wide this weekend, “Zoolander 2” and “How to Be Single”. Last year, Fox drew a solid percentage of females to the male-skewing “Kingsman: The Secret Service”, enabling it to open a strong second to “Fifty Shades of Grey” on this mid-February weekend.
