Deadpool‘s director Tim Miller sat down with Dredd‘s intrepid producer (and YouTube personality) Adi Shankar on Shankar’s movie-pitch interview show, The Bootleg Universe Pitch Show, to discuss Deadpool. The interview was just posted, but apparently took place sometime after the original script was leaked in 2010 but before the film was actually greenlit in 2014 with Miller attached to direct. I’m guessing this was around the time test footage hit the internet and people went insane.
The full interview may be spoilery if you managed to avoid both the leaked script, the test footage, and maybe Ryan Reynolds in general for the past year.
In it, Miller reveals his intentions for Deadpool, and how he feels he can work with the character, despite a lot of things that may otherwise tank a comic-book adaptation. (Like the character having no mouth yet constantly talking to the audience from beyond the fourth wall.)
“If Deadpool were a different type of character, it would be difficult to portray emotion. In Batman you have this taciturn stoic guy who speaks in monosyllabic short sentences, and it’s not that interesting. But Deadpool is running at the mouth the whole time; you almost don’t need to see his face because he’s telling you how he feels constantly.”
The film’s creative team was very conscious of the fact that Ryan Reynolds is handsome and they should probably not completely ignore that, which is why Deadpool is an origin story and features Wade Wilson pre-Freddy-Kruegering. Also, something something important character development, whatever. Ryan Reynolds’ face, everyone.
That time on Sesame Street when I charmed the children with my face popping out of an A-hole. #theletterA pic.twitter.com/Hq5aCJHCQY
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) February 27, 2015
They also realized with a hard R-rating they weren’t going to get the big budget of other Marvel movies. Miller’s background in visual effects didn’t deter him from that:
“I knew we would have to be clever about it. […] I’m not afraid to have visual effects play a major role and be up front and center. We would do a lot of visual effects to enable us to get that big budget feel, but still contain things. I always feel like it looks false, currently in a lot of superhero movies. You can see the wires and it kind of pulls me out of it. That’s not how they would move.”
Deadpool opens on Feb. 12, 2016. You can check out the whole interview here:
(Via ScreenRant)