According to Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool 2 is actually a film about family. And in its original form, it was going to be even more about family than you might think. According to Entertainment Weekly, Reynolds and Deadpool co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick originally had Wade Wilson be a father in the sequel. If you’re thinking Logan, you should probably stop. Wolverine technically isn’t a father in that movie, even if the little girl does call him daddy at the end. There wouldn’t have been any confusion with Deadpool, though — if they didn’t ditch it.
Calling Deadpool daddy apparently didn’t last long in the script writing process according to Reynolds:
“The genesis of it was “What if Deadpool had a child?” Like, what if we started five years later and what would that be like? By page 1.5, it was totally untenable,” says Reynolds. “We were just like, ‘Nope. Nope. No, no, no. This is never, ever going to work.’ We went back to the drawing board and kind of reworked it in a way about wanting to have a child, which is something that so many people I know experience on a daily basis — wanting to have a child but can’t.”
There really is no shortage of people out there struggling to have a kid. So many factors come into play and it is interesting that a movie like Deadpool 2 will try to tackle that. But like it says in the beginning, Reynolds has his way of looking at each movie:
“The first movie is a love story masquerading as a comic-book movie, and this one is kind of a family film masquerading as a comic-book film again.”
So this means that Deadpool 3 will be a film about growing old and mortality disguised as a superhero story starring an immortal psychopath, leaving X-Force to be about proper budgeting for retirement clouded by a plot about world domination cococted by Stryfe, right? We can only hope for that last bit. Start feeding audiences proper life tips in these movies and we might just save society.
(Via Entertainment Weekly)