Everything You Need To Know About Deadpool

Previously, On Screen…

Deadpool has popped up in small screen animation from time to time, over the years. He has made appearances in the X-Men animated series, Marvel Anime: X-Men, Ultimate Spider-Man and Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. He also featured in the animated movie, Hulk Vs Wolverine, and development of a Deadpool solo film reportedly began with Marvel Entertainment in 2000.

By 2004, the project had landed at New Line Cinema, and Ryan Reynolds was associated with the role, but it was quickly put into turnaround. 20th Century Fox took it under consideration, but the character, with Reynolds in the role, was segued into its first foray onto the silver screen, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the character was butchered – figuratively and literally. He is first introduced as Wade Wilson, played as a wisecracking, highly skilled mercenary by Ryan Reynolds. We find that Wilson is a member of Team X, and Logan (AKA Wolverine) is invited to join the group. Tensions develop, however, and Logan soon finds himself at odds with the group – and facing down a newly activated, mutated Wilson, who is now “Weapon XI,” or Deadpool.

The thing is, the Deadpool seen at the climax of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has his mouth sewn shut. The comic book character known as The Merc With A Mouth literally cannot speak – which is, you know, kind of his thing. Needless to say, the treatment of Deadpool in the film was not well received by fans, or by audiences in general – and the entire project received a mixed reception. It re-ignited interest in the character, though, which Ryan Reynolds continued to build upon, until he could deliver to us the most authentic Deadpool possible.