The Merc with a Mouth with a Movie

It didn't take long for my prayers to be answered. No, I'm not talking about good grades on all my finals. I'm talking about the fact that a Deadpool spin-off of this years Wolverine is in the making.

Reynolds is attached to reprise the character for what for now is simply being called "Deadpool." Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel Studios would act as producers.

The movie will follow the same aspect that the recent Wolverine followed. This meaning that the movie will not start up from the easter egg at the end of X-men Origins: Wolverine. It will rewind and then play out the roots of Deadpool. How Wade Wilson becomes him, much like how the latest X-men installment was about how Logan becomes Wolverine.

Deadpool is the character best described as being the "merc with the mouth." A mercenary that is best known for his black comedy and wisecracks, this can be seen in the Wolverine movie, where Reynolds pulls this off beautifully with no crack of a smile on his face when delivering the lines. With his ability to break the fourth wall (there are a few ways to do this..talking directly to audience, making it obvious that he is *and he knows* that he is in a movie, etc...) I think this movie could and should be rather interesting to watch, provided they do it right.

It isn't known yet just how far the movie is going to go. Will it end with him becoming Deadpool? Will he become Deadpool at some point in the middle and don the trademark Deadpool mask? Will they show him as a solo mercenary? Part of a team? Both? Will it have him become Weapon XI like at the end of Wolverine? Will it stay true to the way it all plays out in the comics?

The answers to those questions are no where near being able to be answered, as the movie is only now 'in the works.' If they make him more like the way he was in the beginning of Wolverine and less like the way he is in the end, I can see this movie being bigger than all the others in the X-men franchise.

The Adamantium Claws are Out

This past Friday the highly anticipated X-Men Origins: Wolverine hit theatres. Despite several bad/mediocre reviews the film was able to gross $34 million on Friday.

Exhibitor Relations was calling for Wolverine to close out the weekend with $85 million, a haul that would make it the fourth- or fifth-biggest summer starter this decade, depending on whether it tops its own relation, X2: X-Men United ($85.6 million in 2003).

I went to go see the movie Friday after my classes were through and I must say I thought the film was alright. First of all, like any other comic to screen or book to screen movie I didn't go in expecting it to be 100% accurate to the storyline in the comics. If one goes in with the mindset it should be this way they are always going to be disappointed. There are very few movies that are able to capture a comic/graphic novel story in its entirety.

That being said I thought that some of the changes worked and some were just randomly put in there. For those of you who don't know, and have seen the movie, Logan and Victor are not actually brothers in the comics. However, for the movie it was something that worked and if you think about it would actually make some sense. The pairing of Kayla Silverfox and Emma Frost as sisters, however, gave me a WTF moment and I'm still trying to figure out why they decided to make them siblings, when there's no significance there whatsoever.

The movie was, of course, about Logan Howlett a.k.a Wolverine, but it was the lesser characters that made me actually somewhat enjoy this movie. The two that really stood out to me, despite barely being in the film were the characters of Wade Wilson (DeadPool) and Remy LeBeau (Gambit).

DeadPool and Gambit are two characters in the X-verse that fans have been waiting to see in an X-men film for sometime (especially Gambit) and I believe that these two were done fairly well.











Wade Wilson (DeadPool) was portrayed by Ryan Reynolds who did a fantastic job portraying 'the Merc with the Mouth.' Ryan, who has played the cocky, smart -ass on several occasions, was the perfect pick to play the anti-hero and I only wish he was in the movie just a tad more. The only thing I did not like was what they did with the character at the end of the film, though it does set up the possibility of a DeadPool movie, which if done right could be very good.

Taylor Kitsch, of Friday Night Lights, was the man portraying Remy LeBeau (Gambit) I thought his performance, which came later in the film, was alright, considering the fact I wasn't quite sure how he was going to do. In the scene where Logan and Remy first meet Taylor pretty much steals the scene away from Hugh Jackman...even the purple shirt he wears is great.

The other side characters I thought stole the show were Liev Schreiber's Victor Creed (though his is more of a secondary main character, same with Danny Huston's Stryker) and  Dominic Monaghan's Bolt.

To me it wasn't Wolverine who made this movie, it was the characters that surrounded him.
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a rather funny review of the movie.