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.