While you may have seen Ryan Reynolds play Deadpool on the big screen before, one of the things repeatedly made clear at the set visit for the upcoming 20th Century Fox film is that you haven't seen Reynolds play this Deadpool.
Without a doubt, that is the biggest takeaway message we get wandering around the recycling yard the film is using to stage a couple of fights on a drizzly spring day in Canada. Deadpool, as a character, is not going to have the same feel as the one in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This is the comic book Deadpool, the one who breaks the fourth wall, who offers up his thoughts on anything and everything. The merc with the mouth.
When you travel to a film set, you regularly hear how invested everyone is in the project, how the team that has been pulled together is the best one for the movie, and how everyone really cares about the film. With Deadpool, one truly believes them. As Ed Skrein, who plays Ajax, tells us during our sit down, "This is not your average comic book project. We are not regurgitating anything that has been done before."
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Without a doubt, that is the biggest takeaway message we get wandering around the recycling yard the film is using to stage a couple of fights on a drizzly spring day in Canada. Deadpool, as a character, is not going to have the same feel as the one in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This is the comic book Deadpool, the one who breaks the fourth wall, who offers up his thoughts on anything and everything. The merc with the mouth.
When you travel to a film set, you regularly hear how invested everyone is in the project, how the team that has been pulled together is the best one for the movie, and how everyone really cares about the film. With Deadpool, one truly believes them. As Ed Skrein, who plays Ajax, tells us during our sit down, "This is not your average comic book project. We are not regurgitating anything that has been done before."
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