Here’s what we know about the next Deadpool movie: it’s definitely happening at some point and Bob’s Burgers writers Wendy Molyneaux and Lizzie Molyneaux-Loeglin are on the script. Oh, and Ryan Reynolds is back, of course. So not much; we don’t even know if it will pick up where Deadpool 2 left off or how the mouthy merc will debut in the MCU. And it turns out that Reynolds doesn’t know yet, either, or at least it doesn’t sound like it.
While doing press rounds for Free Guy (review coming later today), Reynolds told Comicbook.com there’s a case to be made for Deadpool to show up first in his own movie and for him to be part of another character’s film…
“I think both are pretty warranted,” Reynolds said. “I think you’re always gonna zig when everybody’s expecting you to zag when it comes to that character. As long as Disney’s open to doing some pretty wildly divergent or having some wildly divergent uses of Deadpool, then I dig it, man. I think it’s all great.”
Hmmm…maybe Deadpool isn’t that far along at all? Whenever it does finally happen, you can bet Reynolds put everything he had into it. Remember, it’s largely because of his constant pushing that Fox ever greenlit the franchise, and he may need to do a similar job on Disney.
“Deadpool, for me, is kind of like an anxiety-inducing tightrope walk,” Reynolds continued. “I always think when I’ve got Deadpool just right, I’m speaking from experience from Deadpool 1 & 2, that I need to make it 30 to 40% percent better than it already it is. Even if I’m at the moment where I’m like, ‘This is perfect, this moment!’ Then, I stop, and I go, ‘Okay, this has to be 30% better than it already is.’ It’s a stressful thing to get right, or at least right as far as I’m concerned. So, no, I never really thought about it, but I did love the idea of playing with Deadpool and Korg in some of the marketing materials, given the fact that Taika [Waititi] and I are in the movie. So, I kinda got to scratch the itch, inevitably anyway.”
You can see Reynolds next in Free Guy on August 13th. Here’s that Korg/Deadpool teamup he referred to.
