Ryan Reynolds On Deadpool & Green Lantern

Ryan Reynolds talked about the long stalled comic book film Deadpool, a role that he first played in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". The stand alone film boasts a script from "Zombieland" scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. He made the commrnts during a recent  Empire podcast:

"I love Deadpool and there is a script that’s in development. But it’s so, so far into the R-rated zone… it’s a nearly NC-17 world and I just don’t know if the studio would ever risk their reputation doing it.

We’ve been developing it and we would never wanna do it unless you could it that R-rated way, so the script has a similar tone [to Zombieland], almost. Reese and Wernick wrote it and they developed it as well and, you know, it’s sitting there.

You could do it for a pittance compared to the modern sort of epic scale superhero movies, but it’s about a guy who knows he’s in a movie and knows he’s in a comic book who is deeply mentally disturbed and hyper violent. And that’s tough to get by a studio."

Reynolds adds that this version of Deadpool would not fit within the Deadpool we saw in the last Wolverine pic

That character would really sully that whole world. The script is one rewrite away from Deadpool jumping across the desk at the studio executive and attacking him. But I’ve always wanted to do the movie if only because Deadpool would get to do his own movie trailer.

So that’s a thing that we were dying to do and we would love to be a part of that. I don’t know how it would fit though, no. In the current iteration of the script, it doesn’t address Wolverine – though it does address Deadpool’s appearance in Wolverine. Deadpool was not happy with Deadpool in Wolverine. He has a sort of a WTF!? moment with that."

He was then asked whether he would return as the ring wearing  Hal Jordan for a Green Lantern 2  or the Justice League movie.. Reynolds did not seem particularly thrilled with the notion:

"I don’t know. If you’re gonna do comic book movies in that vein, you really have to get them right. I believe that Joss Whedon is the guy that just nails it and Christopher Nolan obviously nails it. So if they were gonna do it like that, it would be an interesting thing to do. It’s just that… working on Green Lantern, I saw how difficult it is make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don’t really know exactly where you’re going with it or you don’t really know how to access that world properly – that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with. So at this point I have very little interest in joining that kind of world. But, you know, a great script and a good director can always turn that around."