I enjoyed the X-men movies. Granted X-Men 3: Last Stand was a disappointment but if I don’t think about it too hard I can still enjoy it. I even didn’t mind the Wolverine Origin movie. The best thing to come out of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the potential for a Deadpool spin off. Deadpool could be a very different and interesting comic book movie. Instead of being a superhero story, it could be a violent, over the top, R rated black comedy.
The scene with Ryan Reynolds in Wolverine captured a great snapshot of Wade Wilson, before he became the Infamous Merc with a Mouth. Then came what the interwebs has affectionately named Barakapool. Deadpool is a cool character because he knows he’s in a comic book. He is an amoral assassin and mercenary. Deadpool constantly breaks the fourth wall, and has inane ridiculous banter. His powers include a mastery of martial arts and a regenerative healing factor more powerful than Wolverine’s. There are even comics where the anthropomorphized entity of death is in love with Deadpool. Barakapool was none of these. His mouth is sewn shut. His powers were a hodgepodge of different mutant abilities. He never spoke let alone, broke the forth wall. Death never appeared. He was a mindless weapon thrown against Wolverine. If the character hadn’t been called Deadpool no comic fan would have recognized him.
How will they create a Deadpool spin off from such a big departure? Personally I think the this is a perfect set up for a Deadpool movie. Because Deadpool can break the fourth wall, I would start a movie with the character how wrong the Wolverine movie got him. He could even pull a side by side comparison between Mortal Kombat and Barakapool. During fight scenes Deadpool could have voice over naratives, and wonder off on tangents. If Ryan Renolds does play him I would further this humor. Deadpool could even mention how he doesn’t fight vampires, and never was an emerald toned space cop. Renolds played comic book characters in Blade trinity, and Green Lantern.
Additionally any movie would have to get the look of Deadpool right. In the comics Deadpool is horribly scared, and rarely takes off his mask. When this principle is abandon like the Fantastic Four Movies did to Dr. Doom, something vital is lost. A masked character is incredibly cool if done right, like Darth Vader, and V. Were I to make a Deadpool movie I’d only have our anti hero unmask once or twice, and be hardly recognizable. To convey emotion maybe he could have a CGI mask, whose eyes could movie and narrow. I know they try to get the actors face time, but if Deadpool ran around without a mask on it would ruin part of the characters charm.
Deadpool’s a great character, and his movie has alot of potential. Stay loyal to the comic, and don’t alienate the comic fans that made him popular to begin with!