Legions of Deadpool
fans are waiting anxiously for the Merc With A Mouth’s spin-off movie,
hoping it’ll redress Wade Wilson’s mistreatment in X-Men Origins:
Wolverine. But Ryan Reynolds told io9.com he’ll
either star in Deadpool or R.I.P.D... but not both.
Io9.com caught up with
Reynolds doing some press for his new “trapped in a coffin” movie Buried, which
comes out in limited release this weekend. Reynolds’ IMDB page lists him as
signed up for six different movies in pre-production. So we asked him about his
upcoming plans, including Deadpool and the undead-cops comic book adaptation R.I.P.D.
And here’s what he told us:
So can you tell us when you might be filming Deadpool or R.I.P.D?
Neither [is] next. I
shoot a movie called The Change-Up
next. It’s kind of like an R-rated comedy, and right after that I start on a
thriller called Safe House
with Denzel Washington. And then, after that is where one of those two movies
will hopefully fall.
But you don’t know which one yet?
People sort of ask this
question, like I have any say in the matter. They’re both movies I’m interested
in, they’re both movies that are in fast-track development. But I never say I’m
doing a movie until I break for lunch the first day. Because it’s such a
crapshoot, this industry. Everything’s so fickle and so contingent on so many
factors, aside from just an actor. And because it has an actor, and because
these films have interested directors, it’s obviously likely that they’ll both
get made. But I think it would be more likely that only one of them gets made
with me.
Because you got otgher projects on the horizon like
Green Lantern 2?
Oh, yeah, we got to get
that cart well in front of the horse, I guess. (Laughs)
The good news is, it
actually sounds like Reynolds’ next project, The Change-Up, has a fantasy/SF
twist. Reynolds’ slacker character swaps bodies with responsible family man
Jason Bateman, so Bateman can date Olivia Wilde’s character, who’s a co-worker
at Bateman’s law firm. This film is from the writers of The Hangover and the
director of Wedding Crashers, David Dobkin. I’d heard about this project, but
hadn’t realized it had any speculative elements.
Source [io9.com]
