Following the massive success of last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds is quietly plotting a return to the iconic Merc with a Mouth, exploring ideas for a team-up movie featuring Deadpool alongside certain members of the X-Men.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Reynolds is “working on various treatments for an ensemble film featuring three or four X-Men characters.” The film, which is still in its early conceptual phase, would see the return of Deadpool, but in more of a supporting role to “allow for the X-Men characters to be used in unexpected ways”, although there’s no word yet on which specific characters will be eyed for the project.
Although the actor and producer has not pitched an idea to Marvel yet, Reynolds has toyed with the concept of bringing X-Men characters into his movies before, with Stefan Kapičić’s X-Men hero Colossus appearing in all three Deadpool movies, alongside the villains Sabertooth (Tyler Mane) and Pyro (Aaron Stanford) making a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine. Reynolds even wrote the Gambit role for Channing Tatum in the R-rated flick, with the card-slinging mutant now set to appear in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday.
This new team-up concept does come as a surprise, though, as Reynolds stated that Deadpool joining forces with either the X-Men or the Avengers might have unintended consequences. “His ultimate dream is to be accepted and appreciated. But he can’t be accepted. His coping mechanism of deflecting shame through humour works only when used to pave over his many inadequacies,” he explained, “If and when he does become an Avenger or X-Man, we’re at the end of his journey.”
Still, since the project is in its infancy, it remains to be seen if the iconic anti-hero would ever receive his place on the X-Men team he so desires. As for Reynolds, the 48-year-old is currently working on a rewrite of the script for Boy Band, an upcoming film from Paramount surrounding ageing members of a boy band, with the film marking the actor’s shift in recent years to producing and writing.
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