For those two of you that read the book despite it being a mainline Marvel product (and the offense it is to your personal faith)...
This is an excellent character for an action film. Excellent I tell ya.
Strengths: A nonstop-wisecracking, virtually unkillable, emotionally and physically scarred, assassin-for-hire trying to find his place in the world. It allows for a more seamless combination of comedy and action/death/drama at the same time. Deadpool is a gray character, a scumbag who occasionally tries to do the right thing. This kind of theme makes for good movies. He is both cocky and deadly, and yet capable of being somber and a bit... well not kind, but... Unique.
Weaknesses: The backstory behind his ability to suffer plenty of damage. This is directly related to experiments to make him like Wolverine. The "healing factor" that even non-comic readers will have been familiarized with from the X-Men film. It makes a small hurdle for the screenwriter.
Ideas: The characters that are intermingled throughout the comics are, for the most part, unnecessary. Deadpool hasn't been aroud for 30 years, and has in less than 10 years been handed off numerous times to different writers and artists. There isn't a lot of continuity that would be missed. The core elements of what make the comic great aren't the supporting players as much. It's mostly good ol' Wade.
If in the right hands, this film could do very well. It doesn't have the name brand recognition of Spiderman, or the sheer marketability of something as popular. But a film where the comedy doesn't require a useless sidekick, or interefere with the conflict would be excellent.
Based on this premise, even no-readers (of the comic, not this thread), what do you think?
This is an excellent character for an action film. Excellent I tell ya.
Strengths: A nonstop-wisecracking, virtually unkillable, emotionally and physically scarred, assassin-for-hire trying to find his place in the world. It allows for a more seamless combination of comedy and action/death/drama at the same time. Deadpool is a gray character, a scumbag who occasionally tries to do the right thing. This kind of theme makes for good movies. He is both cocky and deadly, and yet capable of being somber and a bit... well not kind, but... Unique.
Weaknesses: The backstory behind his ability to suffer plenty of damage. This is directly related to experiments to make him like Wolverine. The "healing factor" that even non-comic readers will have been familiarized with from the X-Men film. It makes a small hurdle for the screenwriter.
Ideas: The characters that are intermingled throughout the comics are, for the most part, unnecessary. Deadpool hasn't been aroud for 30 years, and has in less than 10 years been handed off numerous times to different writers and artists. There isn't a lot of continuity that would be missed. The core elements of what make the comic great aren't the supporting players as much. It's mostly good ol' Wade.
If in the right hands, this film could do very well. It doesn't have the name brand recognition of Spiderman, or the sheer marketability of something as popular. But a film where the comedy doesn't require a useless sidekick, or interefere with the conflict would be excellent.
Based on this premise, even no-readers (of the comic, not this thread), what do you think?
