You’re right, Deadpool. Something is tingling, but I’m not sure it’s common sense.
According to Deadline, Deadpool up and has a director! Wow! Bang! Awesome! Just like that? Well, who is it?
Visual effects wizard Tim Miller.
Oh. Look, I’m all for tapping unknown talent and giving some promising talent his first shot. Miller has a nice history with the X-Men — he did the VFX for X-Men and X2 — and he’s worked closely with many directors. I imagine one picks up a lot from David Fincher, Zack Snyder and James Cameron even when the film you’re all working on — Heavy Metal — doesn’t take off. He’s currently working on The Dark Tower VFX with Ron Howard. I’m sure Miller has lots of potential.
But does that mean he should be doing Deadpool? This seems counter intuitive to what Fox was doing to revive their franchises by bringing on respected directors like Darren Aronofsky and Matthew Vaughn. This is a character Fox swore they would get right after what they did to him in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (Which, incidentally, was the last time we got a — somewhat — untried director at the helm of a mutant movie.)
Deadpool is a slam dunk if handled right. Fox seems determined not to do that. Run while you can, Ryan Reynolds.
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Aronofsky didn’t work out and we all saw what a well-regarded director did with the first Wolverine movie. Maybe someone fresh would be better.
Elisabeth Rappe, So, does that mean that Fox is considering David Slade as the new director for…The Wolverine? He was…Supposedly directing Deadpool! Tim Miller might just be…Dead on, as director!
With Deadpool, if the script is good, it could practically direct itself. The character is so goofy that I’d almost like to see someone with a family comedy background take a stab at directing it to see what they come up with.
Next week Reynolds will drop out due to creative differences, and Ray Stevenson will land the role.
I’m having a bout of confusion here, is the untried actor being referred to Gavin Hood?
Gavin Hood is not an ‘untried’ director. If you want to use an example, you could have used someone like Scott Stewart, who was basically handed the task of directing the shit pile Legion a few years ago. Anyways, Deadpool needs his own film but I don’t think Ryan Reynolds should be playing him. I am having a hard enough time with Chris Evans as Cap America/Johnny Storm. Re-cast Deadpool and get a good writer and film that thing.
Sounds good prunetracy, but if Green Lantern scores big, they’ll probably stick with Reynolds.
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