Deadpool

And the problem comes when some internet celebrity creates a meme with their reference to a person, fictional or not, and some tropers feel they HAVE to represent that meme to the fullest extent. The Nostalgia Critic did some ribbing of Jeff Goldblum and his page is nigh unreadable because of it.

I like them for character pages, in some senses. I get a little irritated when they start showing up in otherwise regular character pages though - it's getting to the point whenever The Joker or Deadpool show up in a character page anywhere, the page suddenly becomes self demonstrating for the duration, which is very confusing.

Seems like it might be happening. I just hope it's based on the 2010 script.

I was hoping to see this thread come back.

That's promising.

Oh, I wanted to ask this question here where it'd be more appropriate: Do you guys think that, assuming he'd been cast in the part, Wesley Snipes would have been a good Deadpool? I think it might have been cool, and my Exhibit A is Demolition Man, where he's the villain, and he's pretty much Deadpool:

So the movie's officially happening.

Frankly, beyond characters that are actually well-known for breaking the 4th-wall, I've come to find the self-demonstrating character pages to be especially annoying to the point where I can't even read them anymore. And even the characters that are known for it have gotten on my nerves thank to people getting the idea that every comic book character's page needs to be written in first-person.

I did go ahead and split Thanos at one point so that he now has both a self-demonstrating and an actually sane version of his article, but I've never gotten around to doing it to any other character pages in spite of my intentions to do so.

February 2016.

Right. Like there is no reason Doctor Doom or Magneto need self demonstrating pages. Deadpool and Joker I'm fine with because they're known for either breaking or leaning on the fourth wall, but not every damn comic character needs one.

edited 20th Sep '14 10:31:31 AM by comicwriter

The writers have apparently toned down the script to go for a more marketable PG-13 rating, though they insist the "soul" is still there.

Makes sense. I actually felt that the Deadpool game was trying too hard to be adult.

And at the same time, trying to hard to be childish.

The problem with the game was that it was written by Daniel Way.

I googled Daniel Way and found out he's a comic book writer and one of his prominent works is the Deadpool series from 2008-2012.

Exactly why is it a problem that someone who had experience writing Deadpool stories was hired to write a Deadpool video game? It kinda sounds like a logical choice to make IMO.

Unless his DP stories were said to not be very good?

edited 21st Sep '14 4:55:23 PM by TargetmasterJoe

That's exactly it from what I've heard. Daniel Way is considered one of the more sub-par Deadpool writers. He has his fans of course, I remember Max Scoville of Rev3Games being a Daniel Way fan.

They are considered by a large part of the fanbase to be incredibly sub-par though I frankly never had a problem with him. He wasn't exactly a genius but his stories were a good bit of fun. The moments where he fizzled out to me were the attempts at drama.

I never had too much of a problem with him but the major contention people seemed to have with it was there was too much of an emphasis on comedy. A lot of fans like Deadpool to have a mix of seriousness and drama (the current run is good about this) but his tenure erred much closer to Rule of Funny.

edited 21st Sep '14 5:34:02 PM by comicwriter

I myself don't have a problem with Daniel Way's writing of Deadpool.

Ryan Reynolds is seemingly confirming his involvement on Twitter.

TJ Miller and Ed Skrein are being looked at for roles.

If I had to go on a wild guess, TJ Miller would probably be eyed at for Weasel or Bob Agent of HYDRA (since he seems to excels at playing losers). Ed Skrein has equal opportunity of being Weasel and/or Bob Agent of HYDRA actually, since he has played a few similar roles in the past, but since he's been tyring to be badass lately (Transporter, Game of Thrones, an upcoming movie called Northman Saga), I'd guesse he's probably one of the villains.

Ajax doesn't bear much resemblance to him but maybe that Carnage Expy Weapon X experiment whose name always escapes me.

Could be playing Agent X.

Does Fox have the rights to use Bob, since HYDRA is with Marvel Studios?

It could be like Viper where both studios can use her but Fox just can't call her Madame HYDRA.

IIRC in the script there were a few different villains. In addition to Ajax there were some villains working under him like Garrison Kane and Wyre.

edited 6th Jan '15 4:56:57 PM by comicwriter

It'd be hilarious if they used Bob, and made a joke out of the fact that they can't use the name of his organization.

In the credits, they could even call him Bob: Agent of _____.

Every time he tries to dub himself, something dramatically cuts him off, and in the credits Deadpool vandalizes his name so it won't appear fully. Deadpool vandalizing the credits is actually a must.

Deadline says the script is by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the writers for Zombieland. It's fairly offbeat, with a mix of horror and comedy, so that seems like a good sign that they can strike the right tone. On the other hand, they also wrote G.I. Joe 2 - Retaliation, which is generally regarded as terrible.

Tim Miller, the director, doesn't seem to have any prior directing experience except a couple of animated shorts, so I'm not sure why they picked him.

http://deadline.com/2014/12/ryan-reynolds-deadpool-fox-x-men-1201309406/

edited 6th Jan '15 6:13:48 PM by WarriorEowyn