Deadpool (2016) - From Comics to Screen: Origin...ier! Featurette
1Behind the Scenes Featurette from the movie Deadpool (2016).
Listen to the commentary track featuring actor Ryan Reynolds and writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/behindthemovies/episodes/Deadpool-2016---Commentary-Track-1-e22r6ka
Listen to the commentary track featuring director Tim Miller and Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefield here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/behindthemovies/episodes/Deadpool-2016---Commentary-Track-2-e29dts3
Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is a spin-off in the X-Men film series and the eighth instalment overall. Directed by Tim Miller (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, it stars Ryan Reynolds in the title role alongside Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J. Miller, Gina Carano, and Brianna Hildebrand. In the film, Wade Wilson hunts the man who gave him mutant abilities and a scarred physical appearance, becoming the antihero Deadpool.
Development of a Deadpool film starring Reynolds began in February 2004, before he played the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009. Reese and Wernick were hired for a spinoff in 2010 and worked with Reynolds to adapt the character more faithfully (including his fourth-wall-breaking) after the portrayal in Wolverine was criticized. Miller was hired in 2011. An enthusiastic response to leaked test footage he created with Reynolds led to a green light from Fox in 2014. Additional casting began in early 2015, and filming took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, from March to May. Several vendors provided visual effects for the film, ranging from the addition of blood and gore to the creation of the CGI character Colossus.
After an unconventional marketing campaign, Deadpool was released in the United States on February 12, 2016. The film achieved both financial and critical success. It earned $782.6 million against a $58 million budget, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2016 and breaking numerous records, including the highest-grossing R-rated film at the time. Critics praised Reynolds' performance, the film's style and faithfulness to the comics, along with its action sequences, though some criticized the plot as formulaic and were divided on the film's adult humour. It received many awards and nominations, including two Critics' Choice awards and two Golden Globe nominations.
A sequel, Deadpool 2, was released in 2018 to comparable critical and commercial success. After Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox, the character's film rights were returned to Marvel Studios alongside the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Deadpool 3, a third film starring Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, which will integrate the characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is scheduled for release on July 26, 2024, as the fourth film in Phase Five of the MCU.