Deadpool (film)
Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is the eighth installment and the second spinoff of the X-Men film series, and is directed by Tim Miller. Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J. Miller, Gina Carano, Brianna Hildebrand, and Stefan Kapicic. In Deadpool, Wade Wilson hunts the man who gave him an accelerated healing factor, but also a scarred physical appearance.
Development of a Deadpool film began in February 2004 with New Line Cinema. However, in March 2005, New Line put the film in turnaround and 20th Century Fox became interested. In May 2009, after Reynolds portrayed the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox lent the film to writers, and in April 2011, Miller was hired for his directorial debut. CGI test footage created by Miller and Reynolds was leaked in July 2014 to an enthusiastic response, leading to Fox greenlighting the film that September. Additional casting began in early 2015, and principal photography took place in Vancouver, Canada, from March to May. Visual effects were provided by multiple vendors, and ranged from the addition of blood and gore to the creation of the completely computer generated character Colossus.
Deadpool premiered in Paris on February 8, 2016, and was released on February 12, 2016, in North America in IMAX, DLP, D-Box and premium large formats. The film has broken numerous box office records and generally received positive reviews; it became the highest-grossing R-rated comic book film, while critics praised Reynolds' performance, the humor, and the action sequences, but criticized the plot as formulaic. A sequel has been greenlit.
Plot
Wade Wilson is a former Special Forces operative who works as a mercenary in New York City. He meets escort Vanessa Carlysle at a local bar and they become romantically attached. One year later, Wade proposes to her and she accepts, but he suddenly collapses. Wade is diagnosed with terminal cancer and though Vanessa remains by his side, he does not want her to watch him die.
A recruiter from a secret program approaches Wade, offering an experimental cure for his cancer. Although Wade initially refuses, he decides to leave Vanessa and undergo the procedure. At a laboratory, Wade meets Ajax and Angel Dust, whom he instantly resents. Ajax injects Wade with a serum designed to awaken latent mutant genes, then has him subjected to days of torture to induce stress and trigger the mutation without success. Wade discovers Ajax's real name, Francis Freeman, and mocks him. In response, Ajax straps Wade into an airtight chamber which raises and lowers the oxygen level to keep Wade constantly on the verge of asphyxiation - leaving him over the weekend but not before Ajax reveals to Wade their true purpose: to make super-powered slaves to be sold to wealthy customers. While inside the chamber, Wade develops a healing factor that cures his cancer but leaves him severely disfigured as a side-effect. He escapes from the chamber and attacks Ajax, but relents when told that his disfigurement can be cured. Ajax subdues Wade, impales him with a rebar and leaves him for dead in the burning laboratory.
Wade survives the ordeal and attempts to return to Vanessa, but is afraid of her suffering because of his appearance, and stays away from her. After consulting his best friend Weasel, Wade decides to hunt down Ajax and have his disfigurement cured. He becomes a masked vigilante, takes the alias "Deadpool", and moves into the home of an elderly blind woman named Blind Al. Following a string of leads, Deadpool tracks down Ajax to a convoy of cars on an expressway. He kills all the escorts, corners Ajax and demands a cure to his disfigurement. The confrontation is interrupted by two X-Men, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, who have been trying to recruit Deadpool to join them. Taking advantage of the distraction, Ajax escapes. Enraged, Deadpool fights Colossus, but he ends up breaking both of his own hands and right leg. Colossus handcuffs Wade to his wrist and begins dragging him away, planning to take him to Professor Xavier back at the X-Mansion. Deadpool cuts off his hand and escapes. His hand slowly regenerates overnight.
Ajax goes to Weasel's bar and learns about Vanessa. Weasel calls Wade and tells him Vanessa is in danger. Wade goes to the strip club where she works but hesitates before he can face her. Wade arrives too late, for Ajax and Angel Dust kidnap Vanessa in a back alley. Later, Wade gets a text to meet them on a decommissioned helicarrier in a scrapyard.
Deadpool convinces Colossus and Negasonic to help him, and the trio takes a cab to the scrapyard. While Colossus and Negasonic battle Angel Dust and several minions, Deadpool fights his way through Ajax's henchmen, and eventually engages him in a bloody showdown. After Angel Dust defeats Colossus, Negasonic attacks her, but accidentally destroys the equipment holding the helicarrier upright. As the helicarrier tips over, Colossus carries Negasonic and Angel Dust to safety, while Deadpool saves Vanessa, who is imprisoned in an airtight chamber. Ajax survives and attacks Deadpool, but is subdued and reveals there is no cure for Wade's disfigurement. Despite objections from Colossus, Deadpool kills Ajax. Vanessa is angered that Wade left her, but still loves him. She accepts him, and they reconcile by kissing.
In a post-credits scene, Wade tells the audience that the film is over and announces a sequel featuring Cable.
Cast-
Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool:
A mercenary who is subjected to an experimental regenerative mutation to cure his cancer, which gives him accelerated healing superpowers, but severely scars his body. Reynolds called this version of Deadpool more "authentic" and closer to the comic version than his X-Men Origins: Wolverine version,saying that this Deadpool "takes nothing seriously."
Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle:
An escort and Wilson's girlfriend. Baccarin described her as "scrappy, she’s not worried about her hair and her nails or messing around. She gets down and dirty and she’s not a victim, she’s not a damsel in distress. It actually even says that in some of the fighting, she’s like 'I can take care of myself and if you think I’m just gonna sit here and scream so you can come and rescue me, you’re wrong.'"
Ed Skrein as Francis Freeman / Ajax:
An artificially-mutated member of Weapon X, the program that creates Deadpool. Ajax is a weapons expert, with enhanced strength and an inability to feel pain. According to Tim Miller, Skrein did '80%' of his own stunts, with stunt doubles only used for rigged stunts.
T. J. Miller as Weasel: Wilson's best friend.
Gina Carano as Angel Dust:
An artificially-mutated member of Weapon X, who possesses superhuman levels of strength, stamina and speed. Carano was given "some room to play with" the characterization of Angel Dust, and said that the "character trusts Ajax with everything. She pretty much only really responds to him. He...kinda created me and showed me everything. And I do the same thing to everyone else."
Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead:
A teenage X-Men trainee, who possesses the mutant power to detonate atomic bursts from her body.The writers chose to use the character based on her name, and changed her abilities from telepathic and precognitive powers to "a literal warhead because we thought it was funnier." To do this, they required permission from Marvel, with Miller talking directly with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to do so.
Stefan Kapicic as the voice of Piotr Rasputin / Colossus:
An X-Man with the mutant ability to transform his entire body into organic steel. The role was originally offered to Daniel Cudmore, who played the character in X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, and X-Men: Days of Future Past, but he declined. Instead, Colossus became a performance by several actors: Kapicic provided the voice; Andre Tricoteux provided the on-set performance;T. J. Storm provided the final body motion performance; motion capture supervisor Greg LaSalle provided the final facial performance.and Glenn Ennis was used as "the inspiration for the chiseled jaw look behind the character".
Additionally, Leslie Uggams portrays Blind Al, an elderly blind woman and Deadpool's roommate;Jed Rees portrays a Weapon X recruiter; and Karan Soni portrays Dopinder, a taxi driver.
X-Men co-creator Stan Lee and Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld make cameo appearances as a strip club MC and a patron of Weasel's bar, respectively. Rob Hayter briefly appears as Bob, a recurring character alongside Deadpool's comic appearances. The film does not reference Bob's comic history as an agent of Hydra, due to rights issues with Marvel Studios.
Pre-production
In December 2014, Reynolds was confirmed to reprise his role as Wade Wilson / Deadpool.The next month, T. J. Miller and Ed Skrein were in talks to appear in the film;in February 2015, Gina Carano was cast as Angel Dust, Miller was confirmed for an unspecified role, and so was Morena Baccarin.Taylor Schilling, Crystal Reed, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Sarah Greene, and Jessica De Gouw were also considered for Baccarin's role.
In March, Miller's role was revealed to be Weasel, while Baccarin's was revealed to be Vanessa Carlysle.Brianna Hildebrand was cast as Negasonic Teenage Warhead,and a month later Skrein revealed that he would play Ajax. Leslie Uggams revealed she would portray Blind Al in July, and Tim Miller revealed that Jed Rees would portray the Recruiter in August. Stefan Kapicic voiced Colossus,replacing Daniel Cudmore, who played the character in previous X-Men films. Cudmore was asked to return for Deadpool, but declined as his voice was always intended to be replaced.
Talking about the make-up used to depict the scarring on Wilson's body, Tim Miller said, "There was some discussion about how horrible we could make it, and I firmly planted my flag in 'fucking horrible', because if it isn't, nobody's going to excuse him for being such a dick and being so angry. If it's just a few scars we’re not going to have any sympathy for him. To Fox's credit they were like, 'Go for it.
But that said, we didn't want to make him a zombie, which some of the comics go pretty far with. I'm all for authenticity but you can’t have a main character who's leaking pus. You don't want to see inside his mouth when he's chewing, that's a bridge too far. I think he looks suitably hideous. And that's not the only stage of the make-up: when we first see him in the workshop it's pretty raw."
Elaborating on the initial make-up scene in the workshop, Miller stated that it took 6 hours to apply Reynolds' full-body make-up. Also, visual effects supervisor Jonathan Rothbart discussed the practical costume created for Deadpool, noting that it was difficult to replicate later in CGI for the visual effects.
"The costume is made of this mesh so all the dirt would get into the gutters and the cracks and crevices of the costume. Then all the ridges of the mesh would stay nice and clean, so anytime sun would be on it and the light hits it, it still takes that orangey hue but as soon as it goes in the shadow it dropped to this more blueish of the dirt.
Music
In January 2016, Tom Holkenborg confirmed that he would compose the score for Deadpool. He used synthesizers made popular in the 80s that "were perceived as very serious [at the time, but] now, in hindsight, when you play them back, they’re very funny." For Deadpool's primary 'riffs', Holkenborg used an ARP 2600 synth and a Synclavier, while an Oberheim synthesizer was used for the more emotional scenes.
A full orchestra was used for the X-Men to give them a "noble" feeling and to honor the previous X-Men films. The film's soundtrack also features several songs, including "Deadpool Rap" by YouTube personalities TeamHeadKick, which was originally inspired by the 2013 Deadpool video game; the film version features updated lyrics which reference the events of the film rather than elements of the game.
The soundtrack album was released digitally on February 12, 2016, featuring both Holkenborg's score and songs from other artists that are used in the film. Physical copies of the soundtrack will be available through Milan Records on March 4, 2016.
Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is the eighth installment and the second spinoff of the X-Men film series, and is directed by Tim Miller. Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J. Miller, Gina Carano, Brianna Hildebrand, and Stefan Kapicic. In Deadpool, Wade Wilson hunts the man who gave him an accelerated healing factor, but also a scarred physical appearance.
Development of a Deadpool film began in February 2004 with New Line Cinema. However, in March 2005, New Line put the film in turnaround and 20th Century Fox became interested. In May 2009, after Reynolds portrayed the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Fox lent the film to writers, and in April 2011, Miller was hired for his directorial debut. CGI test footage created by Miller and Reynolds was leaked in July 2014 to an enthusiastic response, leading to Fox greenlighting the film that September. Additional casting began in early 2015, and principal photography took place in Vancouver, Canada, from March to May. Visual effects were provided by multiple vendors, and ranged from the addition of blood and gore to the creation of the completely computer generated character Colossus.
Deadpool premiered in Paris on February 8, 2016, and was released on February 12, 2016, in North America in IMAX, DLP, D-Box and premium large formats. The film has broken numerous box office records and generally received positive reviews; it became the highest-grossing R-rated comic book film, while critics praised Reynolds' performance, the humor, and the action sequences, but criticized the plot as formulaic. A sequel has been greenlit.
Plot
Wade Wilson is a former Special Forces operative who works as a mercenary in New York City. He meets escort Vanessa Carlysle at a local bar and they become romantically attached. One year later, Wade proposes to her and she accepts, but he suddenly collapses. Wade is diagnosed with terminal cancer and though Vanessa remains by his side, he does not want her to watch him die.
A recruiter from a secret program approaches Wade, offering an experimental cure for his cancer. Although Wade initially refuses, he decides to leave Vanessa and undergo the procedure. At a laboratory, Wade meets Ajax and Angel Dust, whom he instantly resents. Ajax injects Wade with a serum designed to awaken latent mutant genes, then has him subjected to days of torture to induce stress and trigger the mutation without success. Wade discovers Ajax's real name, Francis Freeman, and mocks him. In response, Ajax straps Wade into an airtight chamber which raises and lowers the oxygen level to keep Wade constantly on the verge of asphyxiation - leaving him over the weekend but not before Ajax reveals to Wade their true purpose: to make super-powered slaves to be sold to wealthy customers. While inside the chamber, Wade develops a healing factor that cures his cancer but leaves him severely disfigured as a side-effect. He escapes from the chamber and attacks Ajax, but relents when told that his disfigurement can be cured. Ajax subdues Wade, impales him with a rebar and leaves him for dead in the burning laboratory.
Wade survives the ordeal and attempts to return to Vanessa, but is afraid of her suffering because of his appearance, and stays away from her. After consulting his best friend Weasel, Wade decides to hunt down Ajax and have his disfigurement cured. He becomes a masked vigilante, takes the alias "Deadpool", and moves into the home of an elderly blind woman named Blind Al. Following a string of leads, Deadpool tracks down Ajax to a convoy of cars on an expressway. He kills all the escorts, corners Ajax and demands a cure to his disfigurement. The confrontation is interrupted by two X-Men, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, who have been trying to recruit Deadpool to join them. Taking advantage of the distraction, Ajax escapes. Enraged, Deadpool fights Colossus, but he ends up breaking both of his own hands and right leg. Colossus handcuffs Wade to his wrist and begins dragging him away, planning to take him to Professor Xavier back at the X-Mansion. Deadpool cuts off his hand and escapes. His hand slowly regenerates overnight.
Ajax goes to Weasel's bar and learns about Vanessa. Weasel calls Wade and tells him Vanessa is in danger. Wade goes to the strip club where she works but hesitates before he can face her. Wade arrives too late, for Ajax and Angel Dust kidnap Vanessa in a back alley. Later, Wade gets a text to meet them on a decommissioned helicarrier in a scrapyard.
Deadpool convinces Colossus and Negasonic to help him, and the trio takes a cab to the scrapyard. While Colossus and Negasonic battle Angel Dust and several minions, Deadpool fights his way through Ajax's henchmen, and eventually engages him in a bloody showdown. After Angel Dust defeats Colossus, Negasonic attacks her, but accidentally destroys the equipment holding the helicarrier upright. As the helicarrier tips over, Colossus carries Negasonic and Angel Dust to safety, while Deadpool saves Vanessa, who is imprisoned in an airtight chamber. Ajax survives and attacks Deadpool, but is subdued and reveals there is no cure for Wade's disfigurement. Despite objections from Colossus, Deadpool kills Ajax. Vanessa is angered that Wade left her, but still loves him. She accepts him, and they reconcile by kissing.
In a post-credits scene, Wade tells the audience that the film is over and announces a sequel featuring Cable.
Cast-
Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool:
A mercenary who is subjected to an experimental regenerative mutation to cure his cancer, which gives him accelerated healing superpowers, but severely scars his body. Reynolds called this version of Deadpool more "authentic" and closer to the comic version than his X-Men Origins: Wolverine version,saying that this Deadpool "takes nothing seriously."
Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle:
An escort and Wilson's girlfriend. Baccarin described her as "scrappy, she’s not worried about her hair and her nails or messing around. She gets down and dirty and she’s not a victim, she’s not a damsel in distress. It actually even says that in some of the fighting, she’s like 'I can take care of myself and if you think I’m just gonna sit here and scream so you can come and rescue me, you’re wrong.'"
Ed Skrein as Francis Freeman / Ajax:
An artificially-mutated member of Weapon X, the program that creates Deadpool. Ajax is a weapons expert, with enhanced strength and an inability to feel pain. According to Tim Miller, Skrein did '80%' of his own stunts, with stunt doubles only used for rigged stunts.
T. J. Miller as Weasel: Wilson's best friend.
Gina Carano as Angel Dust:
An artificially-mutated member of Weapon X, who possesses superhuman levels of strength, stamina and speed. Carano was given "some room to play with" the characterization of Angel Dust, and said that the "character trusts Ajax with everything. She pretty much only really responds to him. He...kinda created me and showed me everything. And I do the same thing to everyone else."
Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead:
A teenage X-Men trainee, who possesses the mutant power to detonate atomic bursts from her body.The writers chose to use the character based on her name, and changed her abilities from telepathic and precognitive powers to "a literal warhead because we thought it was funnier." To do this, they required permission from Marvel, with Miller talking directly with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige to do so.
Stefan Kapicic as the voice of Piotr Rasputin / Colossus:
An X-Man with the mutant ability to transform his entire body into organic steel. The role was originally offered to Daniel Cudmore, who played the character in X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, and X-Men: Days of Future Past, but he declined. Instead, Colossus became a performance by several actors: Kapicic provided the voice; Andre Tricoteux provided the on-set performance;T. J. Storm provided the final body motion performance; motion capture supervisor Greg LaSalle provided the final facial performance.and Glenn Ennis was used as "the inspiration for the chiseled jaw look behind the character".
Additionally, Leslie Uggams portrays Blind Al, an elderly blind woman and Deadpool's roommate;Jed Rees portrays a Weapon X recruiter; and Karan Soni portrays Dopinder, a taxi driver.
X-Men co-creator Stan Lee and Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld make cameo appearances as a strip club MC and a patron of Weasel's bar, respectively. Rob Hayter briefly appears as Bob, a recurring character alongside Deadpool's comic appearances. The film does not reference Bob's comic history as an agent of Hydra, due to rights issues with Marvel Studios.
Pre-production
In December 2014, Reynolds was confirmed to reprise his role as Wade Wilson / Deadpool.The next month, T. J. Miller and Ed Skrein were in talks to appear in the film;in February 2015, Gina Carano was cast as Angel Dust, Miller was confirmed for an unspecified role, and so was Morena Baccarin.Taylor Schilling, Crystal Reed, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Sarah Greene, and Jessica De Gouw were also considered for Baccarin's role.
In March, Miller's role was revealed to be Weasel, while Baccarin's was revealed to be Vanessa Carlysle.Brianna Hildebrand was cast as Negasonic Teenage Warhead,and a month later Skrein revealed that he would play Ajax. Leslie Uggams revealed she would portray Blind Al in July, and Tim Miller revealed that Jed Rees would portray the Recruiter in August. Stefan Kapicic voiced Colossus,replacing Daniel Cudmore, who played the character in previous X-Men films. Cudmore was asked to return for Deadpool, but declined as his voice was always intended to be replaced.
Talking about the make-up used to depict the scarring on Wilson's body, Tim Miller said, "There was some discussion about how horrible we could make it, and I firmly planted my flag in 'fucking horrible', because if it isn't, nobody's going to excuse him for being such a dick and being so angry. If it's just a few scars we’re not going to have any sympathy for him. To Fox's credit they were like, 'Go for it.
But that said, we didn't want to make him a zombie, which some of the comics go pretty far with. I'm all for authenticity but you can’t have a main character who's leaking pus. You don't want to see inside his mouth when he's chewing, that's a bridge too far. I think he looks suitably hideous. And that's not the only stage of the make-up: when we first see him in the workshop it's pretty raw."
Elaborating on the initial make-up scene in the workshop, Miller stated that it took 6 hours to apply Reynolds' full-body make-up. Also, visual effects supervisor Jonathan Rothbart discussed the practical costume created for Deadpool, noting that it was difficult to replicate later in CGI for the visual effects.
"The costume is made of this mesh so all the dirt would get into the gutters and the cracks and crevices of the costume. Then all the ridges of the mesh would stay nice and clean, so anytime sun would be on it and the light hits it, it still takes that orangey hue but as soon as it goes in the shadow it dropped to this more blueish of the dirt.
Music
In January 2016, Tom Holkenborg confirmed that he would compose the score for Deadpool. He used synthesizers made popular in the 80s that "were perceived as very serious [at the time, but] now, in hindsight, when you play them back, they’re very funny." For Deadpool's primary 'riffs', Holkenborg used an ARP 2600 synth and a Synclavier, while an Oberheim synthesizer was used for the more emotional scenes.
A full orchestra was used for the X-Men to give them a "noble" feeling and to honor the previous X-Men films. The film's soundtrack also features several songs, including "Deadpool Rap" by YouTube personalities TeamHeadKick, which was originally inspired by the 2013 Deadpool video game; the film version features updated lyrics which reference the events of the film rather than elements of the game.
The soundtrack album was released digitally on February 12, 2016, featuring both Holkenborg's score and songs from other artists that are used in the film. Physical copies of the soundtrack will be available through Milan Records on March 4, 2016.
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