DEADPOOL: Rob Liefeld Reveals Meeting With Fox Prior to Green Light; Talks Ryan Reynolds' Passion


Due to the fan base exploding from a perfectly timed post-2014 Comic-Con leak of its test footage, 20th Century Fox finally took the Deadpool movie out of development purgatory and gave it a green light for full production in mid-September. The day after the footage leaked, The Daily SuperHero was the first to get the exclusive scoop on the test footage, from comic creator Rob Liefeld. You can read that by clicking right here.

This weekend at Stan Lee's Comikaze 2014, Liefeld spoke at a panel and revealed how he met with Fox after they released The Wolverine (in 2013) to begin discussions about giving the Deadpool movie a potential green light.

"Following Wolverine, the Donners [X-Men producers] called me into their office and said, ‘Rob, we want to meet and talk to you about Deadpool since we’re spinning it off. We know we made some missteps and we want to get it right.’ So I sat there with a bunch of producers and we sat for several hours, and we talked about different ideas. And I tried to steer them in directions... For instance, I’ll tell you [the] first question they said, ‘Rob, does Cable need to be in the Deadpool movie?’ And I said ‘No. Deadpool deserves his own function and Cable should come in in his own movie... you can do them both separately. They don’t need to be in the same movie.’ Look, we had a long talk, we had some ideas... I can’t share them... [but] some of them made it across the finish line."

Nice little tease about Cable... seems like he'll be getting his day on the big screen sooner than later — X-Force is in development by Jeff Wadlow, just saying. Liefeld then spoke about Ryan Reynolds returning to the role of Deadpool and how the actor has been very passionate about making this movie... and making it the right way.

"Ryan is Deadpool. Look, Ryan Reynolds... the guy is ridiculously talented. He has a huge, huge passion for Deadpool... [The studio and/or producers then said] ‘Ryan, what do you want to do?’ And he said ‘Deadpool.’ That’s why it happened. They would have no faith otherwise. That movie is [happening] because of his passion."

Deadpool releases in theaters on February 12, 2016.



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