DEADPOOL is out and is a huge hit. Fact.
DEADPOOL will get a sequel. Fact.
Deadpool himself said Cable is coming in a sequel. Fact.
These are all known facts now but right before the movie released in theaters, Collider spoke with DEADPOOL writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who touched on the possibility of a sequel, its budget, Cable other X-Men character usage and a potential X-FORCE movie.
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These are all known facts now but right before the movie released in theaters, Collider spoke with DEADPOOL writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who touched on the possibility of a sequel, its budget, Cable other X-Men character usage and a potential X-FORCE movie.
On a DEADPOOL sequel, keeping its budget small and Cable
"I think if Cable and Deadpool team up, it will likely be in Deadpool’s world," Reese said. "That allows us to control that budgetary thing a little more; I don’t think we’re gonna see Deadpool and Cable on some far-flung planet 300 years from now because I just feel like that’s gonna be expensive, A, and will also take away from the relatability of Deadpool. I think at this stage in the game it’s about taking other people and dropping them into this reasonably insular, gritty, urban, dark world of Deadpool.”
“We don’t want $150 million to go make the next movie, that’s not Deadpool," Wernick added. "Deadpool doesn’t lift cities up into the air or battle aliens coming down to earth, that’s just not Deadpool. So we’re happy in that little small budget range that they have us in; we don’t wanna blow this next one out.”
On Fox's X-Men character catalog
“It’s a legal list but it’s also a creative list, because X-Men: Apocalypse has plans, they have plans for future X-Men movies, and we also have timeline issues," Reese said. "We have actors who are now playing the parts who are a younger generation, we have the older actors—where does Deadpool’s timeline fit in with the others? These are all things that Simon Kinberg worries about for the moment instead of us. Colossus was easy to do because he’s chrome and there was no live-action actor playing him, Negasonic was easy to do because she’s a very minor character, but if you start talking about Professor X or Beast you do start running into timeline issues and we’re gonna need guidelines on that.”
On the potential build into an X-FORCE movie
“[X-Force] certainly could be a path," Reese shared. "Those decisions haven’t been made yet, but if you look at Iron Man it’s like you establish him in one movie, you do one more solo movie, and then you move to Avengers. That might be a pretty nicely prescribed path, but it just hasn’t been decided so I don’t know.”
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