DEADPOOL is still dominating the box office and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are busy penning its sequel. One thing known that'll be coming in the sequel is that the comic book anti-hero Cable, who is the mutant son of Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Madelyne Pryor (a Jean Grey clone), is coming to the big screen.
Reese and Wernick spoke with Indiewire's The Playlist and touched on topics about DEADPOOL 2 and beyond.
“Yeah, we’re on that path,” Wernick said regarding Cable coming in DEADPOOL 2. "We teased him in the [end credits] coda, we’re sticking to those plans and are having a great time writing.”
The guys then spoke about the planned path they're taken when it comes to building Fox's new DEADPOOL franchise.
“...[I]f you look at the ‘Iron Man’ model they had two 'Iron Man' [movies] before they had an ‘Avengers,’ and if left up to us, I think that would be a very prudent path,” Reese said. "The second issue at hand is the 'X-Men' universe timeline. 'The X-Men' series is currently set in the 1980s, 'Deadpool,' is set three decades later in our present day.
“It’s a timeline that will eventually catch up I would imagine,” Wernick said. “But ['X-Men' producer] Simon [Kingberg’s] more the keeper of that universe and maybe we’ll see more X-Men playing in Deadpool’s sandbox and probably Deadpool playing in their sandbox at some point.
"Deadpool’s now become a brand and franchise unto himself, independent of the ‘X-Men' and that’s great,” Wernick continued. “And that gives the studio two franchises in one, but I think it is its own franchise, and you’ll see synergy between those two properties, but they’re two very distinct brands.”
The scribes, who are now the guardians of the DEADPOOL franchise along with producer and lead actor Ryan Reynolds, addressed the fact they will have a hand in any possible X-FORCE movie.
“We will have a hand in it,” Wernick said. “I think everything that ‘Deadpool’ is involved in we will have a hand in and it’s a universe that Ryan [Reynolds] and us are very close to and very protective of, so I do think we would absolutely involved in that franchise as well. If it’s Deadpool relate, I think you’ll see some of our fingerprints on that.”
Based on these comments, it seems Deadpool could be popping up in future X-Men movies (here and there) but Fox's previously-being-developed and dormant for a few years X-FORCE movie is back on the table so Deadpool, and probably Cable, can be a part of their own mutant ensemble team movie.
It's a great time to be a Deadpool fan.
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