Just days after Deadpool opened in theaters, it was clear 20th Century Fox would be announcing a sequel very soon. Indeed, we heard a few days previously that the studio had already enlisted Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to start work on scripting Deadpool 2, but given the massive box office we don’t just have a successful superhero movie on our hands, we have a game-changer. The team behind Deadpool was so bullish on continuing the story in a future film that the movie’s post-credits tease reveals that Deadpool 2 will bring comics character Cable into the fold, and indeed the fan-casting for the character has already begun. While Fox will likely officially set things in motion for the Deadpool sequel soon, when Steve spoke with Reese and Wernick a couple of days before Deadpool hit theaters for an extended conversation on Collider Heroes, he took some time to talk about where the story might go in the follow-up. Addressing that Cable tease in particular, Reese said the character is “a very natural place to go,” but was quick to add that just because Deadpool’s getting a sequel doesn’t mean the property will now become a traditional superhero movie: “I think there’s a real conceptual difference between taking other characters and big things and bringing them into Deadpool’s reasonably small, gritty world and the opposite, taking Deadpool and placing him among big ensembles who are fighting aliens or in the future where he and Cable are doing something in the future. I think if Cable and Deadpool team up, it will likely be in Deadpool’s world. 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.” Wernick went one further by pointing out that, ideally, Deadpool 2’s budget won’t be astronomically bigger than the modest $58 million of this first film: “We don’t want $150 million to go make the next movie, that’s not Deadpool. 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.” For More Collider: http://collider.com/ https://www.facebook.com/colliderdotcom

• published: 17 Feb 2016
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