“Deadpool is Fantastic” According to Simon Kinberg
Simon Kinsberg has been very vocal as of late about the superhero movies under Fox. First, he said that Fantastic Four might still be getting a sequel, and he’s working to make it happen. Now, he’s talking about Fox’s next big superhero movie, Deadpool. The long desired film is nearing completion, and Kinsberg has seen it, and really liked it as he told Collider:
“I have seen a rough cut of Deadpool and it’s fantastic. It’s a really good movie. It delivers on the promise of the trailer… We really committed and leaned into it being R-rated. It’s just darker and edgier and weirder in the best way—like Deadpool should be—than any other movie in the genre.”
And do I hear sequel talk?
“We certainly are talking about the sequel—we were talking about the sequel while we were making the movie just because when you make a film like this that’s from a serialized source material, you hope that it’s the first of many… But yeah [Fox is] feeling good about it, we’re all feeling really proud of it, so hopefully before it comes out we will be well into the process of figuring out a sequel.”
Now remember, Fantastic Four did get a greenlight for a sequel, and then it bombed and the future of said sequel is in limbo. Though Deadpool is in a better place than Fantastic Four, it’s reception will be critical to where it goes next.
Deadpool arrives Feburary 4, 2016.