Deadpool: Are big screen Chimichangas in our Future?

“Ryan is ready, I am ready, the fans are more than ready, we just need that elusive green light.” The studio green light is all that fans of our favourite antihero, Deadpool have between them and the big screen film that they are dying to see. The loveably psychotic “merc with a mouth” first hit the shelves of our comic stores in 1991 in New Mutants #98 and was the genius brainchild of writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Robert Liefeld. Since 1991 Deadpool has gone on to become one of Marvels greatest successes and has one of the largest fan followings of all of Marvel’s characters.

This week fans fell into geeky love with the leaked test footage of Tom Miller’s Deadpool movie project. I personally was considering writing an article on how I believed portraying the undying mutant would be a difficult task but after seeing the test footage staring the voice of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool I feel that is no longer an issue. 

The incredible official hd test footage can be found at this link (as blogspot doesn't like to embed anything other than yotube videos) http://dai.ly/x22eged

And if that isn't the epitome of what a Deadpool fight scene should look like I don't know what is. We have the truly brutal scenes of throwing people under cars, neck snapping and playing with freshly severed heads to the surreal yet hilarious comedy that is what makes Deadpool. It also seems that Tom Miller is holding onto Deadpools signature awareness of the 4th wall which fans have always loved about the killer. The animation of the scene is also truly beautiful, seemingly almost a true perfect blend between the cgi and live action footage to the point where I know I'm unsure as to what's one or the other at times.

Ryan Reynolds is a guarantee to be voicing the immortal psychopath as shown in the released footage. Reynolds last role as the antihero however was met with disappointment from fans in his role in the film Xmen Origins: Wolverine. This disappointment mostly came from the very odd transformation Wade Wilson went through towards the end of the film...

Lazer eyes, sword arms and teleportation powers? If someone could let me know what director Gavin Hood was thinking showing this to appeal to hardcore Deadpool fans I'd be very interested to understand. But as Ryan Reynold's hilarious role in the new test footage has shown we can't blame him for the far less than perfect X-Men Origins Deadpool, can we? Overall it is no doubt that fans having fingers, toes and duel katanas of death crossed in hopes for the single green light needed to make the long awaited Deadpool film a reality and with the new test footage, we're hoping that is not going to be a far fetched hope for much longer.