Saying, "Hey, if this thing is going to stagnate, one of us should just say 'Whoops, I slipped it online by accident.'" And nobody seemed to want to nut up and do that, myself included. I was excited, because you can look back at an email chain from all of us, the core group involved in Deadpool, saying "We should leak this, f-," like three years ago. So when you saw it online were you nervous? Excited? And then once that happened, somebody hacked into Blur Studios and got the original footage in high-res and put it online. The initial came from Fox they think - someone recorded the footage on their iPhone and then released it. But I have since investigated that enough, in quiet moments when he was beyond the point of being penalized by anybody, and he said that he really didn't do it. I would have, if I had known it would have caused that! Honestly, we all thought Tim Miller, the director, had leaked it. Exclusively the leaked test footage, 100 percent. How did the project suddenly get on the fast track to production? And that's where a new interview Reynolds did with Yahoo Movies picks up:Ĭomic-book fans wanted a Deadpool spinoff for years, but it seemed like it was a dead proposition. As if that isn’t far away enough, Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has claimed in an interview with io9 that the long-awaited third movie won’t be slated for release until at least 2025. After all, this was a test made specifically for internal purposes. The creator of the character, Rob Liefeld, confirmed this footage was legit as Fox scrambled to take it down. The footage ended with a shout out to Tom Rothmans, who was head of Fox when the footage was created. It featured him popping around to some No Doubt music, killing a bunch of guys and directly addressing the camera throughout. If you don't remember, in the summer of 2014, a short clip of Reynolds as Deadpool leaked online. Update: There's now a list of women who are testing for a key role in the film we've got that below along with Reynolds' comments. Read more about the Deadpool movie below. What was the change? Was it a tamer rating? A lower budget? Maybe, but star Ryan Reynolds says the main reason is fan reaction to the leaked test footage. Then, almost out of the blue, the Deadpool movie got a greenlight and a Februrelease date. It got to a point where Reese and Wernick were openly hinting to people that they should read the script, which had leaked online. Director Tim Miller was hired, we heard rumblings here and there, but it felt dead. But for years after that, very little happened with the movie. They did, and the character even appeared on screen that year in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
The film is being helmed by Independence Day director Roland Emerich and is being released by Roadside Attractions.Stonewall centers. In 2009, rumors began to circulate that writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were going to pen a script for the film. A new trailer for the upcoming film Stonewall has hit the web. Talk of a Deadpool movie has been around since before the turn of the decade.