Two new images have been revealed form the upcoming Deadpool film. The first image depicts titular Merc with a Mouth along side his new cohort Negasonic Teenage Warhead. At a first glance there seem little to this image but upon closer inspection we can infer several details from the image. The first thing that is noticeable is the taxi, the side of the taxi is scraped and dented, clear evidence that our “hero” (up for debate) has just been is a car chase. Second is the bullet and knife holes in Deadpool’s suit (I guess the red does stop the bad guys from seeing you bleed), so what ever just happened to Wade you can bet the other guys are worse off. And the final thing of note is the freeway in the back ground. Now, if you been following this film odds are you seen plenty of images hinting to a massive freeway action set piece. Here it is:
The second image is Deadpool sitting on the edge of a over head freeway with his drawing and cassette player. You’ll recognise this as a recreation of the “leaked” test footage from last year that is most likely the sole reason this film even got the green light. In the footage Deadpool in true slapstick fashion killed a small convoy of black clad goons. Deadpool even shows the last guy a crayon drawing he made earlier of him being decapitated, which is what I bet that drawing is. But rather than just recreating the footage I believe that the version of this scene in the full film will be a much grander spectacle of blood and chaos.
BEWARE POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!! (minor)
Previous photos released have shown trashed cars, massive fires and stuntman/actor Andre Tricoteux in a motion capture suit as the new Colossus. Along with the first image released of Negasonic Teenage Warhead (I’m just going to call her NTW) showing her and Deadpool siting by an overturned car it’s could be easy to assume that this freeway action scene could be how Deadpool meets his young sidekick. Perhaps he is rescuing her from shady government officials, anti-mutant extremists or mutant terrorist group recruiters that won’t take no for an answer? In the comics NTW has psychic powers that include Telepathy and Precognition, this would put her on the higher end of the power spectrum in the X-Men universe. It’s possible that the villain of the film wants her so they can use her as a weapon, similar to Rogue in the first film. It could be that the film is looking capture that relationship seen between Rogue and Wolverine with these NTW and Deadpool. We’ve been told Hugh Jackman will part from the franchise after Wolverine 3, perhaps Fox is grooming Deadpool to become his spiritual successor as the franchise number one badass. As for Anna Paquin well since she was mostly cut from X-Men Days of Future Past (although the new cut of the film with her scenes restored has been released) it’s hard to say if she’ll return for future instalments. I however have my own theory about NTW that I shall keep to my chest until closer to the film’s release date (mainly because I just thought of it while writing this article and need to think it over more). SPOILERS END HERE!
It looks like Fox has finally got the reins back on the X-Men franchise it’s started taking risks with its properties and stopped being afraid of the more comic book aspects of Superhero films. Well at least they have a plan with X-Men, Fantastic Four or Fant4stic that reminds to be seen?
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