It looks like FOX is ready to erase the bad buzz generated from Fantastic Four already. Producer Simon Kinberg talked with Collider and had nothing but great things to say about the upcoming Deadpool movie:
“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.”
He added:
“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.”
He wouldn’t commit to Cable, however:
“It’s certainly come up because he’s such a big character in the world. And it’s a character that I’ve always wanted to do in one form or another, we talked about Cable actually in Days of Future Past at one point. But yeah we’re in such the early stages of sequel talk it would be genuinely premature for me to say whether or not he was gonna be in it.”
In addition to planning a Deadpool sequel, Kinberg says Fox is looking to connect the X-Men universe:
“The idea is that we’ve sort of reset the timeline after Days of Future Past in some ways, and if not erased, certainly allowed for change from X1, ’2, 3, everything from Days of Future Past forward, 1973, everything we set now becomes canon,” he tells MTV. “So the Gambit movie, the Deadpool movie, will exist in a world that acknowledges whatever happened in Days of Future Pastand moving forward. Doesn’t mean they’ll always interact with those characters, obviously, it’s not like every movie has all the characters, but they all have to exist within the same rules.“There will be interplay between different characters in different movies.”
So, what should we call this? The Fox Marvel Cinematic Universe? The FMCU? While it’d be really cool to see these characters in the MCU, you have to wonder if Marvel would have the guts to make a hard R-rated Deadpool film. If Fox is doing anything right, it appears to be Deadpool. I guess we’ll see how this all plays out.
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