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I get lost on iTunes sometimes. You know when you find something you really like and then it says, 'These listeners also bought...?' I'll keep following the trail until I've bankrupted my entire family and I'm buying, like, Wham! B-sides.
- Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds talks about Deadpool
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:25 AM (PDT)
We heard plenty of rumors about Ryan Reynolds playing The Flash, but in a recent interview, Ryan said he would [also] like to play Deadpool. For those who don't know who this character is, Deadpool has been portrayed as a mercenary, an anti-hero and even a villain.

“I’ve always wanted to do ‘Deadpool,’ ” he enthused, his voice taking on the air of unbridled geek excitement. “I think I would forgo anything to play it in some incarnation.”

The “Merc With a Mouth,” Wilson is a sarcastic, scheming hero known for his wisecracks and black humor. In other words, a perfect fit for the acerbic Reynolds.

“He’s a derivative of the Weapons X program,” Reynolds explained of the character’s origins (it’s the same program, incidentally, that plays so prominently in the backstory of Wolverine). “They turned him into a puddle and shipped him off. Just left him for dead. But he came back with all these mutant powers. And he’s pissed off — in a full-fledged, I’m gonna get you way.”

Sounds like a pretty cool mix of the Punisher and Wolverine. Problem is, Reynolds acknowledged, Wilson also combines just about every noncommercial aspect of superheroes into one tidy package.

“It’s a very tricky character to do,” Reynolds sighed. “It’s hard R. It’s ambiguous whether he’s good or bad. He’s a mercenary. This is all to say nothing of the fact that his face is made entirely of scar tissue.

“These are huge issues,” the 30-year-old actor deadpanned. “Hopefully, there’ll be [somebody] who has the balls to go there and make a really authentic, decent ‘Deadpool’ movie.”

It seems our Ryan really would like to play in a comic book movie. Good luck to him!

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