‘Deadpool 2’ Officially Confirmed; Tim Miller Returning To Direct
By Angie Han/April 14, 2016 3:00 pm EST
No surprise, then, that 20th Century Fox are eager to stay on the good side of the Merc with a Mouth. At CinemaCon today, the studio officially confirmed what we already basically knew: that a Deadpool 2 is on the way.
The first Deadpool took years of negotiation and on-again, off-again development to get off the ground. Reynolds’ first outing as the mutant antihero, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, hadn’t made the best impression, and the studio was understandably reluctant to give him his own movie. But just when all hope seemed lost, a bit of leaked test footage gave the project the shot in the arm it needed. Fox’s gamble paid off, and Deadpool 2 thankfully hasn’t had to rely on any such trickery (or luck) to get a greenlight.
Details on what, exactly, the second movie will be about are still scarce. It seems a safe bet Cable will be involved in some fashion – while Miller has cautioned that it’s “genuinely premature” to say one way or the other, he’s also acknowledged that “if we don’t put Cable in Deadpool 2 I think we’ll be run out of town on a rail,” and Stephen Lang has already begun campaigning for the role. And the screenwriters have said they won’t be going too much bigger for the sequel, which is probably for the best.
