What roles would Deadpool and the X-Men play in future MCU movies?
But Disney’s acquisition of Fox’s movie and TV departments, which eventually resulted in the studio being renamed “20th Century Pictures,” complicated everything. Had Fox not been bought by Disney, a process which began in late 2017 and culminated in early 2019, there’d probably already be a Deadpool 3 (or X-Force) in development. The two Deadpool movies earned a combined $1.568 billion worldwide on a combined budget of $168 million. It would eventually earn $324 million domestic (counting $6 million earned by a PG-13 version titled Once Upon a Deadpool) and $785 million worldwide (again, counting $44 million earned, including $24 million in China, by the PG-13 cut). With decent reviews and a strong hook as a vulgar, blood-soaked, R-rated romcom superhero lark (with 99% of its violence directed at the bad guys), the film was a singular sensation beyond just being an X-Men flick or being a Marvel Comics adaptation.ĭavid Leitch’s $110 million-budgeted Deadpool 2 opened with solid reviews and decent buzz in May of 2018 with a $128 million domestic debut. It passed the cumes of Guardians of the Galaxy ($333 million domestic and $773 million worldwide), meaning it had earned, at the time, more than any non-Tony Stark MCU movie ever. Heck, the film earned $363 million domestic (from a $132 million Fri-Sun/$152 million Fri-Mon President’s Day launch) and $783 million worldwide, becoming (at the time) the biggest R-rated movie ever worldwide. While Tim Miller’s $58 million-budgeted Deadpool was technically a spin-off from the Fox X-Men franchise, with Reynolds reprising the role he first played in X-Men Origins: Wolverine seven years earlier, the film proved more popular than any X-Men movie. Marvel doesn’t need the character, but Disney could really use a hit from their Fox IP. At this point, Disney might want to just make a non-MCU Deadpool sequel. Some of the mystery is related to how Kevin Feige plans to include X-Men-related mutants into the MCU, and how Deadpool might fit in. In it, Reynolds discusses that he has little idea when, if or how Deadpool 3 will happen. Since the print media tends to plan far in advance, the Total Film cover story already dropped. It was to be one of the big original flicks of the summer. The film, starring Ryan Reynolds as a random video game non-playable-character who becomes sentient, will now (hopefully) open on December 11.
Neuromancer has long been a target for adaptation, but has never made it before cameras: Torque director Joseph Kahn was in line to direct in 2007, while Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali was later attached to the project.Today was supposed to be the “two months-out” date for Free Guy, which was scheduled to open domestically on July 3. The novel helped establish Gibson as one of the genre’s best writers, and has been particularly influential for not only setting the tone of gritty, cyberpunk dystopias, but also popularizing the term “cyberspace” itself. Poisoned by a former employer, Case finds himself unable to enter the novel’s virtual world, known as the “Matrix.” But then an ex-military officer approaches him with an offer he can’t refuse: hack a massive AI in orbit, and he’ll cure Case. Gibson published Neuromance r in 1984, which follows a former hacker named Henry Dorsett Case, who lives in Chiba City, Japan. (Miller has also been attached to a potential reboot of James Cameron’s Terminator franchise, but it’s not clear when or if that will happen.) Kinberg, on the other hand, is a go-to favorite for Fox, having written and overseen the latest run of X-Men films. Neuromancer is a famously gritty cyberpunk thriller, and Miller’s direction with Deadpool shows that he’s certainly capable of delivering the sort of stylistic take Gibson’s world deserves. Miller and Kinberg seems like an ideal pairing to take on the film. According to Deadline, Deadpool director Tim Miller is now signed to direct a film adaptation for Fox, with X-Men franchise architect Simon Kinberg set to produce. William Gibson’s Neuromancer is one of the best-known works of cyberpunk, and has helped influence countless films, from The Matrix to Ghost in the Shell.