Robert Rodiguez has officially been offered the directors chair for Fox’s Deadpool adaptation. Rodriguez, the director of such pulpy fare as Sin City and Grindhouse’s Planet Terror, seems like a natural choice to bring the fourth-wall breaking superhero to the big screen.
Deadpool has been put on the back burner lately due to star Ryan Reynolds’ involvement in Green Lantern, but Fox’s move towards Rodriguez indicates that the ball is going to start rolling soon on production. Hopefully, the choice of Rodriguez as director also implies that Fox won’t be afraid to make an R film out of this one. Rodriguez is known for not shying away from violence, or the R ratings that follow. My common sense is tingling that a kid-friendly PG-13 version of Deadpool would really be missing the point of the character’s appeal.
The film is being scripted by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick of Zombieland and is due out in 2011, with or without Rodriguez. But I’m hoping “with.”
Source: Cinema Blend
