There are many hits and misses in Hollywood's long list of character castings, but producer Simon Kinberg believes they've hit the jackpot when they gave the role of Wade Wilson, better known as Deadpool to actor Ryan Reynolds.
"I've worked on a lot of movies, comic book any otherwise, and I don't know that I've ever seen an actor as perfectly suited to a part as Ryan is to Deadpool," he told Collider during an interview. "It's just something that comes so naturally to him. It's one of the reasons why he creates so many of those viral pieces, because I think he has so much fun being Deadpool that he's Deadpool on and off set."
Kinberg added that Reynolds always brings an element of fun into the set of "Deadpool," and it really works given the "radical-ness" of the movie.
"The fun of the movie, the sort of mischief of the movie-that would be the best word is 'mischief'-is something that translates to the way the movie was made too," he said. "There was so much freedom to making the movie, I think because the studio understood that it has to be a radical film, a hard-R, and it has to satisfy the core fans, it just was allowed to be in all the best ways a weirder film than pretty much any other movie a studio is gonna release."
The producer said that fans should expect a really "radical" movie - in tone, form, and level of violence. He even said that the movie is different not just from any other comic book movie, but also from any other action movie out there right now.
Kinberg said that one of the things they highlighted in the movie is Wilson's love story with Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) from the comics, and they hope to delve deeper into their relationship in the sequels.
"It's certainly the hope, and there is conversation about what the idea would be and perhaps which characters we would bring in to a sequel," said Kinberg. "The writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, were a really integral part of the process."
For now, Kinberg hopes that "Deadpool" will be a success so that they can continue working on movies like that in the future.
"I do think there's a lot more story to tell," he said. "It'd be fun to keep making these movies because it doesn't feel like we'll run out of juice."
