Last time we talked about Ryan Reynolds, we were bemoaning the possibility that somehow one of the "guys" from Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place managed to get himself engaged to Scarlett Johansson. This apparently turned out to be untrue, but our scoffing at Mr. Reynolds' worthiness still caused readers shinynewmachine and thinkywritey to chime in...
...or at least this?
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January 23, 2008 11:03 AM
Well, today's comic book movie casting news goes out to you two chimer-inners. Perhaps you'd be interested to know that you can expect to see a presumably-pumped Mr. Reynolds fighting an equally-pumped-and-likely-shirtless Hugh Jackman in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (They've been forced to go back to the beginnings of those X-Men characters, you see, since Brett Ratner completely fucked up the group franchise.) Mr. Pizza Place, er, Reynolds will be playing the villain Deadpool, who has similar healing abilities to Wolverine, though with that full body costume, he is decidedly lacking in the sideburn-and-shirtlessness department. No doubt they'll figure out some way around that.
You're welcome, ladies and/or gentlemen. (We're guessing ladies.)
UPDATE: Actually, we're seeing implications that this will be a short, possibly one scene, appearance leading to a spin-off movie of Reynolds/Deadpool's own rather than a full "I will KILL YOU, WOLVERINE!!!" type role. Sorry to get your hopes up!