Ryan Reynolds loves the script for the Deadpool movie because it’s not like any other superhero scenario: “It’s a nasty piece of work. It’s just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like Barfly if it were a superhero movie. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person.  I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that.”

The script for the “merc with a mouth” movie was written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the duo that wrote the highly underrated horror comedy Zombieland.  According to the L.A. Times’ Hero Complex blog, Fox is planning to release the Deadpool movie in 2012, but plenty of scheduling problems remain to be ironed out both for the film’s star and the studio’s preferred director Robert Rodriguez (see “Rodriguez to Helm Deadpool?”).

But one thing appears clearly evident from Reynolds’ remarks to The Times’ Geoff Boucher, the star of the Green Lantern movie clearly relishes a chance to tackle the morally ambiguous Deadpool: “With Deadpool, early on you have to establish that moral flexibility. There’s a gamble to it — you’re going to lose a few people right at the beginning but you take the gamble and know that eventually you’re going to win them back. You won’t lose the hard-core fans of the character, they already know who he is. We have to play to a broader audience than that. As an actor you have to be willing to do something like … back in Vancouver we used to call it a [nasty] burger. ’You gotta eat the [nasty] burger to get to the cookies.’”