At this point, Ryan Reynolds has starred in three superhero films, and it can be argued that none of them amounted to all that much. While Blade: Trinity is pretty damn good in my opinion, the box office for it was the weakest. X-men Origins: Wolverine was atrocious, and featured Reynolds as the worst version of Deadpool ever, nearly ruining the character for good. And of course there's that emerald stink pot Green Lantern, one of the biggest flops of 2011. Reynolds could be forgiven for not wanting any part of superheroes for awhile, but he's still interested in a solo Deadpool film, while also shrugging off the possibility of joining a Green Lantern sequel or Justice League.
Empire spoke to him during press for The Croods, and the conversation inevitably turned to the idea of Reynolds playing Green Lantern again in any capacity. He doesn't sound the least bit interested, but could change his mind with the right director...
Reynolds: "I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly. That world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with. So at this point I have very little interest in joining that kind of world. [A] great script and a good director can always turn that around. I believe that Joss Whedon is the guy that just nails it and Christopher Nolan obviously nails it. So if they were gonna do it like that, it would be an interesting thing to do."
As for Deadpool, the popular Merc-with-a Mouth was badly mishandled in Wolverine's solo film, which is why fans were so hyped when talk of a spinoff started years ago. While directors have come and gone, with Tim Miller currently attached, the R-rated and extremely violent script by the writers of Zombieland has remained in place. Reynolds clearly has hopes of the film happening, even as he runs down a list of reasons why it never will...
Reynolds: "I love Deadpool and there is a script that’s in development. But it’s so, so far into the R-rated zone… it’s a nearly NC-17 world and I just don’t know if the studio would ever risk their reputation doing it. We’ve been developing it and we would never wanna do it unless you could it that R-rated way, so…You could do it for a pittance compared to the modern sort of epic scale superhero movies, but it’s about a guy who knows he’s in a movie and knows he’s in a comic book who is deeply mentally disturbed and hyper violent. And that’s tough to get by a studio."
One other reason is that Deadpool's constant "breaking of the fourth wall" mostly consists of him insulting the Wolverine film, specifically his awful appearance in it....
Reynolds: "The script is one rewrite away from Deadpool jumping across the desk at the studio executive and attacking him... In the current iteration of the script, it doesn’t address Wolverine – though it does address Deadpool’s appearance in 'Wolverine'. Deadpool was not happy with Deadpool in Wolverine. He has a sort of a WTF!? moment with that."
Wha!? You mean the studio doesn't want to spend millions of dollars to pay for their own public humiliation? That's crazy! Oh well. Reynolds isn't done with comic book movies, though. He'll appear in R.I.P.D. opposite Jeff Bridges later this year.
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