When it comes to Comic Con, no one wants a bummer. So when someone asks Robert Rodriguez whether there’s going to be a sequel to “Predators” his reaction is along the lines of “of course!” and “the next one will have a bigger budget!” And when they ask if he’ll direct it, he says, “Possibly, after ‘Sin City 2.'” So yeah, Rodriguez knows how to politick this shit – someone ask him if another “From Dusk Till Dawn” is happening so you can get a “maybe.”
Rodriguez had been offered the director’s chair for a “Deadpool” movie back in June, though his silence on the matter speaks for itself. Fox has been eager to spin the popular fringe character into his own movie following his appearance in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” where the loquacious mutant appeared for ten minutes, was rendered mute, shot lasers and was beheaded. No typos there, people.
Ryan Reynolds remains attached to play the masked killer, and according to Rodriguez, not only did he have input on the current script from Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (“Zombieland”) but he actually met with Rodriguez to convince him this was a project worth taking on. Speaking to MTV, Rodriguez says,”They sent me a script to read, [but] I’ve been really swamped with this other stuff. I’ve not decided whether … anything I do would be after ‘Spy Kids’ — that gives some breathing room. So whether or not I would help develop or not is the question right now.”
If we were to guess, if Rodriguez isn’t interested in directing, then Fox would ask him to godfather the film to the screen in the same vein as the successful (but inexpensive) “Predators” and a Troublemaker Studios-approved helmer would come aboard and play nice with the studio. Which seems fitting, as this character isn’t built for a mega-blockbuster, but a gritty, fringe-y, silly mid-budget diversion that someone like Rodriguez edits in his garage. But with this coming out in the wake of Reynolds’ coming “Green Lantern,” we’ll bet Fox wants to go with the $200 million worldwide expectations which seem to be the default settings for all comic book adaptations as they sink money hand over fist into this production.
While Rodriguez gears up to shoot “Spy Kids: Armageddon” this summer, “Deadpool” remains a project that some even doubt might happen, though someone at Fox appears to be taking initiative on a project most are unsure about seeing. Don’t tell that to Fine Line Kreative, who, unsolicited, appear to have been letting their own fake “Deadpool” posters litter the streets of New York City. Hey, someone’s excited.
