Zombieland scribes go to Deadpool
Scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are jumping from flesh eaters to a foul mouth mercenary as they sign on to pen the script for the Deadpool spinoff movie. Ryan Reynolds is cast back on to reprise his role as Deadpool after his first stint with the role in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This spinoff got greenlit after the weekend numbers came in for the prequel X-Men film, which is not a huge surprise given how many different kinds of movies spawn off of one success.
There is no timetable on the Marvel property, though Reynolds has a window after wrapping the “Green Lantern” this summer (Variety). Producing is Lauren Shuler Donner with Marvel Enterprises and Twentieth Century Fox attached to the project. Fox has quite a few projects on their plate with Marvel at the moment, the biggest of that includes the Bryan Singer helming X-Men: First Class.
