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None of this would have been possible had X-Men Origins: Wolverine had offered a more source-faithful version of Wade Wilson the first time out.Įither there wouldn't have been as much of a drive for a spin-off movie and because said spin-off movie would have been merely the second time seeing Ryan Reynolds as a masked and fourth-wall-breaking "Merc with the Mouth" instead of the first time. And it was received as the glorious promise fulfilled from the ashes of X-Men Origins: Wolverine as well as the first time the character had been portrayed successfully on screen. It was sold as Ryan Reynolds's redemption after (regardless of his actual blame) botching the character and botching Green Lantern several years earlier. But, without taking anything away from the other reasons for its success, one of the keys was how it was sold in the press and by the media. Now for the record, an exceedingly well-marketed and crowd-pleasing Deadpool movie was always going to be a solid hit, especially at a cost of just $58 million to produce. It also meant that this was the first time seeing the popular character (and he is quite popular in the world of comic books and geek culture) portrayed in a live action feature both by the perfect actor and in a film that was quite faithful in tone and spirit to the Rob Liefeld character. Green Lantern failure, played into a core redeem-and-redempt narrative. The notion of Ryan Reynolds getting his shot to redeem his earlier failings, as well as prove that he could successfully headline a superhero movie after the Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. It would have merely been the second time audiences got to see a faithful interpretation of the character in a 20th Century Fox-produced comic book superhero movie. Ryan Reynolds was pretty spot-on casting, but his glorified cameo featured Wade Wilson unmasked for the first chunk of his screen time and horribly mutated/deformed (with the famously chatty anti-hero's lips sewn shut to boot) in his second major appearance in the film's action climax.įans were appalled, and Ryan Reynolds (and related parties) spent the next several years trying to get a source-faithful Deadpool movie off the ground. But here's the rub: Had Deadpool been treated better back in 2009, this new Deadpool movie would not have been as big of a deal for fans. And the reason that was something of a big deal was that Gavin Hood's X-Men Origins: Wolverine did a relatively poor job portraying the character back in summer 2009. Part of the appeal of the Tim Miller film was the chance for fans (and casual audience members) to see the so-called Merc with the Mouth in a source-accurate live action representation. Absent the ability to position Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen as a fierce and bow-wielding reaction to Kristen Stewart's Bella Swan in the pop culture dialogue, The Hunger Games would not have been as big as it was. Yes, it was different from everything else in the marketplace (a point which also applies to Deadpool, but that's for another day), but it also had the advantage of being sold/perceived as an empowering, feminist answer to the popular notions regarding Twilight Saga's gender politics and somewhat passive heroine. Hey, it's almost like this franchise had been saved! (sorry, inside joke).Īs I've discussed before, one of the big reasons why The Hunger Games broke out as it did in March of 2012 was that it was able to be held up in the media) as the anti- Twilight. The positive reception of The Force Awakens was rooted partially (but not entirely) in the idea that the franchise had been redeemed or salvaged. A sequel to Return of the Jedi would have been a huge smash under almost any circumstance, but a part of the film's reception by critics and fans was that it redeemed/saved the franchise after George Lucas's underwhelming prequels a generation earlier. Star Wars 7 is a perfect example of said circumstance. If you recognize that quote, it's the first line of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It's the notion that one film is a response to another film or existing as something of a "This will begin to make things right" entry in an existing franchise.
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