“We’re very, very cognizant about making sure that Deadpool is above all a Deadpool movie.”
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]ith X-Men: Apocalypse ending in a way that would allow for 20th Century Fox to essentially start a brand new storyline that begins with a New Mutants it appears that the job of uniting the X-Men completely with Deadpool to create the X-Force has fallen onto the shoulders of Deadpool 2. However, Deadpool 2 won’t revolve primarily around X-Force and in an interview Collider‘s Steve Weintraub sat down with Deadpool 2 writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to discuss what we can expect from the Merc with a Mouth’s second film.
Rhett Reese: There is a responsibility we have to the X-Force universe, and I do think we will not disappoint the fans going into Deadpool 2 and then setting up X-Force and beyond.
Paul Wernick: We never want to let the tail wag the dog. We want to tell the best Deadpool story we can. But I do think we have a responsibility to think about a larger universe in the way that Marvel does and start to put pieces in place. Some of these movies feel overstuffed and almost choking with the need to set up eighteen different things that pay off down the road, and we want to avoid that responsibility to the extent that it hurts us. We want to hint at things, we want to plan some characters, and we want to make some nods, but we’re very, very cognizant about making sure that Deadpool is above all a Deadpool movie.
Rhett Reese: Its purpose is not to set up X-Force. It will likely set up X-Force, but the drive of the movie won’t be our eyes on Movie 3.
This is really good news considering fans and Ryan Reynolds have been repeatedly stressing that the next step for Deadpool would be to introduce the X-Force. Because of this, many fans were concerned that Deadpool’s second film would focus too much on the X-Force and less on Deadpool himself. However, it is clear that writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are making sure that this film is solely about Deadpool and will lay down the groundwork for a standalone X-Force film.
