~Matt Key
In an interview with GQ Magazine, Ryan Reynolds talked about Deadpool, both as a character and a concept, and why he believes the Marvel film, out from Fox Studios in line with their X-Men films, will work. It mostly comes out of the meta-narrative nature of the character, his commentary to the audience based on his 4th wall-breaking awareness that he is a character in a comic book.
As such, we can only imagine that he is somewhat aware that he is a character in a movie and his powers are ridiculous.
As he said in his interview. “The meta aspect is very important. So I think Deadpool’s coming along at the right time, because it’s also speaking to that generation and that group of people that have seen them all, seen all these comic-book films and enjoyed them all to varying degrees of success. But I think it’s speaking to them as though the guy in that red suit is one of them, to some degree.”
More or less, in a world where a major movie studio can’t hope to exist without a major summertime superhero tentpole, Ryan Reynolds believes that Deadpool is the answer to possible superhero fatigue.
Beyond it being a self-aware meta film, it’s also rated-R, the first superhero film to do so since Blade and Kick-Ass, but certainly the first film to do so within an extended universe of films.
“It’s fun. That’s also why the film is budgeted the way it’s budgeted, is released the way it’s released, is allowed to be rated R, kind of all these things. Because for the studio, it’s actually relatively low-risk.”
Traditionally, Rated-R films don’t make as much money as more family friendly fare. This is due, mostly, to a wider-audience. Rated-R films garner one to two tickets at a time, where a family film is typically at least three to four tickets. They just make more at the box office, so spending $100M on a budget for a film unlikely to recoup those costs doesn’t make sense.
However, $50M on a Rated-R superhero film — that could end up being an okay investment.
Hopefully, it ends up being one of the smartest things Fox has ever done and we get a hundred more Deadpool films.
And a TV show.
And a webseries.
And some new technology that beams Deadpool stories directly into our dreams.
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