Well if Rob Liefeld Said it, It MUST Be True!

I realize that 20^th Century Fox will now churn out as many X-Men related films as long as they make money as to avoid the property going to their (new) owner Disney. But after the announcement that Ryan Reynolds (who played Deadpool in the ill-received Wolverine spin-off and lined up to headline his own solo film) was to play the Green Lantern for Warner Brothers, most of us rightfully assumed that was it for seeing Wade Wilson again.

Well, his creator Rod Liefeld (via his Twitter account) claims that isn’t the case and Deadpool is still headed our way according to his updates:

“Great Deadpool movie meeting! Lauren Schuler Donner and her team are headed in the right direction!”

“Deadpool movie checklist- DP in costume-check! Breaking 4th wall-check! Loads of killing-double check!”

“Donner Company is on top of making the Deadpool movie that fans want. They get it. He’s funny, tortured, clever, a bastard and mucho action!”

Sorry, but this whole “Reynolds will headline two comic-book franchises at the same time” thing is a hard pill to swallow. Studios don’t tend to like “sharing” their leading man with one another – especially companies with the kind of constant rivalry like DC and Marvel.

To be fair, it’s not like Liefeld is some press-whoring, lie-spreading fucktard to my knowledge (read: Mark Millar). So I’ll just be nice and take him at his word. Until he's been proven otherwise.