Deadpool or R.I.P.D. Will Star Ryan Reynolds

The fate of the Deadpool movie is as clear as your hand in front of your face.

With Ryan Reynolds suited up (motion-capture suited up, that is) for Green Lantern and any hypothetical sequels in the years to come (not to mention, the morsel of a chance his Hal Jordan bullshits onscreen next to Christian Bale's Batman and whomever is tapped as the next Superman), there's no way Warner Brothers will allow him to run off and play another costumed comic-book character for a rival studio. Why many refuse to accept that is beyond me. Blinded by the nerdgasm yet again, one can guess.

I09 caught up with Reynolds (while on the press rounds for the thriller Buried), and for the first time he didn't sound all too positive towards its prospects. In fact, it sounds like he's beginning to plant the seeds of the X-Men spin-off falling apart.

Basically the next open slot for Reynolds is after production of the action/thriller Safe House with Denzel Washington and that doesn't start filming until the early months of 2011. It's (supposedly) between the horror/action/buddy-cop R.I.P.D. for Universal and the afore-mentioned Merc with the Mouth:

"People sort of ask this question, like I have any say in the matter. They're both movies I'm interested in, they're both movies that are in fast-track development. But I never say I'm doing a movie until I break for lunch the first day. Because it's such a crapshoot, this industry. Everything's so fickle and so contingent on so many factors, aside from just an actor. And because it has an actor, and because these films have interested directors, it's obviously likely that they'll both get made. But I think it would be more likely that only one of them gets made with me."

Universal not too far back locked down director Robert Schwentke in for R.I.P.D. with a late summer 2011 shoot being targeted. Meanwhile, Deadpool has...a script, was flirting with Robert Rodriguez for a brief period to direct and that's about it. Don't worry, kids. This won't be the last time Reynolds is asked about Deadpool and we'll repeat this cycle all over again.