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Deadpool: James Cameron and David Fincher helped get film made, reveals co-writer

"You could not find two gentlemen who have better taste in what should become a movie"

Jacob Stolworthy
Friday 10 June 2016 10:02 BST
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Officially one of the year's biggest films so far, Deadpool made a splash with critics and commercial audiences alike upon its release, Ryan Reynolds' second stab at the masked mutant earning him the franchise he's always deserved.

While it was director Tim Miller alongside writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who helped steer the film to success, it's been revealed that two unlikely filmmakers actually helped 20th Century Fox in its decision to throw their weight behind the 18-certificate film: David Fincher and James Cameron.

“They read the script each of them at two independent key moments during the script’s development,” co-writeR Reese explained to IGN.

“And each one of them was kind enough to go to 20th Century Fox and essentially throw in their good word just saying ‘Hey, what are you guys doing with Deadpool? You should be making this.'

Miller elaborated:

“Listen - the industry listens to tastemakers and you could not find two gentlemen who have better taste in what should become a movie or be made into a movie and so I just thought that maybe they could help push the boulder up the hill a little bit, which they kindly did.”

Cameron is currently hard at work on his upcoming Avatar films - four in total - while Fincher will next be directing episodes of new FBI crime series Mindhunter which will premiere in 2017.

Miller, Reese and Wernick will all be returning for the recently confirmed Deadpool sequel which will, of course, star Reynolds.

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