Deadpool

Director: Tim Miller Tim Miller

Overview

In this irreverent spin on the superhero genre, mercenary Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) agrees to participate in a top-secret experiment after learning that he has terminal cancer. When the procedure leaves him with advanced healing powers and a disfigured face, he reinvents himself as a wisecracking, spandex-clad antihero known as Deadpool, and seeks revenge on those responsible. Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, and Gina Carano co-star. Directed by Tim Miller. ~ Jack Rodgers

Product Details

Release Date:	04/24/2018
UPC:	0024543481690
Original Release:	2016
Rating:	R
Source:	20Th Century Fox
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Color]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Time:	1:48:00

Special Features

Audio Commentary by Ryan Reynolds and Screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Werwick; Audio Commentary by Director Tim Miller and Deadpool Co-Creator/Comics Artist Rob Liefeld; Deleted/Extended Scenes with Optional Audio Commentary by Director Tim Miller; Gag Reel; From Comics to Screen...to Screen; Deadpool's Fun Sack; Gallery (Concept Art, Costumes, Storyboards, Pre-vis, Stunt-vis)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ryan Reynolds	Wade Wilson/Deadpool
Morena Baccarin	Vanessa Carlysle / Copycat
Ed Skrein	Ajax
T.J. Miller	Weasel
Gina Carano	Angel Dust
Brianna Hildebrand	Ellie Phimister / Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Karan Soni	Dopinder
Michael Benyaer	Warlord
Stefan Kapicic	Voice of Colossus
Style Dayne	Jeremy (Pizza Guy)
Kyle Cassie	Gavin Merchant
Taylor Hickson	Meghan Orlovsky
Ayzee	Teen Girl #1
Naika Toussaint	Teen Girl #2
Randal Reeder	Buck
Isaac C. Singleton	Boothe
Justyn Shippelt	Arcade Ticket Taker
Donna Yamamoto	Oncologist
Jed Rees	Recruiter
Hugh Scott	David Cunningham
Cindy Piper	Chinatown Merchant
Emily Haine	Whisper Girlfriend
Amir Aatash	Whisper Boyfriend
Chad Riley	Pool Hall Goon
Paul Belsito	Fight Club Boss
Darcey Johnson	Garbage Truck Driver
Leslie Uggams	Blind Al
Kyle Rideout	Super Soldier #1
Jason Day	Super Soldier #2
Stan Lee	Strip Club DJ
Benjamin Wilkinson	No5 Orange Manager
Rachel Shaw	Strip Club Worker
Paul Lazenby	Flight Deck Guard
Rob Hayter	Bob

Technical Credits

Rhett Reese

Paul Wernick

Tim Miller	Director
Gordon W. Anderson	Sound Mixer
Atomic Fiction, Inc.	Animator
James Bitonti	Asst. Director
Nigel Bluck	Cinematographer
Jessica Cameron	Casting
Jessica Cameron	Casting
Corinne Clark	Casting
Julian Clarke	Editor
Mark Cohen	Camera Operator
Hannah d'Angerio	Casting
Hubert Daniel	Animator
Billy Dao	Animator
Digital Domain	Animator
Lauren Shuler Donner	Producer
Adam Dotson	Animator
Sean Haworth	Production Designer
Dean Heselden	Camera Operator
Bryan Hillestad	Animator
Tom Holkenborg	Score Composer
John Houlihan	Musical Direction/Supervision
Tanya Hudson	Makeup
Craig Humphries	Art Director
David Husby	Sound Mixer
Randy Hutniak	Set Decoration/Design
Jeremiah Izzard	Animator
Norbert Kaluza	Camera Operator
John J. Kelly	Executive Producer
Simon Kinberg	Producer
David Klohn	Asst. Director
Ronna Kress	Casting
Stan Lee	Executive Producer
Weta Digital Limited	Animator
Scott MacDonald	Camera Operator
Steve Maer	Camera Operator
Jonathan Komack Martin	Executive Producer
Robert Petrovicz	Production Manager
Christian Reese	Animator
Rhett Reese	Executive Producer,Screenwriter
Ryan Reynolds	Producer
Eddy Santob	Asst. Director
Ken Seng	Cinematographer
Aditya Sood	Executive Producer
Angus Strathie	Costumes/Costume Designer
Ian Tarasoff	Sound Mixer
Roger Vernon	Cinematographer
Thane Campbell Watkins	Associate Producer
Paul Wernick	Executive Producer,Screenwriter
Pete Whyte	Asst. Director
J. Michael Williams	Production Manager

Editorial Reviews

What's that sound? That repeated thumping noise accompanied by muffled shrieking? Could it be Dr. Fredric Wertham, author of the notorious anti-comics screed Seduction of the Innocent and philosophical father of the industry's self-censoring Comics Code, turning over and over in his grave as lustily as a pair of sneakers tumbling in a dryer? It must be because Deadpool, the psychotic, anarchic, pansexual, and compulsively wisecracking mercenary, has escaped the comics and is now running amok in his own movie. The plot -- don't worry if you don't pay attention to this paragraph, Deadpool will make sure to fill you in via a series of explanatory flashbacks woven around the scenes of bloody mayhem -- is a basic origin story. Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds, cheerfully walking on the superhero wild side after failing to make a splash in the box-office dud Green Lantern) was once regular mercenary Wade Wilson, until a cancer diagnosis forced him to make a devil's bargain with a mysterious company promising a cure. That's when "are-you-sure-you're-a-doctor?" Ajax (Ed Skrein) pumps him full of chemicals and subjects him to torture, reasoning that extreme stress will trigger Wilson's latent superpowers. It does, but at a terrible cost: His skin erupts in a melted pizza complexion that would make the average person look hideous and makes Ryan Reynolds go from two beers to five. He wants his old face restored, but now that he's clawed his way back from the brink of death, he sees everything as a cosmic joke, a Zen koan with a sick punch line. What is the sound of one hand clapping? Depends on what Deadpool is smacking it against after severing it from its owner. China gave a resounding "no thank you" to the R-rated cut of this movie, thus lumping Deadpool in with Facebook, jasmine flowers, younger siblings, and golf as things banned in the country. The violence is significant -- it's telling when a super-antihero chooses a red uniform to spare himself the hassle of laundering out bloodstains -- but what may have really made the censors go weak in the knees is the character's frank and not-really-hetero sexuality (this film is a first in its depiction of a superhero voluntarily engaging in a sex act usually only mentioned in Dan Savage's columns). But Marvel's decision to release it as-is represents a not-insignificant gesture of faith in the movie's quality, given Hollywood's increasing dependence on foreign viewers for boosting the global box office. (Guardians of the Galaxy was rumored to have been translated as "Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team" for Chinese-speaking audiences. I'm sure a similarly frank and literal translation of Deadpool would have turned the hair white on the giant poster of Mao in Tiananmen Square.) Marvel's faith was not unwarranted. This is a fun movie, a very adult delight for those of us able to appreciate entertainment that bridges the divide between fantasy and reality like the fourth-wall-busting Deadpool; it's a too-cool thrill ride filled with all of the saturated fats of shameless '80s trash -- gratuitous nudity, giddy carnage, jokes in so-bad-it's-good taste -- and it's as satisfying as a bacon double cheeseburger with a side of crack. The action sequences have the fierce, chaotic energy of a mosh pit, Reynolds brings warmth to a character whose grinning sociopathy is on par with the Joker (but whose heart is in the right place), and the screenplay by Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick has a filthy (and self-aware) wit that brings loud guffaws to the opening credits and never loses steam. Deadpool is the rare comic-book movie that isn't suffocating under the weight of its own self-importance, and that alone is reason to recommend it. Oh, and stay after the credits -- Deadpool would want it that way.

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