Kevin Feige Nails Why Deadpool Works

 

Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige dropped a whole lot of information, on everything from Doctor Strange to its drive to include female filmmakers going forward but some of his most excitingly on-the-money comments came while discussing Deadpool. 

According Feige audiences probably won’t get an R-rated Marvel Cinematic Universe entry, at least not any time in the near future and he follows it by explaining what that rival studio’s move entirely missed.

Feige said “No, we’ve not had any specific conversations about that. And that is only part of the takeaway from Deadpool. The thing that Deadpool shows is, when you present something unique to an audience, they will respond to it. When you present something as popular as a superhero character, in a different and unique and crazy way as they did in Deadpool, it demands attention and audiences went to it. They pulled it off. Tim Miller did a tremendous job. The other secret, and why it’s still a secret, I don’t know, but they just took what Deadpool is in the comics. He breaks the fourth wall. He talks into the camera. He doesn’t give a sh*t about any of the other heroes. He doesn’t take anything seriously. All of that is what made Deadpool so popular in the comics. Tim and his writers and Ryan Reynolds were able to get that and even magnify that up on the big screen. We’ve always said if there’s any “secret” it’s respect the source material, understand the source material and then, any adaptation you make from the source material should be done only to enhance whatever the original pure spirit of the source material was. Deadpool hit on all cylinders with that