Extra, Extra!: Deadpool's New Threads

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It's been an interesting road to production, to say the least, but it finally looks like Deadpool is getting the cinematic treatment he deserves.  With Days of Future Past resetting Fox's X-Men franchise of all of its past mistakes, Deadpool is free to come out and play in his true form.  And this last week, Ryan Reynolds - who perplexingly is still attached to the project - showed off his full costume in true Deadpool style.

Clearly Fox has learned its lesson after their mistreatment of the character in X-Men Origins, bringing him back to his roots as the hilariously non-traditional "merc with a mouth" whose sometimes unhealthy relationship with the X-Men as a whole - and Wolverine in particular - is the source of all kinds of zany antics.  Even though I will still defend my love fondness for Origins, I can't defend its absurd non-fidelity to its source material.

The costume looks fantastic, and the tone of the picture (not to mention the leaked test footage from a while back) makes them appear to be going in quite the opposite direction: extreme fidelity to the comics and Deadpool's off-the-wall character quirks.  How a one-note character like Deadpool will manage to stay fresh over the course of an entire movie remains a pretty big question in my mind, but I have no problem shelling out $10 a ticket to find out the answer to it.

So what are your thoughts on the new Deadpool movie?  Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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