Academy Award Nominee Tim Miller Directs "Deadpool"
Finally a "Deadpool" movie.
Make no mistake about
it, the term first-time director may project an impression of being
inexperienced, yet despite the fact that Tim Miller’s first feature film is
“Deadpool,” his unique approach in filmmaking makes him acutely ready to helm
this year’s hotly anticipated superhero movie starring Ryan Reynolds in the
titular role.
Tim Miller is already
an Academy Award nominee for his previous work in the movie “Gopher Broke” nominated
for the Best Animated Short Film. Miller
is also the co-founder of Blur Studio, which specializes in visual effects and
animation for the motion picture and videogame industries.
Moreover, his
experience and work in the fantastic title sequences and breakthrough CG action
shots for films such as the highly-acclaimed “The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo”
by David Fincher, “Thor: The Dark World” and Taylor’s Marvel adaptations make
Miller bring his own kind of storytelling and action into the movie “Deadpool”
adapted from the Marvel Comics created in 1991 by Fabian Nicieza and Rob
Liefeld.
“Deadpool” which also
stars Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano, TJ Miller and Ed Skrein tells the origin of
Wade Wilson (Reynolds), whose terminal cancer is ‘cured’ by the same Weapon X
program that created Wolverine, leaving him permanently disfigured, but
impervious to pain and able to regenerate from his wounds. A pop culture-literate antihero different
amongst comic book characters, “Deadpool” have been dubbed as ‘The Merc with a
Mouth” who can break the fourth wall and flip superhero conventions in their
head.
Miller recalls that a
(20th Century) Fox executive who’d been working on the “X-Men: First
Class” movie had seen his work on a piece he had done for a DC universe
project, “He thought X-Men: First Class”
could use some help with working out the detailed action choreography, so I was
brought on to help with that. He was like, “You understand superheroes and how
they fight each other. He came down and
we met, and by the end of that meeting he said, “You know, I think you should
really be directing your own film. You’re a first-timer so I can’t get you on
anything big, but we have this other film… Deadpool. Are you interested?” I’d
read the script already and I thought it was great, so I jumped at the chance.
And then there were a whole series of hurdles to jump over, to make sure Ryan
liked me, to make sure [the producer] Lauren Shuler Donner liked me, to make
sure I wasn’t some kind of crazy weirdo,” shares Miller.
Tim Miller’s “Deadpool”
movie features endless references to Reynolds’ own dalliances with the
superhero universe, and most especially his lead role in “Green Lantern.”
Suffice to say, Wade Wilson isn’t a fan. “Please don’t make the super-suit green,”
he tells the facility scientists. “Or animated.” When Fox showed off a teaser
for the film at Comic-Con, the studio poked fun at their own first go at the
character. “From the studio that inexplicably sewed his mouth shut the first
time, comes five-time Academy Award viewer Ryan Reynolds…”
A different kind, in
fact, not-the-hero-you’re-expecting saves the day when “Deadpool” opens
February 10 in Philippine cinemas from 20th Century Fox to be
distributed by Warner Bros.
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