Rob Liefeld is Pumped for the Deadpool Movie!

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Rob Liefeld is Pumped for the Deadpool Movie!

Source:Twitter, Edward Douglas

September 22, 2009

When it comes to outspoken comic creators, you can't really top Rob Liefeld--okay, maybe Mark Millar--the young artist who came to fame in the early '90s on hot Marvel books like "The New Mutants," in which he created popular characters like Cable, Deadpool, Domino and others before departing Marvel to form Image Comics.

Since his creation Deadpool was introduced in X-Men Origins: Wolverine earlier this year, Liefeld has been a great cheerleader for the movie, having returned to Marvel Comics in recent years to revive some of his characters there.

According to Liefeld on Twitter, he met with Lauren Schuler Donner and her team earlier today to discuss the direction for the planned Deadpool spin-off movie, and he seemed very excited about their plans for the character he created. Some of the stuff he tweeted wasn't very newsworthy like the fact that Ryan Reynolds would continue to play the character, but he did seem hopeful that they were going to retain a lot more of the character's persona that made him so popular among the fans. (Check out the second tweet below.)

Liefeld's tweets follow:

"Great Deadpool movie meeting! Lauren Schuler Donner and her team are headed in the right direction!"

"Deadpool movie checklist- DP in costume-check! Breaking 4th wall-check! Loads of killing-double check!"

"Deadpool movie- YES! Ryan Reynolds is on board!!!"

And then the most interesting one:

"Also excited to discuss possibilities of Cable in future X-films!!!"

One would expect that Donner and 20th Century Fox would eventually get around to introducing Cable--the aged son of Jean Grey and Scott Summers in an alternate timeline--in a future "X-Men" installment, but it's even more promising to learn that Liefeld is involved in the development, something that could help to make it happen even sooner.

If you're a fan of Deadpool or Cable, let us know what you think of Liefeld's thoughts on the subject of their future movie appearances.

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Posted by: Dr. Jersey Shore on September 22, 2009 at 23:12:23

"DP in costume"

Bout time.. and it better be faithful to the comics.

Don't know what that garbage was in Origins. Second time is a charm?

Posted by: hdanarcy on September 22, 2009 at 23:12:32

Sounds good to me! I hope they do good on this!

Posted by: 60wolverine on September 22, 2009 at 23:12:57

Sounds cool. Don't worry, I won't say it.

Posted by: Idioteque... on September 22, 2009 at 23:14:04

I don't want Reynolds to be Deadpool anymore. RECAST.

Posted by: Deadpool fan on September 22, 2009 at 23:14:43

im looking forward to this. it will be interesting to see what they can do with such an exotic character

Posted by: johnny on September 22, 2009 at 23:16:43

still trying to figure out what xmen power i have, i try all the time to move things with my mind but it just dont work, ive tried to shoot fire and lazers out of my hands and it dont work either. so what age does your powers start to work anyway?

Posted by: wadewilson on September 22, 2009 at 23:17:29

I know how bad this is going to sound but i hope they give him cancer.

Posted by: LucaS! on September 22, 2009 at 23:21:01

Very exciting news! Would love to see Cable in the movies as well!!

Posted by: gnarking on September 22, 2009 at 23:24:41

Wow.

Liefeld sucks, his characters are lame copies of pre existing characters - Deadpool=deathstroke...right down to basic design- and, wolverine origins was unwatchable...especially the end fight scene.

PASS.

Posted by: Jimmy B on September 22, 2009 at 23:30:37

Liefeld was new and interesting when he first came on to the scene and created some of these characters but the guy is just a hack now. (Maybe I'm a little jealous cause I wanted to be doing what he was doing but...) He just a hack... any character that he had a hand in creating has evolved beyond him. His involvement give me little to no hope for a decent film.

Posted by: Juan Carlos on September 22, 2009 at 23:33:17

I love the Wolverine character, but Origin , to me, was a big disappointment, so many bad changes, including the annhilation of "maverick" with agent zero.
At least Deadpool was really cool, maybe one of the few characters treated with real respect

Posted by: Wayne Adams on September 22, 2009 at 23:34:55

if liefield liked the first incarnation of deadpool, I'm not going to be excited about how excited he is with a deadpool movie...

swords coming outta the arms.... i lack the words for it....

Posted by: JOKER_HERE!!! on September 22, 2009 at 23:36:39

hopefully the deadpool film will start with them having deadpool killing the bull **** bastardization that was deadpool in origins

Posted by: ummm on September 22, 2009 at 23:37:14

....ummm, how can they do cable, if jean and scott are dead??????????? Me thinks someone shouldve thought this through

Posted by: Darkseid on September 22, 2009 at 23:44:36

yea because noone who has died in the xmen universe has ever come back to life by some means

Posted by: Fanboiii on September 22, 2009 at 23:50:30

Liefeld liked X-Men Origin: Wolverine... no surprise there. Yeah, he has great taste.

Posted by: Fanboiii on September 22, 2009 at 23:52:04

Liefeld and FoX... good people to trust with adaptations

Posted by: D-MAN on September 22, 2009 at 23:54:35

I like what Im hearing so far.But this is 20th century Fox.So I wont be getting my hopes up.

Posted by: Joker Boy on September 22, 2009 at 23:56:32

Hey, after hearing that Bryan Singer might step back in to direct X-men 4 and straighten out this mess, I'm down for whatever, man!...

Posted by: Fanboiii on September 22, 2009 at 23:57:01

PG-13... TRIPLE CHECK!

Posted by: Warma Sheen on September 23, 2009 at 00:04:14

of course Rob is pumped. He stands to make a killing off the rights, I'm sure.

Posted by: timdogg on September 23, 2009 at 00:12:57

why don't they just make the deadpool from wolverine some kind of clone/strange brew the perfect weapon Stryker was trying to create. The real Deadpool escapes from the lab and just has the powers he has in the comics.

Posted by: SKINBEATA on September 23, 2009 at 00:16:54

Two requirements 1) Full costume 2) R rating.

Posted by: caabrae on September 23, 2009 at 00:31:06

I just hope there are scenes of him eating chimichangas and arguing with himself/Rob in his head.

Posted by: Get Real on September 23, 2009 at 00:44:00

Liefield is an idiot. Him and all those other @$$holes who left and formed Image almost brought down the whole comic business and now he wants to ruin the comic movies too? That guy is a douche.

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