SPOILERS FOR THE END OF X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE FOLLOW:

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool (pre-mask)
Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool (pre-mask)

Well dang.  If my mouth wasn’t sewn shut in a Weapon X experiment, I’d stick my foot in it.  I really wasn’t expecting this to actually happen:

Twentieth Century Fox has begun development on “Deadpool,” an “X-Men” spinoff that will be crafted as a star vehicle for Ryan Reynolds, who played the character in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”

The character is one of the most popular in Marvel Comics’ X-Men universe. Deadpool is Wade Wilson, a mercenary who, dying of cancer, submits himself to the Weapon X genetic alteration experiment and emerges as an indestructible semi-sane anti-hero. Reynolds seemed destined to play the character. In one reference in the Marvel Comics, Deadpool is described as a mix between “a Shar Pei and Ryan Reynolds.”

In one of the “Easter egg” endings of “Wolverine,” Deadpool is seen rising from the rubble and whispering “Shhh” to audiences.

The film will be produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is in theaters now!

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