With Deadpool expected to continue its success at the global box-office, and with a new X-Men film (X-Men: Apocalypse) due in cinemas in just over a month, questions are starting to be asked as to when we will be able to see a crossover movie? Well, no time soon, according to Deadpool’s screenwriters.
Speaking with The Playlist, writers and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick said that a crossover isn’t likely. Not yet anyway. Reese started the conversation.
“If you look at the ‘Iron Man’ model they had two ‘Iron Man’ [movies] before they had an ‘Avengers,’ and if left up to us, I think that would be a very prudent path. The second issue at hand is the ‘X-Men’ universe timeline. ‘The X-Men’ series is currently set in the 1980s, ‘Deadpool,’ is set three decades later in our present day.” Reese said.
Wernick added: “It’s a timeline that will eventually catch up I would imagine. But [‘X-Men’ producer] Simon [Kingberg’s] more the keeper of that universe and maybe we’ll see more X-Men playing in Deadpool’s sandbox and probably Deadpool playing in their sandbox at some point.
“Deadpool’s now become a brand and franchise unto himself, independent of the ‘X-Men’ and that’s great. And that gives the studio two franchises in one, but I think it is its own franchise, and you’ll see synergy between those two properties, but they’re two very distinct brands.”
Not great news then. More at the end of the link above.
