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Deadpool
The origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
2016 · Directed by Tim Miller · 108 min · Action · Adventure · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 9 frames
Tagline
Feel the love.
Plot
The vigilante Deadpool, Wade Wilson, ambushes Ajax and his convoy on an expressway. Throughout the ambush, Wade shows the viewer the events leading to how he became Deadpool. After being dishonorably discharged from the Canadian special forces, Wade works as a freelance mercenary until he meets a sex worker named Vanessa. They become romantically involved, and a year later, she accepts his marriage proposal. Wade is later diagnosed with terminal cancer and is approached by a mysterious recruiter who offers him an experimental treatment that will heal his cancer.
Wade leaves Vanessa so she will not have to watch him die. He is taken to a laboratory run by Ajax and Angel Dust, who injects him with a serum designed to awaken latent mutant genes in his body. They subject Wade to days of torture to trigger any mutation but to no avail. When Wade discovers Ajax's real name is Francis and mocks him for it, Ajax leaves Wade in a hypobaric chamber that periodically takes him to the verge of asphyxiation over a weekend. This activates a regenerative healing factor that counteracts Wade's cancer but leaves him severely disfigured with burn-like tumors all over his body. He escapes from the chamber and attacks Ajax but relents when told his condition can be cured. In the chaos, Ajax subdues Wade and leaves him for dead.
Wade survives due to his new healing factor and seeks out Vanessa but does not reveal that he is alive out of fear that she will shun him because of his new scarred appearance. After consulting with his best friend Weasel, Wade decides to hunt down Ajax for the cure. He becomes a vigilante, adopting the name "Deadpool" (from Weasel picking him in a dead pool), and moves into the home of an elderly blind woman named Al. Throughout the following year, he questions and kills many of Ajax's associates until one, the recruiter, reveals Ajax's whereabouts. This information allows Wade to enact the ambush. He kills all of Ajax's henchmen, subdues Ajax, and demands the cure, but the X-Men Colossus and his trainee Negasonic Teenage Warhead interrupt him. Colossus attempts to convince Wade to mend his ways and join the X-Men, but Wade turns him down. Taking advantage of this distraction, Ajax escapes and regroups with Angel Dust. They then head to Weasel's bar, where Ajax hears of Vanessa.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
- Cinematography: Ken Seng
- Edited by: Julian Clarke
- Music: Tom Holkenborg
- Production design: Sean Haworth
- Produced by: Ryan Reynolds, Simon Kinberg, Lauren Shuler Donner
Cast
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade / Deadpool
- Morena Baccarin as Vanessa
- Ed Skrein as Ajax
- T.J. Miller as Weasel
- Gina Carano as Angel Dust
- Leslie Uggams as Blind Al
- Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead
- Stefan Kapičić as Colossus (voice)
- Karan Soni as Dopinder
- Randal Reeder as Buck
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox, The Donners' Company, Genre Films, Marvel Entertainment
- Budget: $58,000,000
- Box office: $782,837,347
- Themes: superhero, anti hero, mercenary, based on comic, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger
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