The first official trailer for Deadpool has been released, after grainy cellphone footage of the project blew up the internet following Comic-Con. That leaked footage brought massive amounts of hype, but wasn’t initially shown to fans online because it still needed some fine tuning before it hit the web.
Three weeks later, Fox posted a hilarious “trailer trailer” online and on Tuesday night, we finally got our first look at the “Merc with the Mouth.”
I must say, the trailer looks like Deadpool is getting a very faithful adaptation. There’s plenty of humor, breaking the fourth wall and balls-to-the-wall action. While Ryan Reynolds has struck out on previous superhero roles — as he hilariously refers to not making his iconic suit green and animated — Wade Wilson/Deadpool seems like the role he was born to play.
While the trailer starts off with your cheesy regurgitated superhero origin story, as Wade Wilson is dying and is told “he could be made better” and “given abilities most men could dream of,” that’s not what this film is about at all. Wilson cracks many pop culture jokes waiting for his transformation, calling Ajax (Ed Skrein) “Posh Spice” and Angel Dust (Gina Carano) “less angry Rosie O’Donnell.” It’s all on par with the character’s interactions in the comics.
The trailer then flips itself on its head, as Salt-N-Pepa’s “Shoop” starts playing and the scene from the initial test footage which brought the film back to life is used. We see Deadpool jump off down, flip a car and kick some bad guy ass. This is where the action really ramps up, as DMX’s “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” starts playing and Deadpool starts killing a bunch of people — including the much talked about shot from Comic-Con where he shoots three bad guys in the head with one bullet. Quite gruesome stuff, and very deserving of its R-rating.
During the montage, we get our first good looks at Negasonic Teenage Warhead (newcomer Brianna Hildebrand), Weasel (T.J Miller) and Colossus (Andre Tricoteux).
Now that looks awesome.
Like a scene straight out of Silicon Valley, we get Miller’s Weasel riffing on Wade Wilson’s appearance, telling him “you look like Freddy Krueger face-fucked a topographical map of Utah,” followed by another zinger, “You look like an avocado had sex with an older avocado.” This is where Miller’s humor fits in perfectly with the Deadpool universe. He’s a no-hold-back comic, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if those lines were all improvised by Miller himself.
After killing some baddies, Deadpool smells his recently fired guns and proclaims “Ahhhhhh, I’m touching myself tonight,” which frankly is something I’ve never heard in a comic book movie, but is a line the wise-cracking character would conjure up.
While this trailer was rated R, Twentieth Century Fox also released a green band trailer which is a bit tamer. In that version, there’s a lot less violence, sex and swearing. For example, instead of saying he’s going to touch himself, Deadpool says he’s “very turned on right now.” Basically, Fox cleaned up all of the raunchy stuff. You may think that it’s not worth watching, but what comes after the trailer is fun. Deadpool appears and tells the audience if they are hankering for more action and “big boy curse words,” they should check out the red band version.
I know it’s just a trailer, but it’s extremely encouraging.
Deadpool is a character who could have been done so incredibly wrong *cough* Wolverine: Origins *cough*, and it looks like this time Reynold and director Tim Miller have found the right way to bring the character to life. The movie’s going to be a bloodbath, with plenty of nudity, swearing and raunchiness, which no Marvel property (maybe Daredevil, if we’re nitpicking) — or really any comic book film — has done, which Deadpool’s portrayal absolutely needs.
It’s amazing how right this looks. Feb. 12, 2016 can’t come quickly enough.
