I haven’t seen it yet, but from what I have heard, I can’t wait. James Gunn (the dude who brought us Guardians of the Galaxy) makes some excellent, albeit vulgar points about Hollywood’s obsession with producing the “next big hit”.
/Film:
However, Gunn argues, the real lesson of Deadpool should be that audiences crave originality (or at least, as much originality as they’re going to get in a spinoff about a decades-old comic book character who previously appeared in a different spinoff from the same long-running franchise). “Deadpool was its own thing,” writes Gunn. “THAT’S what people are reacting to. It’s original, it’s damn good, it was made with love by the filmmakers, and it wasn’t afraid to take risks.” According to Gunn, the right lesson for studios to take from Deadpool should be “Boy, maybe we can give them something they don’t already have.”And therein lies the rub; so many productions in Hollywood are re-makes or re-hashes of projects that have met with great success.
Gunn has a great rant that you can see on the Faceyspaces here.