Wolverine's Ryan Reynolds Dives In for Deadpool Spinoff

It's official: The mutants are taking over Hollywood. And we're not talking about the freaks running the studios.

Following the monster weekend for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and a day after announcing that a Hugh Jackman-powered sequel is in the works, 20th Century Fox has confirmed to E! News that Jackman's costar Ryan Reynolds will be given his own spinoff and potential franchise-launcher as the Marvel Comics antihero Deadpool.

The 32-year-old Canadian actor, otherwise known as Mr. Scarlett Johansson, will again star as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking, cancer-stricken mercenary who's cured of the disease after undergoing the same Weapon X genetic alteration as Wolverine.

But along with superhuman powers, enhanced strength and self-regenerating healing powers, the slightly unhinged Deadpool can absorb the abilities of dead and captured mutants.

- Yahoo News

Isn't this news great? It isn't surprising if there are a lot of spin-offs to the X-men movies, if you have been a long time comic fan like me you know that there are tons of great storylines and lots of great characters in the X-men universe.

I am also a fan of Ryan Reynolds and always admired him as an action star since I first saw him in Blade Trinity plus the fact that the present makers of the X-men movies always does justice to the franchise (even though they don't really follow the storylines but that would be impossible) I think I am going to buy a lot of "X" DVDs from now on hehe.