4. Deadpools Left The Door Wide Open For Suicide Squad
Where critical reception to Deadpool so far has been mixed-to-positive - 65% on Metacritic, 84% on Rotten Tomatoes - fan reactions have been through the roof. The R-rated anti-hero experiment is proving to be a fantastic appetiser for 2016's other scoundrel-based movie, DC's Suicide Squad. Deadpool being a smash-hit opener at the box office - and here's hoping it keeps up its momentum - means that those very same people who plunked down their hard-earned cash for Wade Wilson will have the taste for more of the same. It's easy to assume then that they'd be up for Suicide Squad, in a 'Like that? Watch this!' kind of way. Warner Bros. should essentially be thanking Fox for the early success of Deadpool. Meanwhile, Marvel have to be looking at both of those movies and thinking about bringing one of their own darkly funny anti-hero properties to the big screen. Thunderbolts, anyone?
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