Bryan Singer Says There's "Room" For Deadpool In Main X-Men Movies
He's meta, but don't rule it out...
Ahead of the release of X-Men Apocalypse - which has now seen its first reviews appear online - Bryan Singer has been talking about the future of the X-Men franchise with Variety, offering some tasty morsels of information.
Inevitably, after the Merc With A Mouth's stand-alone success, the question of integration is going to come up a lot for anyone shaping the X-Men universe. At least Singer doesn't entirely rule it out:
If you take a character as irreverent and meta as Deadpool and connect him to something as grounded and serious as X-Men, you have to do it carefully and gently. When you drop them all in together it can be a disaster. That has to be done delicately, but theres plenty of room to do it.
That's your typical, diplomatic answer. You have to suspect the logistics of bringing Deadpool in are a lot more complex than he's even letting on: having him breaking the fourth wall in a main X-Men movie wouldn't just compromise the tone of that universe, it would compromise something more fundamental, and it would be incredibly jarring, no matter how well it worked in Deadpool's own movie.
Likewise, Deadpool probably doesn't need the X-Men yet. As long as he has compelling stories of his own, he can exist on the fringes and the question doesn't even need to be asked. Give him cameos - hell, even give him a versus movie with Wolverine - and it will continue to work. Concentrating more on giving him good adversaries rather than glorified henchmen is a far more pressing concern than how he'd fit into the X-Men universe.
Singer also spoke about the X-Men franchise's expansion:
I think the underbelly . Theres always something interesting about a school thats got a military aspect beneath its classrooms. Is there another layer to all of that? Is there another layer to the Hellfire Club? The idea of, Whos running the world? thats something that was touched upon in First Class but has yet to be fully explored. It just has to be explored in a very gentle, methodical way. And Ive seen it go haywire. Im not going to be specific where I believe it has. The audience will tell you. But when its done right, it all can connect.
With the first reviews of Apocalypse suggesting Singer's latest is something of a misstep, the question of whether he will continue has also become more pertinent. That goes doubly given the suggestion that Singer's direction in particular was a problem for the sequel. It doesn't sound like he's done just yet, rightly or wrongly:
When you spend nearly two decades in a universe, to simply say, Im done, or, Im going to abandon it, just wouldnt make sense to me. Im very connected to this universe and a lot of these actors, and also the characters, whomever plays them. So never say never.
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