Deadpool 2: 10 Directors Who Could Replace Tim Miller

1. Chad Stahelski

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It's not hard to see why Chad Stahelski is the favourite to direct Deadpool's sequel - the guy is a action man through and through. There aren't many film directors out there that started out as a stuntman and there certainly aren't any that can say they stood in for Brandon Lee on the Crow following his untimely death. But this was how Stahelski started out in Tinseltown, paving the way for him to coordinate stunts on the likes of Speed and The Matrix Trilogy.

It was this relationship with star Keanu Reeves that gave him the chance to co-helm 2015's sleeper hit, John Wick. This crazed gem of an action film bought gun fu to the masses - a compendium of how crockery cracking fight scenes and immense gun battles should look on the screen. In short, it's a better popcorn flick than anything Michael Bay has put out this century.

So, we have a vacant director's chair for a Deadpool film that promises to embed itself to be bigger and crazier and a man that, along with the above experience, can boast about being an expert in everything from martial arts, wire work acrobatics and even scuba diving. Give him the job already.

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Shaun is a former contributor for a number of Future Publishing titles and more recently worked as a staffer at Imagine Publishing. He can now be found banking in the daytime and writing a variety of articles for What Culture, namely around his favourite topics of film, retro gaming, music, TV and, when he's feeling clever, literature.