Deadpool 2: 8 Reasons To Be Excited

7. Ricky Baker... Now Accepted

Taika Waititi might be making waves with Thor: Ragnarok this year, but the New Zealand director has more than one hit to his name. 2014's What We Do in the Shadows was raucously funny, but it's 2016's Hunt for the Wilderpeople that truly managed to amaze.

For fans of that film, the news that Julian Dennison (Ricky Baker, once rejected, now accepted), will have a part to play in Deadpool will no doubt be exciting. He was brilliant in that film as Ricky, a teenager abandoned by society and forced to adapt to extraordinary circumstances during his adolescence, so it would make sense for him to play a mutant, seeing as how those two elements are part and parcel of any X-Man's teenage years.

We know not yet what character Dennison is playing, but he looks to be handy with fire. Scouring through the database to find fire-bound mutants hasn't yielded many potential candidates for the role, but - even if it is a new creation - it's great to see Ricky Baker accepted once more.