FFF Ep. #88 - The Deadpool Trilogy

This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’ve jumped on that bandwagon and got a full fledged case of Deadpool-mania!

That means we’re going to discuss all three of Ryan Reynolds happy little R-rated capers which started in 2016 with Deadpool directed by Tim Miller, starring Ryan Reynolds, TJ Miller Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapicic, Ed Skrein, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni and Gina Carano. Then continued with 2018’s Deadpool 2, directed by David Lietch and starring pretty much the same cast minus Skrein and Carano with the addition of Josh Brolin, Zazie Beets, Julian Dennison, and Rob Delaney. And capped off with the most marketed and hyped movie of my lifetime, 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Mr. Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as well as a good portion of the previous supporting cast in cameos along with Matthew MacFadyen and Emma Corrin as villains.

I’m Gino Caputi and my solitary guest today is author, hypnotherapist and comic book shop royalty Joe Field.

I have to announce that Deadpool & Wolverine raked in 440 million over the July 26th 2024 weekend, the highest opening weekend box office haul for an R rated film ever. Do you think Ryan Reynolds’ and Hugh Jackman’s over-the top marketing strategy of appearing on nearly every talk show, web site and commercial for a month helped or hurt its box office. Could it have been more if they hadn’t seemed so transparently mercenary?

Before we get into it, the synopses:

Deadpool 1-3 are about Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool. the “Merc with a Mouth” a cynical 4th-wall-breaking character who makes scores of naughty puns while killing bad guys in over-the-top grotesque CGI enhanced ways. His powers are just like Wolverine’s, he’s unkillable because he heals and regenerates faster than it takes for his body’s functions to shut down due to loss of blood. Or something like that.

Which Deadpool Film gets the killshot?

Find out!

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