Deadpool defied all the odds to become one of the biggest smashes of recent years.
With a relatively small $ 58million budget, an R-restricted rating and first-time director, it stunned the industry and exploded to a whopping $ 783million worldwide box office.
Leading man Ryan Reynolds deservedly took much of the credit, but Tim Miller also announced his arrival as a major Hollywood force with his debut movie.
It was no shock that a sequel was quickly announced, but jaws dropped when Miller suddenly withdrew from the project amid a flurry of rumours.
Most of the fereverish speculation reported creative differences between Miller and Reynolds about the direction of the sequel.
Now Miller has openly hinted that he felt the follow-up to such a wildly innovative and ground-breaking movie was becoming a little predictable and not what he had hoped to do, which made his shock ejection from the project considerably less painful.
The director spoke out in a major new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
He said: “I mean, I wanted to make Deadpool 2. I was going to do that, until I wasn’t. So, there was that, which took up about seven months of my time…
“I felt like there was more stories to tell there, but I’m happy that somebody else is telling them. And I’ve got to tell you, there was a sense of relief in that I get to do something new versus Deadpool 2. I think it would’ve been a great movie, but it was also going to be a continuation of what we had done.”
Instead, Miller has taken the risk-laden helm of another hugely anticipated reboot of a troubled franchise.
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Miller and James Cameron will be restarting the Terminator franchise, leading directly on from Terminator 2, and disregarding the troubled and ambivalently received subsequent three movies.
Miller admiitted he was always going to take the project after Deadpool 2 was finished, but his change of plans speeded up the process.
James Cameron didn’t miss the chance to interject in the interview with a cheeky: “Thank you, Ryan (Reynolds).”
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