{"id":93022,"date":"2016-11-21T18:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=93022"},"modified":"2016-11-21T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:06:21","slug":"deadpool-2-gets-a-director-and-you-might-not-know-who-he-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/deadpool-2-gets-a-director-and-you-might-not-know-who-he-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadpool 2 gets a director, and you might not know who he is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Tim Miller stepped down from\u00a0<strong><em>Deadpool 2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>last month due to &#8216;creative differences&#8217;, it has been up in the air about who would be taking over from the man who made one of the best movies of the year (arguably\u00a0<em>the<\/em> best movie of 2016 with six weeks left to go), but it has now been confirmed that David Leitch (who was uncredited for co-directing <em><strong>John Wick<\/strong><\/em>) will be helming the hottest sequel that is currently in the works (and there are a lot of them, let&#8217;s be honest!)<\/p>\n<p>Leitch&#8217;s name may not be one you know, after all, his directing credits currently consist of that one uncredited movie, and an upcoming title (the Sofia Boutella and James McAvoy starring\u00a0<strong><em>The Coldest Day<\/em><\/strong>). But you have definitely seen his work. He has served as a Stunt Co-Ordinator (or as a part of the Stunt team) on over 80 films, including\u00a0<strong><em>TRON: Legacy<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>Jupiter Ascending<\/em><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><em>300<\/em><\/strong>. Given that teh biggest and (maybe) best part of\u00a0<strong><em>Deadpool<\/em><\/strong> was the absolutely stunning fight sequences, he\u00a0should be a good shout.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is whether or not he will be able to deliver on the laughs like the first film did. He worked as an assistant director on\u00a0<strong><em>Jurassic World<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>Anchorman 2<\/em><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><em>Captain America: Civil War<\/em><\/strong> (among a bunch of other comic book movies and films with elements of comedy in them) so really his body of work is extensive and overs all the right areas.<\/p>\n<p>Also attached to the project at the moment is, of course,\u00a0Ryan Reynolds as the titled merc with a mouth, and it is rumoured that relative newcomer Rich Sands shall be appearing as Cable\/Nathan Summers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Deadpool 2<\/em><\/strong> <strong>will start filming next year, with a current release date of 2 March 2018. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadpool 2 gets a new director after Tim Miller stepped down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":93025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5072],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/31251.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}