Deadpool dead for Ryan Reynolds?

Ryan Reynolds is the name that makes quite a few ladies fall into a swoon, and understandably so. He's got tremendous potential as an actor too. He will be seen behind the screen this year, voicing for characters in the animation flicks The Croods and Turbo, and on screen playing a new look zombie in R.I.P.D. But even though his slate is quite full at the moment, his shot to really move a notch or two above in the star category, came and went (at least for the time being) with Green Lantern where he played the famed DC Comics superhero. One cannot fault Ryan Reynolds much with the debacle of the movie when the flimsy script and quite a tiring effort at direction were quite apparent. 

Reynolds has played another character from the comics in the past. In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Reynolds played the sword yielding Wade Wilson who finally transforms into Deadpool, a deadly assassin, gifted with many mutant powers. For the last three years, a spin-off movie on Deadpool has been openly talked about, but with the project on X-Men: First Class taken up, the spin-offs never really gathered pace. Would things change anytime soon?  

With the next movie in the X-Men world titled Wolverine releasing in a few months' time, the most interesting piece I've recently read about it is Ryan Reyonold's submission about some tidbits on Deadpool emerging in this movie. "In the current iteration of the script, it doesn’t address Wolverine – though it does address Deadpool’s appearance in Wolverine," is what he had to say, referring to the slightly different look of Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Well, while things might get clearer on that front, the chances of Reynolds playing  the titular character soon enough may be dim. In his own words, "It’s about a guy who knows he’s in a movie and knows he’s in a comic book who is deeply mentally disturbed and hyper violent, and that’s tough to get by a studio." Point taken, but even then there might come a time not so far away that studios would dare to take on movies on the anti-heroes, the not so angelic beings, and reap rewards on them. Once this shift of thinking does happen, I would like to see Ryan Reynolds take a shot at this role once again. Or else to see him play a comic book character again, one might have to wait for the many times dreamt-of Justice League based movie and hope for the studio to allow him to don the green suit again. Either way round, Reynolds' chances of portraying these roles again do seem bleak! Maybe there's something more interesting for him lying ahead ...