Casting news on the upcoming “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” movie, now shooting down under, should make fans of the character’s early 1990s adventures more than happy. It’s been confirmed that Ryan Reynolds has been cast as Deadpool and Taylor Kitsch as Gambit, with rapper will.i.am playing Wraith. They join Hugh Jackman in the lead role, as well as Liev Schrieber as Sabretooth, Danny Huston as William Stryker and Lynn Collins as Kayla Silverfox, based on the comics character Silver Fox.
Six months ago, Ryan Reynolds told MTV News he would “forgo anything” to play the “X-Men” character Deadpool “in some incarnation.”
So what did he have to sacrifice? Story rights? Back-end gross? Another film? None of the above. In the end, all Reynolds had to give up was top billing.
Reynolds will cameo as Wade Wilson, the sarcastic “Merc With a Mouth,” in the upcoming “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” reported AintItCoolNews.com. And the 31-year-old actor couldn’t be more excited. “I’ve always wanted to do Deadpool,” Reynolds enthused
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