Deadpool 2 Writers on Domino, Cable and New Director

Zazie Beetz "a very exciting casting choice."

By Alex Welch

During a recent chat with IGN about their new sci-fi thriller Life, starring Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick opened up to us about the upcoming Deadpool 2, the casting of Zazie Beetz as Domino, the sequel's new director, and what adding Cable to the mix means for the movie.

IGN: Has it been any different working with David Leitch as opposed to Tim Miller?

Rhett Reese: It's been phenomenal, David has his own, you know, point of view that's different from Tim's. He comes into a situation obviously where there already exists a tone and a style, so he's going to stay pretty close to that, I think. But at the same time, he brings a new approach and it's enlivened us definitely to try new things and to do things a little bit different from the first Deadpool. Not drastically, but enough that you get the sense that it's coming from a slightly different team.

We love Tim Miller to death, we also love Dave now. I think you'll be very satisfied with what we're cooking up. We are loving our script right now, and the direction that it's headed. So I think audiences hopefully will be pleased.

IGN: What is it that Zazie Beetz brought to her audition for Domino that made her the right choice for the role?

Rhett Reese: Well, you know, it's tough to say. There's this very wonderful alchemy that happens when an actor starts to read the lines that we came up with. She just really sparked, and it really just flew off the screen. I think that we now will be able to write with her voice in mind more, which always helps too. So yeah, I think you're right, it's a very exciting casting choice and we think it's going to pay off.

Paul Wernick: And she, you know, in the read and in the test she went toe-to-toe with Ryan and that's not an easy task, he's such a brilliant actor. She kept face with him and that's reason enough to see how that plays out over the course of the next movie and franchise.

IGN: What do Domino and Cable bring to the dynamic of the sequel, and what are you doing to make sure it's still very much a Deadpool movie, rather than a team film?

Paul Wernick: Well again, it will entirely be a Deadpool movie, and these characters we introduce will have to come into that world and it will be our task to have them not overtake it.

Deadpool 2 starts filming later this year for a 2018 release.

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