Enough of you have showed interest in me explaining this so let me give you the quick rundown on why you should try to get #GiveDeadpoolABoyfriend trending
When the Deadpool movie was finally greenlighted there was no chance that he was going to be anything but heterosexual. One of the scriptwriters went on twitter to assure everyone he would be heterosexual. It seemed absolutely helpless but nonetheless a lot of us tweeted Ryan Reynolds, the producer, and the writers with the hashtag #panpool/#panpool2016
It worked but it worked for an odd reason. Fox didn’t think Deadpool was going to make any money so they pretty much ignored the production other than consistently cutting its budget making people like Ryan Reynolds work for free (not completely, he just used his own money to help produce it). Specifically Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds felt indebted to the fans for getting the movie made in the first place so they did pretty much everything the fans wanted, like working around Disney’s copyrights of the MCU to put characters like Bob in it, and also getting to promote Deadpool as pansexual
Despite the X-Men franchise being a mostly queer cast canonically Fox has heterosexualized everyone in the movies to a nauseating degree and Deadpool being pansexual would not have gone over if they cared at all. Then the unexpected happened, and Deadpool did extremely well.
Now Fox is kind of screwed.
They finally have a chance of making a franchise as profitable as Disney’s (the Avengers) but because they constantly screwed over everyone in the production like Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds they put themselves in a bad negotiating spot. We don’t know what happened in the negotiations but we know more or less that Ryan Reynolds now owns their ass and his position toward the fans hasn’t changed, nor has Tim Miller’s, and they agree that Deadpool should have a male love interest in the sequel they are currently writing.
Fox still owns the franchise though and has the final say so and the odds of them wanting to roll the dice on giving Deadpool a male love interest is very low.
We are in a weird position where all we have to do is convince Fox that we will pay money to see the Deadpool sequel if he has a boyfriend in it.
What fans are suggesting is that we try to get #GiveDeadpoolABoyfriend trending so Fox knows we will pay money for this despite the fact that the movie will be banned in China like the first one was.
One of the arguments against this is that everyone loves Vanessa and we don’t want her to be killed off (even though she eventually does get killed off in the comic…) but those of you who’ve read the earlier issues of Deadpool know that she becomes a mercenary herself, breaks up with Deadpool, and becomes one of his sort of adversaries. If they are following canon they will inevitably do this and if they aren’t they will inevitably break them up anyway because you can’t have a happy relationship drive a plot. That could all be besides the point, though, because Vanessa becomes Copycat, a shape shifting mutant who is gender fluid and is sexually involved with Deadpool while in male form
If we can convince that we wouldn’t mind seeing Deadpool with a dude we might get to see at the very least Copycat and Deadpool in canonical situations like this which would be amazing in and of itself.
Cable is going to be in the Deadpool sequel and he is one of Deadpool’s most iconic romantic partners and a lot of us would love to see that on screen.
At least the lotion scene
Cable is pretty definitely going to be in the X–Force movies and so Fox is going to want to stamp a “no homo” on that, but honestly, the Deadpool movie itself seemed impossible.
And we already have everyone in production on our side.
If you want to participate in trying to make this happen please use the tag #GiveDeadpoolABoyfriend
You can tweet Fox @20thcenturyfox (no angry tweets, remember they haven’t exactly said no yet, they are just hiding in the closet so to speak)
You should also tweet to Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds and Tim Miller @timblur despite the fact that they are already behind it tweets to them can give them ammunition against Fox
Remember you can use this on all social media sites, and the more you do the better. You technically don’t have to do anything but post the tag #GiveDeadpoolABoyfriend but you can always have fun with it and add some fanart or share some of your favorite panpool moments
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