{"id":39531,"date":"2016-11-20T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T19:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=39531"},"modified":"2016-11-20T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T19:48:57","slug":"deadpool-2-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/20\/deadpool-2-director\/","title":{"rendered":"DEADPOOL 2 Signs A Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Deadpool-2-David-Leitch-678x382.jpg\" alt=\"deadpool-2-david-leitch\" width=\"678\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadpool 2<\/strong> officially has a director. Deadline is reporting that <strong>John Wick<\/strong> co-director David Leitch, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/28\/john-wick-co-director-david-leitch-considered-for-deadpool-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rumored<\/a> man the studio was looking to hire, has indeed signed to helm the film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/11\/fox-picks-david-leitch-to-direct-deadpool-2-1201857495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deadline<\/a> is also reporting that Leitch beat out the likes of Drew Goddard and Magnus Martens, who were also on Fox&#8217;s shortlist to take over the film.<\/p>\n<p>The director&#8217;s chair on <strong>Deadpool 2<\/strong> opened up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/22\/tim-miller-out-as-director-of-deadpool-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">last month<\/a> after Tim Miller, the man responsible for the first film, walked away after reportedly developed creative differences with its star Ryan Reynolds. Miller had not signed a contract to direct the sequel, but he had been working on its screenplay with original <strong>Deadpool<\/strong> screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It was clear that the studio wanted him back calling the shots behind he camera as well. The Reynolds-Miller combination helped the film gross over $782 illion worldwide, off of a reported budget of just $58 million.<\/p>\n<p>Leitch had twenty years of experience as a stuntman and stunt coordinator before he co-directed 2014&#8217;s John Wick with Chad Stahelski. Stahelski directed the sequel to the Keanu Reeves-starring thriller which will hit theaters in February. Leitch freshman solo directorial effort, the spy thriller <strong>The Coldest City<\/strong> starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman and Sofia Boutella, is set for a July 28, 2017 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">JOHN WICK co-director David Leitch is now in charge of the sequel to the hit snarky superhero comedy.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/20\/deadpool-2-director\/\" title=\"DEADPOOL 2 Signs A Director\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[8591,7832,1623,7394],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-david-leitch","8":"tag-deadpool-2","9":"tag-ryan-reynolds","10":"tag-tim-miller"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39531"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=39531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}