Last month, we were all shocked to hear that Tim Miller, who helmed Deadpool, wouldn't be coming back for its sequel. It was reported that the director had to walk away due to creative differences with lead actor Ryan Reynolds. Follow-up reports hinted at what the things were on which the director and actor couldn't agree, as well as who might replace Miller, but Reynolds remained totally mum about the event.
However, during a recent interview with GQ, the Canadian actor finally broke his silence about Miller's departure from Deadpool 2:
All I can really add is that I’m sad to see him off the film. Tim’s brilliant and nobody worked harder on Deadpool than he did.
His direct response is very diplomatic, but something he said elsewhere in the interview seems to suggest that he and the director were definitely at odds over what they felt was the right way to advance:
I know when I need to exert control, and I know when I need to let go of it. I'm not gonna go and sit with Tim Miller and say, "The visual effects of Deadpool need to be done this way."
While Reynolds doesn't hesitate to term Miller "a visual-effects wizard", he claims that there are "character and tone things" that he knows "really well". He believes that he has been with Deadpool "the longest out of anybody", excluding the comic book writers. He added:
Eleven years I've been trying to get this Sisyphus rock up the hill, and it kept rolling back on top of me. So I'm gonna be all the fuck over it from the moment it starts to the moment it finishes.
We all more or less know about Ryan Reynolds' commitment to Deadpool, and if we were to choose between him and Tim Miller, we would have surely done the same as 20th Century Fox. The studio reportedly has so much faith in the 40-year-old actor that they are already planning Deadpool 3, which would introduce X-Force!
