Lately, all things are coming up DEADPOOL. Well... mostly due to the fact the past 12 days were deemed the '12 Days of Deadpool' leading up to a Christmas Day release of the film's new trailers.
While speaking with Empire about the trailer, director Tim Miller talked about bit Negasonic Teenage Warhead (NTW) and Angel Dust in the movie. First, Miller described the mutant powers of Colossus' apprentice/trainee mutant Negasonic Teenage Warhead, played by Brianna Hildebrand.
"...[W]e chose her because we wanted a trainee for Colossus in the film and the writers and I just fell in love with her name. It’s just so out there and so Deadpool and it was Grant Morrison who named her, so we knew we had to get her in there. And then we thought, well, we’re going to need to make her powers fit with who she feels like she is in the movie and so to me it’s just like other characters in the Marvel universe, like Nitro, for instance, whose power is to just explode parts of their body. But we did try to do it so that it wasn’t just a simple, ‘oh, I can explode’, she can transfer the force of the explosion down so she can move upwards - she can put it into a punch if she wanted to. So it was really just her fist exploding as she hit somebody. we tried to mix it up, even though we didn’t use that particular thing in the movie, but it was the idea. Actually, we did use it in the movie, it’s just not in the movie now!"
Miller, also, spoke about the power of Ajax's co-villain Angel Dust (Gina Carano).
"Her powers in the comics are - she’s a little like the Hulk, in that the angrier she gets, her adrenaline sort of activates this super strength. So the angrier she gets, the harder she fights and stronger she is, so that’s her power in the comics and we try to play that up a little bit in the fight sequences. But Gina herself, she was amazing: in hindsight, I can’t even imagine considering an actress who didn’t have the kind of history that Gina did, because just on our budget level and the way we wanted to do these fights to keep them grounded there was no way that a stunt person could step in and do what she did, which was just incredibly physical. She would do these scenes with the stunt guy and then we’d take him out and she’d do them by herself so we’d have these clean actions and it was amazing. She’s got photographic reflexes and every fucking take she was going all out. It was great."
Finally, Miller disclosed how NTW thinks Deadpool is a douchebag and an a-hole.
"I think Deadpool wishes she’d keep her mouth shut more than she does in the film! Because she’s quite snarky. But, you know, her whole attitude is this disaffected teen who thinks Deadpool’s just a douchebag. And so that’s her whole attitude. She’s really not that silent in the film or at least she’s silently surly because she just can’t be bothered to engage with this asshole. That’s the basics of her personality: silently shaming, judgemental personality."
DEADPOOL releases on February 12, 2016.
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