RELATED: Fox Already Planning Deadpool 3 Featuring X-Force Reynolds is again serving as a producer on Deadpool 2 alongsideВ X-Men franchise caretakers Simon Kinberg andВ Lauren Shuler Donner. Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, вЂњthe real heroes hereвЂќ who penned the first film,В are returning for Deadpool 2. Before all of that, though, 2017 is bringing us both theВ Leitch-helmed The Coldest City, starringВ Charlize Theron and James McAvoy, and the Stahleski-helmed John Wick: Chapter 2, set for a Februrelease. Since releasing the hit Keanu Reeves actioner in 2014, Leitch and Stahleski have been busy on a number of projects, including adaptations of ValiantвЂs Bloodshotand Image ComicsвЂ Cowboy Ninja Viking (the latter of which has Chris Pratt attached to play the lead). In addition to years of experience working second unit, the pair also own and operate 87Eleven Action Design, a Hollywood choreography studio that builds fight sequences and trains stuntmen for some of HollywoodвЂ™s biggest blockbusters.

Leitch co-directed John Wick with Chad Stahleski. RELATED:В CS Video: John Wick Directors Teach Us Stunt Choreography As previously reported, though, plans for Deadpool 3 are already in the works and the trade confirms that a hunt is underway for a different Deadpool director there. Now, The Hollywood ReporterВ confirms that John WickвЂsВ David Leitch will helm Deadpool 2. Ryan ReynoldsвЂ X-Men Origins: Wolverine-erasing return as the Merc with a Mouth pulled in $782.6 million worldwide.

After all, audiences responded toВ the 20th Century FoxВ expansion of their cinematic X-MenВ universe like never before. John WickвЂ™s David Leitch locks Deadpool 2, but one good Deadpool directorВ deserves anotherДЄs he has in the pages of Marvel Comics, Deadpool is spreading fast on the silver screen.

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