After Ryan Reynolds' well-received performance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, fans have been clamouring to see his character Wade Wilson evolve fully into masked mercenary Deadpool.
Comic book purists enjoyed Reynolds' portrayal in the early part of the Wolverine film but weren't too happy with deviations from the source material towards the end of the movie.
A Deadpool spin-off is in the pipeline at 20th Century Fox and Reynolds has been promising it will be accurate to the comics, showing him as the wisecracking 'merc with a mouth' who makes pop-culture references and 'breaks the fourth wall' (addresses the reader directly).
But then came the surprise: the 32-year-old Canadian was revealed to be on in the final three (along with Bradley Cooper and Justin Timberlake) to play Green Lantern over at Warner Bros. And then another surprise when Reynolds landed the role.
He'll be playing hotshot pilot Hal Jordan who
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