‘Deadpool 2’: James Gunn “Bummed” About Director Tim Miller’s Departure, Fans Petition For Quentin Tarantino
By Angie Han/Oct. 24, 2016 12:30 pm EST
Fellow superhero movie director James Gunn has spoken up to express his disappointment in Miller’s departure. Meanwhile, some other fans are already thinking about who should replace Miller — and they’ve got their eye on Quentin Tarantino.
One of the people who really, really liked the movie was Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. “Deadpool was its own thing,” he wrote after the film’s release. “It’s original, it’s damn good, it was made with love by the filmmakers, and it wasn’t afraid to take risks.” So now that Deadpool 2 has lost Miller, Gunn is understandably “bummed” to see him go.
But now the question is who’ll replace Miller. One fan has started a Change.org petition suggesting the job go to Quentin Tarantino. Here’s his reasoning:
At time of writing, the petition has about 800 names out of its stated goal of 1,000. Not that it matters that much — a Change.org petition isn’t likely to have a huge influence on the decision no matter how many signatures it gets.
If there was ever a chance to see Tarantino do a project almost guaranteed to make a billion dollars, this is it. We got a great taste of what this could be like in Kill Bill, but imagine having a guy like Tarantino write dialogue for The Merc with the Mouth! It would be so glorious. Join me!
And then there’s the question of whether Tarantino would even want to do a Deadpool movie to begin with. Tarantino has shown interest in superhero properties before — like Luke Cage, long before Luke Cage was even a twinkle in Netflix’s eye — and Deadpool’s gleefully violent, unapologetically crude vibe could be a good fit for Tarantino’s sensibilities. But he seems pretty content doing his own thing for now (and as a Tarantino fan, personally, I’d rather see him keep doing original work).
