Reynolds: 'Deadpool will be emotional filth'

Ryan Reynolds has compared his upcoming Deadpool movie to Mickey Rourke's film Barfly.

Reynolds told the Los Angeles Times that he is hoping to make the Marvel Comics project, about an unstable mercenary, "a nasty piece of work".

"It's just based in so much emotional filth, completely. It’s like Barfly if it were a superhero movie," he said, referring to the Charles Bukowski biopic.

"It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person. I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarised shame spiral."

The actor admitted that the movie represented a risk because it goes in a different direction to traditional superhero pictures.

"There’s a gamble to it: you’re going to lose a few people right at the beginning," he explained. "But you take the gamble and know that eventually you’re going to win them back. You gotta eat the nastyburger to get to the cookies!"

Sin City director Robert Rodriguez is rumoured to be circling the director's chair for Deadpool.