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    'Deadpool' Screenwriters Go Deep: X-Men Choices, De-powering Copycat, and All Those Sex Jokes

    “We wrote it six and a half years ago and have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since,” Paul Wernick, who penned the Ryan Reynolds-starring film with his Zombieland collaborator Rhett Reese, told Yahoo Movies"It’s been a crazy, crazy journey. Fans loved it, and all of a sudden, the foul-mouthed mutant mercenary, who popped up in 2009’s flop X-Men Origins: Wolverine, had his own movie officially green-lit (or so the neat narrative goes).