Deadpoolmight be his first feature film, but Tim Miller knows his way around town.
And hes not afraid to ask for help when he doesnt.
Miller shared his thoughts on Fincher, comic books, and the necessary reality of fake action scenes.
Credit: Joe Lederer
And he was making fun of me.
He said, The only job of a director is where to put the camera and for how long.
The rest is just churn.
I dont compare what I do to his genius, butFight Clubwas an influence onDeadpool.
The real world grittiness in those films.
InDeadpoolwe stayed far away from the shiny, clean X-Men world.
Its really the seedy underbelly of whats been shown in other superhero films.
The stripclub inDeadpoolis not a set.
Its Number 5 Orange in Vancouver.
But I dont think anybody does good with an excess of time or money.
We had a short shooting schedule and were editing the movie as we shot.
The first original cut was 1 hour 54 minutes.
Thats pretty close to final cut.
So hes a hero before hes a hero.
And there was no reason to change that origin.
It weakened the character and it took away something pretty valuable and intrinsic.
Maybe if I was cool enough, I could do what he does.
But I cant do that if the story breaks the rules of reality in too large of a degree.
ButTemple of Doomstarts with him falling out of a plane in a rubber lift raft.
No matter how cool you are, you cant do that.
On realistic violence
Kingsmanwas released when we were makingDeadpool.
But then theyre going to be disappointed.
None of it feels unrealistic, beyond the obvious fact that this is a guy with superpowers.
At one point there was an ending toDeadpoolthat was all guns.
But Id seen that before, so we got rid of them all.
OnMax Mad: Fury Road
It was visually spectacular.
But the stuff I didnt like was the giant guitar playing dude.
Why does a warlord have that?
People behaved in very reasonable ways.
The action scenes werent overly gratuitous.
That was a benchmark for me.
Thats when I got the call aboutDeadpool.
And [codirector] Joe Russo was like, Dude, f our film!
Go do it.'
