Last year, we reported that Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were hired to write the screenplay for Deadpool, starring Ryan Reynolds and just a few months ago, 20th Century Fox offered the directing gig to Robert Rodriguez (Machete), who is busy working on the latest installment in his Spy Kids franchise and has neither accepted or declined the job as of yet.

Now, Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern) speaking with the LA Times, talked a bit about the Merc with a mouth’s trip to the big-screen.

“It goes in such a different direction than a superhero movie usually goes. It’s 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. It sort of treads into the world of an emotionally damaged person. I always say that Deadpool is a guy in a highly militarized shame spiral…. It’s so different than the superhero movies to date, it departs so far from that.”

Reynolds compared the film to the first day in prison:

“With Deadpool, it’s a lot like going to prison for the first day. You got to walk up and hit the biggest guy you see to establish a bit of cred. With Deadpool, early on you have to establish that moral flexibility. There’s a gamble to it – you’re going to lose a few people right at the beginning but you take the gamble and know that eventually you’re going to win them back. You won’t lose the hard-core fans of the character, they already know who he is. We have to play to a broader audience than that. As an actor you have to be willing to do something like … back in Vancouver we used to call it a [nasty] burger. ‘You gotta eat the [nasty] burger to get to the cookies.’ And yes, I want to write a cookbook about that…”

Deadpool is currently slated to hit theaters in 2012.