Just last month, producer Lauren Shuler Donner revealed that the big-screen adaptation of Deadpool, for which Ryan Reynolds is still set to star, is still in development, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Zombieland) are still writing the script and she’s calling it a reboot of the character.

Shuler Donner said,

“It’s a total reboot. We’re either going to pretend that X-Men Origins: Wolverine didn’t happen, or mock it, which he could do. It’s insane, it’s definitely comedy. But it’s an R script, it’s really irreverent and violent. Right away, we’re out of the X-Men world. He’s very involved, Ryan Reynolds. He’s working with the writers on the screenplay and it is as much his as it is ours. I’m tellin’ ya, it’s true to the comic. You’ll see all of them. You’ll see Wade Wilson, the good-looking Ryan Reynolds! You’ll see Deadpool in his costume and you’ll see the cancer-scarred face.We’re looking for a director.”

Well, they aren’t looking for a director any more. Deadline reports that visual effects artist Tim Miller (X-Men, X2, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) will make his directorial debut by helming 20th Century Fox‘s big-screen adaptation of the Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool.

Deadpool is in development.