<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $58 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $783.1 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, distributed by 20th Century Fox . It is the eighth installment of the X-Men film series, and the first standalone Deadpool film . Directed by Tim Miller from a screenplay by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film stars Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson / Deadpool alongside Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano, and Brianna Hildebrand . In the film, Wilson hunts down the man who gave him mutant abilities, but also a scarred physical appearance, as the antihero Deadpool . </P> <P> Development of a Deadpool film starring Reynolds began in February 2004, before he went on to play the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 . Reese and Wernick were hired for a spinoff in 2010, and worked with Reynolds to more faithfully adapt the character (including his fourth wall breaking) after the portrayal in Wolverine was criticized for not doing so . Miller was hired in 2011 for his directorial debut, and an enthusiastic response to leaked test footage he created with Reynolds led to a green - light from Fox in 2014 . Additional casting began in early 2015, and filming took place in Vancouver from March to May of that year . Visual effects were provided by multiple vendors and ranged from the addition of blood and gore to the creation of the CG character Colossus . </P>

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