Simon Kinberg Provides Updates on a DEADPOOL Sequel, WOLVERINE 3, NEW MUTANTS, and More

Writer/producer Simon Kinberg has become 20th Century Fox's go-to guy when it comes to the studio's Marvel superhero films, and he's involved with so many properties he's also become one of the movie press's go-to sources of information about all of those project since he's constantly out promoting films he's worked on.

In an extensive interview with Collider, which has so much information packed into it that I can't begin to unravel it all in one article, Kinberg gave updates on a few of the studio's upcoming superhero projects including a potential Deadpool sequel, Wolverine 3, New Mutants, and Gambit (which he says is looking to shoot in New Orleans), and I'll pull some of his most integral quotes and paste them below:

On a possible Deadpool 2:

It’s certainly the hope, and there is conversation about what the idea would be and perhaps which characters we would bring in to a sequel. The writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, were a really integral part of the process. Our focus, like all of us, is on finishing the film, so I think as soon as we finish the film we’ll be talking seriously about the sequel and then we’ll wait a couple months and see how the movie does. Hopefully the movie will do great and we can keep making these movies, because I do think there’s a lot more story to tell. I’m assuming it’ll come out somewhere whether it’s on the internet or the DVD eventually, but on every single take there’s like an embarrassment of riches of alternate takes, whether it’s Ryan [Reynolds] or T.J. Miller, pretty much any character in the movie just goofing around and coming up with other lines, ideas, abs. It’d be fun to keep making these movies because it doesn’t feel like we’ll run out of juice.

On the current status of Wolverine 3:

We’re pretty close to a script that everyone’s excited about, and I don’t know when the start date is, but we won’t start until it’s ready to shoot. What Hugh said to you is the attitude we all have—myself, Lauren Shuler Donner, the studio, [director] James Mangold, Hutch Parker—all of us, feel like this is six or seven or eight (depending on how you count) movies in the making, and there are few characters in the history of cinema who have cast as big a shadow as Wolverine, so to tell the final chapter of that story, it has to be the best, and it has to have a mythic quality to it. So we have to get it right, and I think we will, and my experience working with Jim Mangold, I’ve been extraordinarily impressed with him. He’s just a really great storyteller; he’s incredible with character. Really diligent, just a special talent. I have very high hopes for that movie...

I can’t talk about what [the story] is, but I will say that in its essence it’s something that Hugh has been excited about for a while, and something James Mangold is incredibly excited about, and the two of them together is a pretty neat thing to watch having made a movie together, and I thought they made a pretty good one. They just have a shorthand fluency and trust. It’s really nice to watch.

On whether The New Mutants is being developed with an eye for sequels:

Well I think that’s the way we approach each of these films now. It’s the way we approach Deadpool. It’s the way we approach Gambit. It’s the way we’re approaching New Mutants. The idea is that you want to tell one great story, but the first is the most important and building an audience that’s bigger than just the comic book following but satisfies the comic book following most importantly. So that first movie is always the most critical one. But the idea from an architectural standpoint is that you are building it so that there are more stories to tell and natural arcs. Interestingly, on X-Men: First Class we didn’t talk that much about what the future films would be with those characters. We were so focused on making that movie and so immersed in it, and coming out of it I spent a lot of time with Matthew Vaughn, actually, and Bryan Singer, talked about what future films could be were really only from the perspective of character. Like “What is the arc for these four main characters: Erik, Charles, Raven, and Hank? What story can we tell with them?” Once we figured out what the emotional arcs were for them, we discovered or went looking for plots for stories, for villains. But we built it from the inside out, putting character first. It’s the same way we’re approaching it with Gambit and Deadpool: what stories are we going to tell about their lives? And it’s something I think that when you look at the best sequel franchises, Star Wars being chief among them, what Marvel’s done being so extraordinary, they tend to be character-driven stories. The original trilogy for Luke is an amazing trilogy about a boy and his father. And then it grafts on story and action and all the external things we love about the movie, but it’s told from the inside out. But for all these films, the hope is we’re telling more than one story, but we don’t take any of that for granted.

Again, you can read the full interview over at Collider if you're interested. Which upcoming non-Marvel Studios superhero movie are you looking forward to the most?