James Gunn's Facebook Rant On Ryan Reynolds' 'Deadpool' Disses Anti-Hollywood Execs

The Ryan Reynolds-starring superhero film Deadpool came out last weekend and it's broken every R-Rated film record out there in the past few days. Now, the Guardians of the Galaxy director and Marvel enthusiast James Gunn recently took to Facebook to rant about how Hollywood executives see every superhero movie's success as a chance to copy each of the things that made it unique.

According to Vulture, the filmmaker, who's currently working on Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, took to the social network to reveal his frustration with the way things are done in Hollywood. In the sense that whenever a film that took chances was successful, there's a quick succession of projects just like it.

In an expletive-filled Facebook post, Gunn revealed he was sick of how "people here in Hollywood love to throw out the definitive reasons why the movie was a hit," saying it had happened when his Marvel Cinematic Universe film was released.

A Hollywood executive told Deadline that Deadpool's success came from making fun of the genre, to which Gunn responded that there was no need to "rewrite history" on the matter, adding that films like Iron Man and most recently Ant-Man had done their fair share of self-mockery.

Similarly to Deadpool, Guardians was a semi-obscure comic book that people weren't too aware of, but after the film came out, it made hundreds of millions in the box office. At the time, lines like "it wasn't afraid to be fun" and "colorful and funny" were thrown around, and the film's style was subsequently copied ... and Gunn doesn't want that to happen to Fox's R-Rated superhero.

"Deadpool wasn't that. Deadpool was its own thing," Gunn wrote on his lengthy Facebook post. "THAT'S what people are reacting to. It's original, it's damn good, it was made with love by the filmmakers, and it wasn't afraid to take risks."

For now, Gunn's fortune-telling regarding Deadpool's success is a bit on the dark side: he thinks studios will just green light movies that are "raunchy" or break the fourth wall, without necessarily minding actual content.