After the terrible initial on-screen version of the Merc with a Mouth seen in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, despite the pitch perfect casting of Ryan Reynolds, fans everywhere would be understood to be dreading the in-progress production of the Deadpool film.

Luckily, they just tapped some writers who may just be the fix the doctor ordered.

Announced just yesterday by Fox, the script for Deadpool will be handled by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.  Names don’t ring a bell?  They’re the writing duo behind this past fall’s Zombieland.

Having flawlessly mixed humor and violence to a beautiful degree on Zombieland, I see little to no reason to believe that Reese & Wernick won’t be a great writing team for Deadpool.  However, you need only look at the Star Trek relaunch and Transformers 2 to realize that two scripts by the same writers can go off in wildly different directions.

Hopefully this doesn’t stall the newly green-lit sequel to Zombieland, or cause one (or both) films to be harmed writing wise.

Source:  Fox taps ‘Deadpool’ writers - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety.