Simon Kinberg Says 'Deadpool' Will Be Part Of X-Men Movie Universe

In a matter of months from test footage leaking this summer, the long-developing and once thought left-for-dead "Deadpool" project got a greenlight and is now slated for release in 2016. It's quite a turnaround for the "merc with a mouth," but there are still many questions to be answered. Mostly at issue is how the project —once seen as a wild offshoot from Fox's mainline X-Men series— will be approached in this era of franchise interconnectivity. Well, Simon Kinberg has the answer.

Chatting with Comic Book, the writer/producer revealed the quippy character will exist in the same world as everyone's favorite mutants. “There’s definitely a sort of overall plan that we’ve all been talking about for the X-Men universe now, and Deadpool obviously fits into that," Kinberg said. "So yeah, I guess I would say it's part of an overall timeline and thought process that goes into these films, some of which is inspired by the comics and some which is...