The Adam Project's Deadpool Reference Confirms The Truth Of Reynolds' Career
Warning! SPOILERS for The Adam Project.
While Netflix's The Adam Project features a hilarious reference to 2016's Deadpool, it affirms a core truth about Ryan Reynolds and his acting career. Especially within the last few years, it's become very evident that Reynolds excels at playing a very particular character who's not only an extension of himself but also varying degrees of his most extreme «out there» attributes, as exemplified by his Deadpool character. No matter which film he's in, traces of Ryan Reynolds's Deadpool can almost always be found. As such, The Adam Project highlights this truth in a pretty fun (and fittingly meta) way.
Directed by Shawn Levy, The Adam Project sees Reynolds playing a time-traveler from the future named Adam Reed who goes back in time and inadvertently meets his younger self (Walker Scobell). What follows is a sci-fi adventure where the two Adams embark on a mission to save the future. However, the film's third act features a reference to 2016's Deadpool, inarguably the biggest of Reynolds's various roles in Hollywood.
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The Deadpool reference in question is made by the younger Adam during the film's final battle to save the future. Getting ahold of the older Adam's lightsaber/battle staff, Young Adam uses it to jump across the room before making a dramatic (and familiar) landing. Young Adam even whispers, "Superhero landing." Combined with a look of surprise from Reynolds and the line having no previous setup elsewhere in the film, it's clearly a reference to Deadpool's Wade Wilson when he was excited to see the classic comic book movie trope (one knee and a fist down on impact).
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