What 'Deadpool' and 'Fight Club' Have in Common

The new cover of Entertainment Weekly

The Vancouver set of Deadpool was evidently decorated more like Tyler Durden’s Fight Club than Xavier’s School for Gifted Youth.

The long-awaited Marvel flick, featuring Ryan Reynolds as the fan-favorite, foul-mouthed mercenary mutant, got the alternate cover treatment in Entertainment Weekly’s big Comic-Con preview issue, as you can see above. In the accompanying story, first-time feature director Tim Miller says that the film will stay true to the nature of the comic book character and dive into a seedy underworld that will prove a stark contrast to the chrome sheen of Bryan Singer’s X-Men films.

“I felt Fight Club and Tyler Durden were good corollaries,” he told the magazine. “We are in strip clubs and dive bars and crappy apartments and far away from the shiny X-Men world.”

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While speaking with Yahoo Movies earlier this year, Reynolds glowed about the film’s script, noting that it was a far cry from the muddled storytelling approach of his 2010 superhero bomb, The Green Lantern.

Ryan Reynolds in ‘Deadpool’ (Entertainment Weekly/Joe Lederer)

“The [Deadpool] script got leaked, and people even loved that. That says a lot — if you can create a script around a comic-book character that is directly within the canon of the character and be embraced,” he said. “That’s a huge step in the right direction. I’ve since learned that a lot of superhero movies don’t really have a fully functioning draft of the screenplay ready until they’re already well into shooting.”

Producer Simon Kinberg promised EW, that the script in question is definitely “a hard R” and makes for a “truly outrageous, boundary-pushing movie.”

Lucky fans might just get a Deadpool first look at Comic-Con. Meanwhile, the film hits theaters on February 12, 2016 — perfect for Valentine’s Day.