lolwhut: “…[Deadpool] was just nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards, which means it could very well end up getting an Oscar nomination! [snip] The WGA nominations frequently predict what the Academy is going to recognize in their Adapted and Original Screenplay nominations.” You know, I would pay money to see that happen, actually. It won’t happen, mind you, because the people who made Deadpool would naturally Deadpool their way across the entire Oscar proceedings.
Twice.
…And the Academy surely knows this. Still: my God, but the shtick the Deadpool guys would come up with. It would be entirely uncontained, not to say uncontainable. We’d all tune in to watch the red carpet show, at least until the FCC yanked it off the air and then seeded the ground with salt…