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Umpteen years after Ryan Reynolds first uttered “fuck yeah, I wanna play the merc with a mouth!”, Twentieth Century Fox has pushed the green button down (hard) on “Deadpool”. The long-gestating “X-Men” spin-off is due for release Feb 12, 2016.

Likely the cause of Fox’s sudden interest in doing “Deadpool” – after years and years of umming and aahing over it – was the hugely enthusiastic response to the leaked test footage that hit the web a few weeks back. The footage, featuring Reynolds as the red-suited anti-hero, was shot several years ago but only surfaced this year.

“The movie has been in a state of limbo for a while. There was such an overpowering reaction to the footage, you sort of feel like, ‘Oh, so we weren’t crazy for our reasons for loving this character, for loving this role.’ It’s interesting to see the power of the Internet. It’s awe-inspiring, actually,” Reynolds told the Niagara Falls Review. ”And it’s neat that Twitter and Facebook and Instagram can move mountains when used in the right way.”

Reynolds played a ‘version’ (if you can call it that) of the character in “X-Men Origins : Wolverine”, but the new film will assumingly have no ties to the earlier incarnation or that film. The actor, whose other superhero jaunt “Green Lantern” failed miserably, has been attached to play Wade Wilson/Deadpool for several years.

The project is the third collaboration between Reynolds and Marvel, following the aforesaid “Wolverine” and the equally dire “Blade Trinity”.

20th Century Fox’s 2015 schedule not only added “Deadpool” today but it saw the removal of Michael Fassbender-starrer “Assassin’s Creed” from the line-up (it won’t be ready in time) and had a new release date for “Fantastic Four” – which is shifting from June 19, 2015, to August 7.