DEADPOOL Viral Video and More Promotional Videos Watch the new DEADPOOL viral video and more promotional videos! The film, directed by Tim Miller, stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, Andre Tricoteux, and Ed Skrein. DEADPOOL will be released in theaters next Friday. Based upon Marvel Comics most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts an alter ego. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.