The first Deadpool movie was released in 2016.
Deadpool premiered at the Grand Rex in Paris on February 8, 2016, before opening in the United States on February 12. Ryan Reynolds starred as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking mercenary who becomes the disfigured, accelerated-healing antihero Deadpool after an experimental treatment.
The film’s path to theaters was unusually long. Test footage made for a possible adaptation leaked online in 2014 and received an enthusiastic response from fans. 20th Century Fox then approved the project, giving director Tim Miller and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick a relatively modest budget and an R rating that allowed the film’s violent and irreverent tone.
The movie became a major commercial success, earning about $782.6 million worldwide against a reported $58 million budget. The 2014 date is associated with the test-footage leak, while 2017 belongs to neither the original film nor its sequel, Deadpool 2, which arrived in 2018.