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DEADPOOL ASSASSIN #1

THERE’S much love for the Merc with a Mouth at the moment.

His second movie is making box office bank, and he’s about to get a new six-part comic run.

Deadpool Assassin sees the Regeneratin’ Degenerate and his old pal Weasel team up to impose their special brand of justice on any other killers for hire who don’t live up to their moral code.

The first issue sees Wade travelling to a castle filled with stabby ninjas in his quest to beat the rest.

From writer Cullen Bunn (Wade Wilson in Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe) and artist Mark Bagley (Amazing Spider-Man), Deadpool Assassin #1 is out now priced £3.45.

DUKE JOINS US

HE PROVED a scene stealer as M’Baku in Black Panther, now Winston Duke, right, has been snapped up for Jordan Peele’s new movie.

The Oscar-winning director is currently starting work on his next thriller, US, and has already signed Duke’s Black Panther co-star Lupita Nyong’o.

Details about the plot of Peele’s new film are scant, but a teaser poster promises he’s creating a ‘new nightmare from the mind’.

Peele’s directorial debut, Get Out, which starred Daniel Kaluuya, bagged the actor an Oscar for best original screenplay.

US is planned to be in cinemas in March 2019.

RAIMI GOES SCI-FI

IT’S being reported that Sam Raimi has cast Ryan Reynolds, right, in the lead of his upcoming sci-fi adventure, Bermuda Triangle.

The Hashtag Show broke the news – as well as revealing some plot details.

The film will be based around the disappearance of a nuclear submarine in the Bermuda Triangle.

Called in to help recover the vessel, a Dr Fisk (likely to be Reynolds) accidentally opens a wormhole to a mysterious island inhabited by anything lost in the triangle including sharks, Vikings, and Nazis.

Sounds absolutely bonkers.