Deadpool Movie Cast News, Rumors: MMA Superstar Gina Carano Joins as Angel Dust

By Arvin Donguines, Christian Post Contributor Monday, February 16, 2015

Latest casting news for the highly anticipated X-Men spinoff "Deadpool" indicated that former women's MMA superstar Gina Carano is now joining its growing cast member's list.

The Hollywood Reporter saying that the 32-year-old athlete-turned-actress has landed a role opposite lead star Ryan Reynolds in the movie about the Merc with a Mouth.

According to the publication, the Muay Thai practitioner will play the role of Angel Dust. Although details weren't clear as to how her character will fit the big screen narrative, it was however known in the comics that Dust was part of an "underground mutant group known as The Morlocks."

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The little known mutant has the ability that enables her to gain superhuman strength by voluntarily altering her adrenaline levels.

THR went on to report that before "Deadpool," Conviction will first appear opposite Bruce Willis in "Extraction," and action film from Emmet-Furla and Aperture Entertainment.

Carano's very first well-known big screen involvement was in Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire." It was followed in films like "Furious 6" and "In the Blood."

"Deadpool" will be produced under the direction of Tim Miller and is said to commence this March in Vancouver.

Script was written by "Zombieland" duo Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick which will focus on Wade Winston Wilson, an assassin who has cancer. Wilson undergoes a procedure that was intended to cure him of the disease. Unfortunately, the operation has gone awry ending him up becoming a person who is heavily disfigured, mentally unstable, yet with amazing regenerative capabilities.

"Deadpool" is slated to open in theaters on Feb. 12, 2016.