It's official: there will be a Deadpool movie.

Fox recently announced that a Deadpool movie is set in 2016, following the announcement that "X-Men: Apocalypse,"is on its way to production.

Wade Wilson, more popularly known as the disfigured and unstable Deadpool, will be portrayed on screen by Ryan Reynolds, the same actor who portrayed the character in the 2009 film, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."

Like Us on Facebook

"X-Men: Apocalypse" and the upcoming Deadpool movie will relate to each other, "X-Men: Days of Future Past" writer Simon Kinberg said, as he pointed out that Marvel Studios was an inspiration in the writing process.

"There's definitely a sort of overall plan that we've all been talking about for the X-Men universe now, and 'Deadpool' obviously fits into that," the writer said.

"I guess I would say it's part of certainly an overall timeline and thought process that goes into these films, some of which is inspired by the comics and some which is inspired by seeing what Marvel's done with telling a larger tapestry and linking all those movies together, even as they stand independently as well. The same kind of thought is going into these X-Men movies at Fox," he added.

Though the movies might be related, recent "Deadpool" comic books have drifted apart from the "X-Men" titles. The Hollywood Reporter said that viewers are advised to expect something like the relationship between "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," and not something like "Iron Man" and "The Avengers."

Kinberg also made note of Fox's approach to the original material. According to him, Fox is "trying to honor our favorite books," but not entirely being dependent on them when it comes to writing the story.

"I feel like that's what we did with 'Days of Future Past,' to some extent," he said.

Obviously, people knew the main story, but they sort of slowly learned some of the bigger decisions we were making as we were going... It was also organic to our process, the collaborative process with me, and [director] Bryan Singer, and [executive producer[ Lauren Shuler Donner, and the actors. It evolves. It evolves as it goes, which you want, because any good idea or new idea, we're game for and we're open to.

"Deadpool" will be released on February 12, 2016, while "X-Men: Apocalypse" is set to premier on May 27, 2016.

TagsRyan Reynolds, Deadpool