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Ed Skrein confirms he’s Ajax in the Deadpool movie

April 8th, 2015 by Marc Comments

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The Deadpool movie is filming and on a near daily basis we’re getting new details…

The latest is that actor Ed Skrein, soon to be seen in the Transporter repboot, has gone to Twitter to tell the fans that he is the villain known as Ajax in the movie.

Ajax is part of the Weapon X programme in the comic origins of Deadpool. The programme which created Wolverine and plays a big part in the creation of Deadpool. Ajax fits into all this and is one of Deadpool’s arch-enemies. It’s probable he will be in the movie too.

Skrein Tweeted the image below of an onset chair with the character’s name on the back.

Deadpool will open in the UK and US on 12 February 2016.

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Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….