'Deadpool 2' to begin filming next year

LOS ANGELES, June 25 (UPI) -- The comic-book adaptation Deadpool 2 is scheduled to begin filming in early 2017, producer Simon Kinberg has confirmed.

"The guys, [Paul] Wernick and [Rhett] Reese, are working on the script, and we hope to have a script very soon," Kinberg told Collider.com at the 42nd annual Saturn Awards. "We hope to shoot the movie some time at the beginning of next year."

The sequel will also reunite actor Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller from the first picture, Nerdist.com noted.