As the superhero genre continues to saturate the box office, studios are looking to break from typical superhero film conventions.
Goddard, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with The Martian, has been poised to direct a superhero film for quite some time now.
The search for a new Deadpool 2 director has been underway since, with reports coming in that David Leitch (John Wick) is a front-runner.
As a result of Deadpool‘s success, 20th Century Fox decided to fast-track production on a sequel, and announced plans for Deadpool 2 earlier this year.