Its been nearly 10 years since Tim Miller stood on the stage at San Diego Comic-Con and revealed the first trailer for Deadpool, which had fans begging the filmmakers to play it a second time and kicked off a hugely successful franchise.

Now the director who has kept busy making two acclaimed adult animated series, Netflixs Love Death + Robots and Prime Videos Secret Level is ready to return to the superhero arena.

While discussing the new season of his Netflix series, The Hollywood Reporter asked Miller about what he would do to help revive the superhero game on this anniversary of Deadpool shaking up the genre. I think that the Marvel has this secret weapon they havent been able to unveil yet, which is the whole X-Men universe which is what got me into comics, Miller said. The X-Men are my favorite characters. I wrote [Marvel boss] Kevin Feige, and Im like, If there was ever anything that you would let me do in the Marvel Universe, please, the X-Men would be it. I had an X-Men movie in development at Fox when the merger happened, which would have been awesome. [It was based on] X-Men 143, which was Home Alone meets Alien.

Covering his bases a bit, Miller adds, But if DC ever gets around to doing The Authority, thats my favorite comic ever its the Justice League if they killed people. I think theres a lot of room left [in the genre], a lot of different stories to tell.

Miller notes that he was a big fan of the recently released Marvel effort Thunderbolts*, which received strong reviews though struggled a bit at the box office. I thought Thunderbolts* was an excellent film, he says. Florence Pugh was amazing. All the other actors did an amazing job and the action was good and grounded. Overall, the movie was thematically consistent. You kind of forget how much that matters when everything ties together in a way that feels super satisfying. (The films director, Jake Schreier, is in talks to direct Marvels first though surely not only X-Men effort.)

Asked if he feels he gets enough credit nowadays for launching Deadpool, a franchise which last year had the blockbuster third entry, Deadpool Wolverine, Miller says he does.

I am keenly aware that Ive gotten more than my fair share of credit for everything, Miller says. I got to be the luckiest nerd in the planet. I have nothing to complain about, and Ryan Reynolds fucking crushed it. I didnt expect to have my own studio. I didnt expect to do a feature, much less one that would be successful as Deadpool, or [make Terminator: Dark Fate]. Even though [Dark Fate] wasnt as financially successful at the time, its in the black now. And then to be able to do Love Death + Robots, which is probably my achievement Im most of. Also, Im old but Im not done yet.