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Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy discuss the cameos, surprises and more in a emDeadpool & Wolverine/em spoiler interview.
The Big Picture As Deadpool & Wolverine continue their ascent at the box office, Collider's Steve Weintraub had the opportunity to chat with Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy for an interview Reynolds calls "the spoiler one where you're supposed to just get the chance to open up the robe completely, and I show you stuff." This gave us the chance to ask some of our most burning questions after the credits rolled. Now, we've got the answers all in one place.
Release Date July 26, 2024 Director Shawn Levy Cast Ryan Reynolds , Matthew Macfadyen , Morena Baccarin , Hugh Jackman , Karan Soni , Rob Delaney Runtime 128 minutes Writers Rob Liefeld , Fabian Nicieza , Paul Wernick , Wendy Molyneux , Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin Studio Marvel Studios Expand 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Rakes in Unholy Box Office Success COLLIDER: I'm going to obviously start with congratulations.
People genuinely love this movie, and they love the collaboration of the three of you. Have there been those additional phone calls after all this box office success at Marvel, being like, “So, let's talk about the future?” REYNOLDS: I will never ever say. Honestly, it would be easy for me and Shawn, and certainly Hugh and anyone else, my entire Maximum Effort company, to sort of position Disney and Marvel as the stern, uptight, conservative parents in this situation, but the reality was, it was the opposite. That was probably the biggest plot twist for all of us was that there was nothing but supreme and unconditional support from them.
LEVY: This is the cut of the movie. There will be no extended cut because this is the cut that we wanted. LEVY: Nothing terrified me more, Ryan. I'll admit this to you now, Deadpool 1 and 2 are awesome, and so the bar was high, but no aspect of that high bar scared me more than the title sequences because they're both so good. I remember spending a few sleepless nights thinking, “How can we meet that bar? How do we even have a chance of maybe exceeding it?” So that's why the reaction to the title sequence is so meaningful to me.
LEVY: We’ve all reached out to him, and Jim and I exchanged a really nice text before the movie came out. I don't know if he's watched yet. LEVY: You're right. That is what people have been waiting to see. Every Deadpool-Wolverine fight needed to have its own language and be differentiated. So the adamantium skeleton, the Void, and what's the opposite of a wide-open fight in the Void? A very contained space. It was in an early draft of our script where the screenwriting team wrote the idea of a fight in a minivan. That was not one of the long ones.
LEVY: Which, by the way, I'm sure is not what the Honda executive suite would have preferred as the apologetic advertisement for their brand, but that is the Deadpool thumbs-up. REYNOLDS: The first day of shooting, and honestly, it was born of the reality, which is, I can't think of a more impossible and frustrating role to recast than something like Wolverine. As an actor, it would be an awful and intimidating feeling stepping into that. You’d have to really reinvent it and take it a different way.
Chris Evans Had Ryan Reynolds “Giggling Like an Idiot” How happy was Chris Evans when you asked him, because he was going to be able to curse his brains out in a Marvel movie? LEVY: The only other time where Ryan could not keep it together was when Channing Tatum was doing the line about “laying them buttery nuts all up in my mouth.” I shot out of there, and I was like, “What’s up, dog?”
REYNOLDS: I don't recall being that bummed out. I understood why we had to strike and totally supported it, but I was sure we were never going to ever see them again or get them back. They were perfect. Really, the criteria for that casting and why we thought of them was that they were folks who just didn't have a third act. For me, there was a real personal connection to Wesley and Blade.
REYNOLDS: Props to Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick for the Chris Evans suggestion as Johnny Storm. They brought that one up, and boy, did we run with that. It was amazing. REYNOLDS: I love looking around as Wes comes in. Jen blows the roof off the place, and then it's like this layer cake of awesome that just keeps happening. When that playing card breaks the frame and then flies back into Channing’s fingers as you reveal… I don't know if there's a better feeling on Earth than that.
REYNOLDS: It's a little bit like what you don't see is, I think, more haunting than what you do see. Maybe I'm wrong, but Shawn and I felt like it would cheapen it if you're seeing all these people, these kids, these grown-ups… Really, the biggest win, I think, for us with the Wolverine character was two things—everybody places a lot of emphasis on the suit.
This was part of a treatment that I'd written in 2021 where Colossus dies, and he says a kind of a callback to Deadpool had been on this journey of self-discovery, or Wade had, basically, where he'd, similar to now, given up the Deadpool suit, given up violence, actually, and all these things, and kind of had been absorbed into a cult kind of vibe, that Colossus felt like he needed to get him out of. Anyway, so Deadpool doesn't swear, and it's very chaste.
Related Why Aren’t Cable and Domino in 'Deadpool & Wolverine'? “Almost like the studio couldn’t afford another X-Man.” One of my favorite bits in the entire film is in the first act. It’s the birthday party, you go into the hallway, and the TVA soldiers show up, and it's the dialogue you say to these guys. It brings tears to my eyes. I just can't believe what you say. I can't believe Disney approved it. I can't believe it's in multiplexes. It's fantastic. With something like that, how long does that actually take for you to write? Because it's just fucking great.
We had all we needed, though. As soon as we saw the imagery of Cassandra Nova’s hands in someone's face and head, we just thought that was so cool. It gave us a chance to see inside the minds of these guys for a moment, and what really makes them tick, and what really matters to them, the things that they don't say out loud. It was like a cheat code for that, too. And then, of course, Emma Corrin, they are utterly incredible at their job and so utterly enigmatic.
REYNOLDS: I would say the hideout where we see these legacy heroes, Blade, Gambit, X-23, and Elektra, only because there was so much anxiety around it. Each of these movies has one of those scenes in it that is like a 12 or 13-page scene, and those are always the scenes that you're asked to cut or cut down because conventional wisdom would say you can't maintain one location or one scene for that long in these kinds of movies that are so action-driven.
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