If there has been one man pushing for a Deadpool movie for the last few years, it’s Ryan Reynolds. Having played a version of the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (a very unfaithful version it should be said), Reynolds has been an advocate of a “proper” movie and next year, his wish will be granted. So what was the key to getting the movie finally off the ground?
“Exclusively the leaked test footage, 100 percent,” Reynolds told Yahoo! Movies. “The initial [leak] came from Fox they think — someone recorded the footage on their iPhone and then released it. And then once that happened, somebody hacked into Blurred Studios and got the original footage in high-res and put it online”
“I was excited, because you can look back at an email chain from all of us, the core group involved in Deadpool, saying ‘We should leak this, f***er,’ like three years ago,” he continued. “Saying, ‘Hey, if this thing is going to stagnate, one of us should just say ‘Whoops, I slipped it online by accident.’ And nobody seemed to want to nut up and do that, myself included. Someone did it for us, years later, when we all completely assumed it was dead in the water.”
X-Men Origins: Wolverine was not Reynolds only stint in the comic book movie world, having played the titular role in Warner Bros. Green Lantern – a movie that was not well received when it was released in
“When we shot Green Lantern, nobody auditioning for the role of Green Lantern was given the opportunity to read the script, because the script didn’t exist,” Reynolds explains about his regrets. “I’m not complaining about it — it was an opportunity of a lifetime, and if I were to go back and retrace my steps, I would probably do everything the exact same way. But script, that’s what’s different on this one.”
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Deadpool is set for release in February 2016.
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Originally published February 4, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
