Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds recently chatted to Entertainment Weekly about the upcoming sequel. Deadpool 2 has a much larger budget than than its predecessor’s $58 million, so with that in mind the expectation to go bigger must be very tempting. Reynolds mainly spoke about keeping that temptation in check in order to make sure the sequel retains the same look and feel of the first film.
“That’s the biggest mandate going into on the second film: to not make it bigger,” Reynolds said. “We have to resist the temptation to make it bigger in scale and scope, which is normally what you do when you have a surprise hit movie. It has to be tonally and stylistically be as fresh and original. That’s a big challenge especially because they had ten years to gestate on the first movie and we don’t have that kind of time on the second movie.”
Having John Wick‘s David Leitch at the helm of the sequel might help keep production costs down as Reynolds thinks “one of the things that David Leitch does that very few filmmakers can do these days is they can make a movie on an ultra tight minimal budget look like it was shot for 10-15 times what it cost.”
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As to the casting of fellow mutants Cable and Domino, they have yet to be decided, but we may be getting some news on that front soon as Reynolds told EW “we’re just in the development stage but we’re about to move into production.”
Originally published December 9, 2016. Updated April 16, 2018.
