DEADPOOL 2 - SPOILERS - All The Hidden Cameos Revealed, Including One From A Major THOR: RAGNAROK Star
With Deadpool now out in theaters worldwide, a new report has shared details on the film's biggest cameos, including one from a major Thor: Ragnarok star that you definitely didn't see coming.
Fandango recently caught up with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the co-writers and producers of Deadpool 2, and got all the intel on the film's biggest cameos, including a few that you almost definitely missed on your first watch.
Get all the details below, but be forewarned, the cameos are all extremely spoiler-y in nature, so proceed with caution:
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Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman may have declined to reprise his role as Wolverine, but that didn't exactly stop Ryan Reynolds and company from making sure that the beloved X-Men actor still had a major presence in the sequel. James Mangold's Logan is referenced several times and the sequel actually opens with a closeup of a handcrafted music box that contains an homage to Wolverine's death scene. Reese reveals that the music box was specially crafted for the film and is actually fully functional. "I think it was a Ryan idea to start that way, or he wanted to do a music box. A Logan music box. So they designed it, and it actually does turn and play. It did not play that song, because later we added in the Air Supply song and then we had to match the music to the Air Supply song, so we had the composer do the sing-song version. But it does turn! It does spin! I forget what song it actually plays, but, yeah, I mean we've got a lot of nods to a lot of movies, and we just decided to go ahead and kick it off with one. It gets a laugh." As for its current whereabouts, it sounds like it may have made its way to Reynolds' home.
Jackman also sort of appears during one of the post-credit stingers, which is very cool even if it's only through archive footage from X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
X-Men
One of the original film's best jokes saw Deadpool take a dig at Fox for only giving him the budget for two X-Men characters and the sequel contains a very similar joke as Wade wonders aloud why there are never any other X-Men around whenever he visits the X-Mansion. Well, as it turns out, this time, there were actually a handful of classic X-Men heroes onhand just around the corner.
In a very quick appearance, Professor X (James McAvoy), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), and Quicksilver (Evan Peters) all show up in the background of a scene while Wade is wandering around the mansion. They all appear in the same frame as Wade for a split second before Beast quietly and quickly shuts the door to avoid getting noticed by the unpredicable antihero. Wernick details the fun sequence,"Yeah, Fox is too cheap, so we thought we would nod to that, and just have a glimpse of them in the background. Simon Kinberg was directing the Dark Phoenix movie in Montreal, so we shot against a green screen and the mansion in Vancouver, and then he shot separately, later in the summer, a couple of months later. The actual cast, James McAvoy and those guys, and then we melded the two and composited the two together through visual effects. It's real brief, but it always gets a laugh."
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt was reportedly a finalist for Cable, but while that casting didn't exactly work out, the Academy Award-winner still managed to make a blink and you'll miss it appearance as Telford Porter, a.k.a. the Vanisher. He shows up during the parachute sequence and is blown into some electrical wires where he quickly meets his end along with the rest of Wade's ill-fated X-Force.
Reese explains how the A-list cameo to be, "That was a later cameo. In the script we never saw who Vanisher was. Then he gets sparked by the wires, and we thought, 'oh my god', perfect cameo. We were like, 'who's gonna say no, who's the first to say no, let's go after the hardest get in Hollywood', and so we reached out to Brad -- Ryan [Reynolds] did. Brad's kids loved the first movie, and so he jumped at the chance. He did it for scale, and a cup of coffee." Reynolds actually delivered on the coffee too, "Yes. That he insisted Ryan deliver to him on set, which happened. It was a real treat. That these massive A-list stars wanted to come on and play in your sandbox -- that's a real treat for us, and for Ryan. That Brad Pitt and Matt Damon want to be in our movie."
Matt Damon and Alan Tudyk
Yes, you read that right. Academy Award-winner Matt Damon (Jason Bourne), who also made a quick cameo in Thor: Ragnarok last year, is in Deadpool 2. He appears in the scene where Cable (Josh Brolin) arrives in present-day and is one of the two rednecks that are sitting in the pick-up truck, talking about how toilet paper is insufficiently hygienic. The other trucker's identity? Alan Tudyk (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).
Wernick detailed how Damon managed to pull off being in two very different Marvel blockbusters within six months, "Yes! He was also in Thor: Ragnarok (see above), and in this case he disappeared so deeply into it. We had him out on set and he was in heavy make-up, done by Bill Corso, so you could never tell it was him. That's why nobody notices him. He did a little riff on Matthew McConaughey's voice. If you listen, you'll kinda hear McConaughey. It almost sounds like it was McConaughey doing the cameo -- you'd never know, he's so good. He just falls right into the character, and you'd never know it was Matt."
Ryan Reynolds as the Juggernaut
By now, you all probably know that the unstoppable Juggernaut does indeed have a role to play in Deadpool 2, but what you probably didn't know is that Ryan Reynolds is the one who actually provides his voice. Get more details on that surprise by heading to the link HERE.
Also, considering that the mutant villain is still very much alive by the time the credits roll, Fandango asked the writers about whether or not we could see him return down the line as a future member of the X-Force. "Oh, that would be really fun. That's a good idea to have him come out of that pool and actually join up. He's fun, a fun character, and Ryan Reynolds did the voice. Not sure if you noticed that. He's a force of nature. Whether or not they need two big muscly guys if they're going to use Colossus or Juggernaut, we'll see, but why not? X-Force is very, morally flexible, and there is a lot of ambivalence and gray area there, relative to the X-Men, so maybe Juggernaut could be on the team - it'd be fun." said Wernick.
Post-Credit Shenanigans
After the controversial decision to kill off Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) before the opening credits rolled, the epic post-credits sequence managed to fix the timeline as Wade (Ryan Reynolds) went back in time to resurrect his lady love before also correcting a few of his other career missteps, including resurrecting Peter (Rob Delaney), Deadpool's role in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and his decision to accept the lead role in Green Lantern. Says Wernick, "It's all in good fun. And then we used the coda as an opportunity to bring some people back to life, and get some emotional closure, and some possible resurrections for future movies, and then also to go back and make fun, poke fun of Ryan's career a little bit. We had fun, and Hugh Jackman was great because he cameoed. Just by the virtue of the old footage, we needed his permission to use that footage and he's a buddy of Ryan's and they loved faux sniping at each other in the media which is really fun, and so Hugh said absolutely, you should definitely use it."
As for whether or not the post-credits stingers are canon in the two-movie Deadpool Cinematic Universe, well, it appears as though they are, meaning Vanessa will likely have a part to play in X-Force and/or Deadpool 3 whenever either movie finds its way into theaters. While Reese and Wernick both admit the stingers do essentially invalidate the events of the movie, it was an idea they just couldn't pass up. Wernick said, "Yeah, just go back in a time machine and fix everything. Why do we even have a movie? As long as you don’t think about it too hard, you’re fine." and Reese adds, "It was one we were willing to kind of forgive because it was such a fun idea."
After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World’s Best Lover.
Deadpool 2 features:
Director: David Leitch
Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool
Josh Brolin as Nathan Summers/Cable
Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle
Zazie Beetz as Neena Thurman/Domino
T.J. Miller as Weasel
Brianna Hildebrand as Ellie Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Stefan Kapičić as Colossus
Leslie Uggams as Blind Al
Karan Soni as Dopinder
Julian Dennison as Russell
Jack Kesy as Black Tom Cassidy
Terry Crews as Jesse Aaronson/Bedlam
Lewis Tan as Gaveedra-Seven/Shatterstar
Bill Skarsgård as Zeitgeist
Rob Delaney as Peter Wisdom
Shioli Kutsuna as Yukio
Eddie Marsan in an undisclosed role
Deadpool 2 slices and dices its way into theaters May 18