James Cameron & David Fincher Praised The DEADPOOL Script
From David Fincher and James Cameron backing the Deadpool script, to how Ryan Reynolds and Tim Miller learned Deadpool was greenlit, and even what input Blake Lively had on the Deadpool suit. All that and more revealed. Hit the jump.
The recent embargo have lifted for lucky journalists who got to visit the set of Deadpool earlier this year. They now can write and dicuss what they saw. IGN got to visit the set and below is some interesting details on what they got to learn. If you would like to read more Deadpool movie facts, click DCMarvelFreshman's article on what Collider wrote about here. Below are just some interesting notes from what IGN reported on. If you'd like to read all of what IGN said, click the source to read their article.
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Ed Skrein, who plays Ajax, "This is not your average comic book project. We are not regurgitating anything that has been done before."
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The writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have been working on the on-again, off-again movie for six years, and for much of their time there was no greenlight. The original draft for the movie was an R-rated one, which at some point turned into a PG-13 one, before going back to the R-rated version currently being filmed.
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One of the changes to the original script was director Tim Miller wanting to alter the fighting itself. Reese and Wernick say Miller felt that the early script "had a lot of gun fighting at the expense of superhero fighting."
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Reese and Wernick state several Hollywood heavyweights put in a good word for the project when things seemed pretty dark. James Cameron was a proponent of the script as was David Fincher.
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Ryan Reynolds never received a call from Fox when they greenlit the film. He found out the same way we all did. Reynolds states it was "the weirdest greenlight I've ever heard of because they didn't tell us, they just dated the movie. There was a bit of a fever pitch after this test footage leaked and then suddenly we just see that in the trades, like everybody else, 'oh, they dated Deadpool for February 2016,' and we all sort of look at everybody and go 'we're either all making a movie or we've all just been summarily fired.'"
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Tim Miller was given a heads-up 30 minutes before the announcement was made. Miller was due to have a regular meeting with Fox about the movie that day, wondering on its progress, and as he puts it, "Me begging, 'can we make the movie,'" when he got the call that it was going forward.
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Deadpool is in some hand-to-hand combat with a guy from his past, someone named "Bob." He is never identified as "Bob, Agent of Hydra," but Deadpool knows him and has a friendly chat as the two square off.
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On why Reese and Wernick had Negasonic Teenage Warhead in the script, "It almost didn't matter what her powers were… we love the name so much [that she had to be worked into the movie]."
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead is a 15-year-old psychic who runs up to things and explodes them. She's Colossus' sidekick in the film and while she doesn't really get along with Deadpool.
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The dynamic between Reynolds' Deadpool and Ajax throught the film as Skrein states that it's "a revenge story from both sides."
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In the film, Carlysle and Deadpool have known each other intimately for years. Baccarin and Reynolds filmed something of a sex-through-the-holidays montage offering up "eight years of sex scenes [filmed] in one day."
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Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds's wife, had some input on Deadpool's suit. She noted during pre-production that she didn't like the "whiskering" of the suit in the crotch and Reynolds passed the note on to Miller.
Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life. Directed by Tim Miller, while starring Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson), Morena Baccarin (Vanessa Carlysle), T.J. Miller (Weasel), with Ed Skrein, and Brianna Hildebrand (Ellie Phimister), the much-hyped Deadpool is scheduled to open in theaters on February 12, 2016.
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