Deadpool and Wolverine (Deadpool and Wolverine) It’s just around the corner. The only Marvel Studios movie of 2024 will premiere on July 25. That’s when both characters will finally make their debut MCU. So much Hugh Jackman How Ryan Reynolds They have already given life to their characters together in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But that one Dead Pool It was not the same as now. So this new combination is destined to be explosive.
In addition, the film will mark the return of Jackman How Wolverine after announcing that he was hanging up his claws for good Logan back in 2017. Curiously, it was he who came up with the idea to break his word and return hand in hand with Mercenary with a mouth“I meant exactly that when I announced that Logan This was supposed to be the last time. I announced it before filming. LoganThree days later I saw Dead Pool. Was it 2016? At the 15-minute mark of the film I thought, “Oh, maybe I should have watched this first,” the Australian begins at a press conference Deadpool and Wolverine which Hipertexual was able to attend.
“For the next four or five years, I could see these two characters together. I would watch the film and keep thinking about it. Limit: 48 hours, Odd couple, Better alone than in bad company…And the only thing I could see was how these two characters would work,” the actor continues. It was after watching all those classic buddy movies that he realized Deadpool and Wolverine It was bound to happen at some point or another.
“I can tell you the date: August 14th. I was performing at the theater on August 14th, 2022. I was driving and it just came to me, like a flash in my head. That I want to do this again, that I want to do this with Ryan Oral translation Dead Pool and that I wanted these two characters to be together and I knew it Sean And Ryan were going to shoot or at some point in the process. So I pulled over to the side of the road, called and said:Ryan“I want to do it. Please tell me you’ll do it. Please tell me I really want to do it,” he recalls. Jackman.
Ryan Reynolds’s Answer
This call came as a complete surprise to Ryan Reynoldswhich explains that not only did they not make the film, they were nowhere near getting the story greenlit by Marvel and Disney. “Today, when someone calls you on the phone… Hugh He called me and I was like, ‘Are you dead?’ Why are you on the phone?” he jokes back to his partner and friend. That call was the seed of what’s happening now. Deadpool and Wolverine.
“After a pause, you said, ‘This is incredible timing because in about three hours we’re going to have a meeting to pitch our latest proposal to Marvel,’” he continued. Jackman. And, in fact, Reynolds For some time he tried to convince the management of La Casa de las Ideas to allow him to make a third film. Dead Pool after Disney purchased 20th Century Fox.
Original idea
“I asked the wishing star to wear a yellow suit next to me one day, like Dead Pool. And I tried… My first proposal for Marvel was a movie Deadpool and Wolverine. A unique style of narration Rashomon where the first act is, of course, subjective, as it should be in the style of the story Rashomon. The first act is through the prism of my experience. This is how I see it. Wolverine in a way. The second act is like Wolverine He sees me in a certain way. And the third act is an objective experience,” he reveals. Reynolds.
Even then, his great desire was to unite the heroes, albeit with a completely different story than the one that is now playing in cinemas. “I proposed this to them and Kevin Feige He may not have used those exact words, but he said, “No.” I think there was also “absolutely no” and “the exit is there,” the actor adds. Despite his efforts and enthusiasm, that first version Deadpool and Wolverine was rejected by Marvel Sudios. “All I hear is ‘sequel.’ Thank you for submitting our sequel,” he jokes. Shawn Levy.
“I ended up presenting a short film in which Dead Pool He interrogates the guy and we find out it’s the hunter who shot him. Bambi“, check Reynolds then between laughter. “It’s crazy that they let this happen,” the director insists. Deadpool and Wolverine“But Disney said, ‘We don’t fuck with Bambi‘. I was like, ‘Oh, okay. I’m sorry. I didn’t know it was a sacred cow. How many other mothers have you killed? I mean, in every movie, the mother…’ Same thing, the first pitch was like that, and five years later it was actually Hugh who… We had a sort of last attempt. We wrote another film, for which Sean and I was going to dedicate myself, and he called,” he concludes. Reynoldswhich combines both anecdotes. “It was as simple as failing until we succeeded,” he sums up.
The heart of the film
One day they were reunited with Feige and those responsible for Marvel after the call Jackmaneverything was much simpler. “We were on Zoom with Kevin and my team and I did stupid things to get to the bottom of it. Sean and I said, “Well, what if we get a call?” It seems like a fluke, like madness, but Hugh He called us today and said he wants to come back. I know that. Kevin and I had already explored this path before, but…” And then we presented our film in a vague form,” explains the film’s protagonist. Deadpool and Wolverine.
“As soon as Hugh called, as soon as we finally looked at this duet, this story, this duet, gave this third film Dead Pool why. He gave us the essence of this story and the heart of the film,” thank you. Levi. The director is well aware that the intervention Jackman with his ideas about the buddy, the film became the key to Deadpool and Wolverine came true.
Deadpool and Wolverine will be released in cinemas worldwide on July 25.
Source: Hiper Textual
