FILM · 2016 · USA
Deadpool
- Directed by
- Tim Miller
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox, The Donners' Company, Genre Films
365 archived facts 8 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Nov 2026
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.
365 Interesting Facts About Deadpool
Interesting Facts (80)
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This is the tenth Marvel movie that has shown nudity in some manner. The other Marvel movies are Howard the Duck (1986), Hulk (2003), The Punisher (2004), Blade: Trinity (2004), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), The Incredible Hulk (2008), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), The Wolverine (2013), and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). Logan (2017) follows this film as the eleventh film in this list, and both are the only movies rated R for frontal nudity.
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Ryan Reynolds describes Deadpool's "breaking the fourth wall" ability as a reflection of current times, "I think Deadpool's coming along at the right time, because it's speaking to that generation that has seen all these comic-book films and enjoyed them all; it's speaking to them as though the guy in that red suit is one of them. It's like watching a DVD commentary by someone who's got some pop-culture savvy and is kind of funny and a little obnoxious and is saying the things that you wouldn't say."
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(at around 28 mins) "The city that rhymes with fun" is the unofficial slogan for Regina, Saskatchewan. The real slogan is "The Queen City". Ryan Reynolds also filmed the movie Just Friends (2005) in Regina.
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(at around 19 mins) Upon further inspection of the Deadpool list in Weasel's bar, with the exception of Weasel's choice of Wade Wilson and Wade Wilson's J. Boothe, the rest of the names are famous celebrities. Listing in APA format (starting with the left column, from top to bottom): Bill Cosby, Charlie Sheen, Ye, (Wade Wilson), Vladimir Putin, (J. Boothe), Ryan Reynolds, T.J. Miller, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, Kid Rock, Mike Tyson, Judd Nelson, Lil' Wayne, Shia LaBeouf, Ned Beatty, Rob Liefeld, Ozzy Osbourne, Amanda Bynes, Arnold Palmer.
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Tim Miller felt that while it was okay for audience members to not understand all of the jokes in the film, he wished to avoid things specifically targeted to comic fans: "Any joke that an audience needs to look up on the internet after watching the movie is not something I'm in favour of."
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In the final climax scene, the crashed aircraft carrier looks like a helicarrier from the Avengers movies. However, since the X-Men franchise is owned by 20th Century Fox Studios, and the Avengers franchise is owned by Marvel Studios, director Tim Miller designed it to look as much like the Avengers carriers as he could without crossing the line and risking a lawsuit by Marvel Comics. Marvel Entertainment and 20th Century Fox had a long standing battle over what could and couldn't be used in each other's films at the time.
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A few days after the film got its official R rating from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), there was an online petition made by a woman who requested a PG-13 cut of the film to be released in theaters. This request to 20th Century Fox was done for her 8 year old son who wanted to see the film. Though the request wasn't fulfilled, it sparked such controversy among fans of the Deadpool character and cinema fans. The controversy is mainly due to the attempted censorship of a film directed toward mature audiences for the appeasement of younger audiences.
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(at around 39 mins) The scene in which Deadpool breaks his hands and leg, after attempting to punch and kick Colossus, is inspired by a similar scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) where King Arthur battles the black knight. King Arthur cuts off the black knight's limbs one after the other but the black knight keeps fighting back.
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(at around 9 mins) When Colossus is first shown, eating cereal and watching a news report about Deadpool, he is in the kitchen where Wolverine and Bobby Drake (Iceman) were when Xavier's School was attacked by William Stryker in X2: X-Men United (2003), which also features the first live action appearance of Colossus.
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The song "Careless Whisper" is referenced throughout the film as being performed by Wham!. This was confusing for a lot of audience members outside North America and Japan, because in the rest of the world, the song was released as the first solo single by George Michael; even the end credits list only George Michael as performer, and his fellow Wham! member Andrew Ridgeley as writer only.
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Tim Miller's debut as a feature film director. However, his company, Blur Studios, was involved in the early days of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ahead of the production of the first Iron Man (2008) movie, Marvel Entertainment was concerned that their younger fan-base would not know who Iron Man was, and hired Blur to produce shorts demonstrating that there was a man in his suit, that he used gadgets and technology and that he was a respected friend of more familiar Marvel Comics characters.
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Deadpool also has his own species of fly named after him. The Deadpool fly is a species of Robber fly, which are "assassins of the insect world"-- fitting for the mercenary antihero. Its colored orange-red and black, the same as Deadpool's suit -- and it shares similar markings as Deadpool's mask. "We chose the name Humorolethalis sergius (for Deadpool). It sounds like lethal humor and is derived from the Latin words humorosus, meaning wet or moist, and lethalis meaning dead," said CSIRO entomologist Dr. Bryan Lessard.
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(at around 1h 16 mins) When Wade is leaving his friends to do battle with Ajax/Francis at the scrapyard, there is a statuette on a shelf or mantle behind Blind Al. It is the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award (or a duplicate) from the '60s anthology, Laugh-in where the hosts gave out the weekly award. It depicts a 'finger gun' with a bandage or wings on the index finger.
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Greg LaSalle who provided the facial movements for Colossus revealed the vomiting scene was the most challenging. He stated "Colossus can't stand the sight of blood, so he almost instantaneously vomits when he sees blood. Trying to vomit when you're acting is an incredibly physically draining thing. Unfortunately, since motion capture, like I was saying, you just do the takes, loop and loop and loop. By the time you do 10 vomit sequences, and there aren't that many in the film, but you're doing it over and over again to try and modify that. I actually was almost really vomiting on the cameras, because your whole body has to get into it to make it look real. You know, you can't pretend to vomit, it'll look like you're pretending to vomit. So, at one point director Tim Miller was like, 'Dude, you got to stop, because you're going to pass out and you're going to throw up on the cameras.' That was incredibly physically challenging".
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Composer Tom Holkenborg noted that Deadpool only makes musical references from before 1990 in the film, and so used sounds from the 1980s, which included synthesizers, an Oberheim and a Synclavier for the film soundtrack. Holkenborg liked that the classic synthesizer sound was originally imposing and portentous, but sounded silly and weird to modern audiences - the perfect sound for a superhero parody.
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Tim Miller held off on working on the CGI for Colossus until after the film was edited, to avoid spending money on shots that would not be used. The Bluray edition features a few deleted scene extensions with Colossus, where he is indeed played by a stand-in wearing a motion-tracking suit, or replaced by a very rough CGI effect.
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When recently screened on FX Network for its world premiere in April 2018, Deadpool (2016), had a scene unavailable on disc, it showed Deadpool in a pink costume and surrounded by pink movie props from the movie to schill for "FUCK CANCER". To see this outfit and have a chance to win assorted "swag", you have to visit omaze.com/Deadpool to donate and help fight cancer. This includes his pink outfit, T-shirts with FUCK CANCER emblazoned on and other products to win if you donate to FUCK CANCER.
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(at around 1h 26 mins) One spectacular scene from the showdown, realized by Digital Domain, sees NTW use her explosive powers to launch Deadpool on a piece of metal up to an area that Ajax has the superhero's girlfriend hostage. "Tim described Negasonic Teenage Warhead to me as a fuel air bomb," says Jonathan Rothbart. "They're these bombs where they launch them and explode but only ignite when the fuel spreads out. So you get this massive combustion moment but spread out into this huge large area. But we also needed something to show the genesis of the effect, so DD came up with something that looks like the solar flares of the sun."
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When Deadpool, Colossus and NTW confront Ajax and Angel Dust, Ajax tells Deadpool to Say My Name (a Call-Back to Wade's "activation" in the workshop). Deadpool mutters "Imma spell it out for you." After dispatching the group of mooks, a shot from Ajax's viewpoint shows Deadpool standing next to the bodies of nine mooks, arranged to spell out "Francis". The letter "I" is dotted with a mook's severed head. And one of the corpses is mooning him. Ajax says [to Vanessa] "Does he write you notes, too? He's such a romantic!"
Production Story (68)
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China refused to grant a certificate so the film could be shown in the country. While China's film import market is best known for supporting or blocking films based on how they present Chinese characters and stories (where applicable), that was not a factor with "Deadpool" as China also often censors out extreme violence, profanity, and sex from movies before release, and this film contains a large amount of all three. While the Chinese censors did consider such an edit here, they ultimately decided that the cuts needed to make "Deadpool" into a general audience picture would make it incomprehensible, and thus decided not to have the film in Chinese theaters at all.
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Screenwriter Rhett Reese and director Tim Miller credited James Cameron and David Fincher with helping the movie get made. Both directors read and loved early drafts of the script and used their long history with 20th Century Fox to convince executives to give the movie a go. The studio initially consented to a PG-13 version only but agreed to an R rating after some budget cuts. Miller ended up working with Cameron on Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).
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Tim Miller felt that while it was okay for audience members to not understand all of the jokes in the film, he wished to avoid things specifically targeted to comic fans: "Any joke that an audience needs to look up on the internet after watching the movie is not something I'm in favour of."
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Because of the animation required for Deadpool's mask and Colossus, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had more freedom than usual to keep adjusting the script during post-production. Ryan Reynolds recorded new lines of dialogue using his iPhone, and then re-recorded the lines in an additional dialogue recording session once the film was finalized. Lines added after filming included Reynolds doing an impression of Wolverine star Hugh Jackman's natural Australian accent, and another where Deadpool asks whether the character Professor X is being portrayed by James McAvoy or Sir Patrick Stewart at that point in the X-Men timeline, which became a favorite line in the film for many audience members.
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Wyre was initially going to appear as a henchman to Ajax/Francis, but was cut primarily for budgetary reasons as his powers required complicated visual effects. Cable was considered for an appearance as well, but it was decided that he would work better in the sequel, in which he appears as a main character.
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A few days after the film got its official R rating from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), there was an online petition made by a woman who requested a PG-13 cut of the film to be released in theaters. This request to 20th Century Fox was done for her 8-year-old son who wanted to see the film. Though the request wasn't fulfilled, it sparked such controversy among fans of the Deadpool character and cinema fans. The controversy is mainly due to the attempted censorship of a film directed toward mature audiences for the appeasement of younger audiences.
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Marvel Comics characters Cannonball and Garrison Kane were deleted from subsequent rewrites of the script, with the latter specifically being omitted due to budgetary concerns over the required CGI for his cybernetic arms, and the former being omitted due to concerns he would have been a "stupid hick character."
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When 20th Century Fox refused to pay the writers of the film, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, for on-set input, Ryan Reynolds paid out of his own pocket for them to be on set to look over the film. Reese stated, "We were on set every day. Interestingly, Ryan wanted us there, we were on the project for six years. It was really a core creative team of us, Ryan, and director Tim Miller. 20th Century Fox, interestingly, wouldn't pay for us to be on set. Ryan Reynolds paid out of his own money, out of his own pocket."
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When recently screened on FX Network for its world premiere in April 2018, Deadpool (2016) had a scene unavailable on disc; it showed Deadpool in a pink costume surrounded by pink movie props from the movie to schill for "FUCK CANCER". To see this outfit and have a chance to win assorted "swag", you have to visit omaze.com/Deadpool to donate and help fight cancer. This includes his pink outfit, T-shirts with FUCK CANCER emblazoned on and other products to win if you donate to FUCK CANCER.
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Ryan Reynolds has been attached to the Deadpool character as far back as 2004. It originally came to him during production on Blade: Trinity (2004). "Say what you will about that movie, but it brought me great things. It actually was a lot of fun, I got to sort of improvise and goof around, and looking back at it I was kind of in a weird way playing Wade Wilson."
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Composer Tom Holkenborg noted that Deadpool only makes musical references from before 1990 in the film, and so used sounds from the 1980s, which included synthesizers, an Oberheim and a Synclavier for the film soundtrack. Holkenborg liked that the classic synthesizer sound was originally imposing and portentous, but sounded silly and weird to modern audiences - the perfect sound for a superhero parody.
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Instead of conventional opening credits, the producers, main actors, writers, and director are all identified at the beginning of the movie by epithets such as "some douchebag's film," "produced by asshats," starring "God's perfect idiot" (accompanied by a shot of Ryan Reynolds's "Sexiest Man Alive" People Magazine cover), "a hot chick" (Morena Baccarin), "a British villain" (Ed Skrein), "a gratuitous cameo" (Stan Lee), and "a CGI character" (Stefan Kapicic as the voice of Colossus), written by "the real heroes here" (Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick) and directed by "an overpaid tool" (Tim Miller).
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Early drafts of the script featured a joke where it would have been revealed that Deadpool's mask was actually a store-bought Spider-Man mask that had been turned inside out. This was presumably cut due to potential legal issues, as Spider-Man's film rights were owned by Sony Pictures Studios and later partly by Walt Disney Studios.
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Ryan Reynolds was already a huge fan of the character Deadpool long before this movie was considered by the studio, and he had read the comics for nearly a decade. He got his chance to play Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and he deeply dislikes the way that film portrayed him. He decided to produce and finance part of this film both as a way to satisfy his own desire to play his favorite comic book character and as an apology to other fans who were disappointed by the previous film.
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Early drafts of the script featured a joke where it would have been revealed that Deadpool's mask was actually a store-bought Spider-Man mask that had been turned inside out. This was presumably cut due to potential legal issues (as Spider-Man's film rights were owned by Sony Pictures Studios and later partly Walt Disney Studios).
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Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds wept when they saw the completed costume, with Reynolds explaining that "we fought like hell ... to make this the most faithful comic book to movie adaptation fans have ever seen. That's hard to accomplish and a feat, but we're just so happy with how this came out."
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It took Ryan Reynolds forty minutes to get into the suit early on, but he got it down to ten by the time they wrapped. They had nine suits and destroyed seven of them. "I think it's the most faithful comic book to screen adaptation of a super suit ever," he adds, which explains in part why he stole it from the set. "I just walked off set with it and basically told them to go fuck themselves. I waited ten years to do the movie, and if they want to take the suit back they can come try and take it from me."
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T.J. Miller felt he was cast as Weasel because he "looks like his superhero power is spilling mustard on his shirt" and producer Simon Kinberg added that an actor was needed "who could keep up with Reynolds comedically"; Miller attempted to give his character a facial tic, but director Tim Miller rejected the idea.
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Marvel Comics characters Cannonball and Garrison Kane were deleted from subsequent rewrites of the script, with the latter specifically being omitted due to budgetary concerns over the required CGI for his cybernetic arms, and the former being omitted due to concerns he would have been a "stupid hick character."
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For Deadpool's scarred appearance, director Tim Miller wanted him to appear "fucking horrible" to justify his anger in the film, while makeup designer Bill Corso had some leeway because in the comics "he's everything from a rotten corpse to a guy with a couple of lines on his face". Corso acknowledged the script's description of the character as disfigured but also wanted him to be "still kind of charming and iconic". He wanted to avoid comparisons to Freddy Krueger, and looked to Sin City (2005) for inspiration. The final makeup required nine silicone prosthetics to cover Ryan Reynolds' head which took several hours to apply. For the scene where the character is naked, it took 6 hours to apply the full body makeup to Reynolds. Corso describes the makeup for the rest of the film's character as "...pretty simple. Tim wanted to keep it really grounded".
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Because of the animation required for Deadpool's mask and Colossus, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had more freedom than usual to keep adjusting the script during post-production. Ryan Reynolds recorded new lines of dialogue using his iPhone, and then re-recorded the lines in an additional dialogue recording session once the film was finalized. Lines added after filming included Reynolds doing an impression of Wolverine star Hugh Jackman's natural Australian accent, and another where Deadpool asks whether the character Professor X is being portrayed by James McAvoy or Sir Patrick Stewart at that point in the X-Men timeline, which became a favorite line in the film for many audience members.
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Screenwriter Rhett Reese and director Tim Miller credit James Cameron and David Fincher for helping the movie get made. Both directors read and loved early drafts of the script, and used their long history with 20th Century Fox Studios to convince executives to give the movie a go. 20th Century Fox initially consented to a PG-13 version only, but agreed to an R rating after some budget cuts.
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Atomic Fiction created a freeway environment for the "Twelve Bullets Fight", with a backdrop based on Detroit, Chicago, and Vancouver. The vendor also created the vehicles in the sequence. These assets were used by Blur for the opening titles, which moves through a frozen moment where Deadpool is fighting thugs inside a crashing car. It includes titles such as "Directed by an overpaid tool" and "Produced by asshats", with Ryan Reynolds, Tim Miller, and the writers coming up with their own credits in the hope of setting the tone for the rest of the film.
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Colossus' height in the comics is 6'6" as flesh and 7'5" as metal. Stand-in Andre Tricoteux is 6'8" tall (two inches taller than the human height) whilst voice actor 'Stephan Kapicic' is 6'4" (two inches shorter than the human height). Tricoteux wore 8-inch heels, making him an inch shorter than Colossus' metal height. His predecessor, Daniel Cudmore, was 6'7" tall, an inch taller than Colossus' human height.
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The different vendors all collaborated for the final battle sequence, which takes place in the wreckage of a helicarrier: Luma created the climactic fight between Deadpool and Ajax; DD created the majority of the Colossus effects, except for when he is damaged later on, which was handled by Blur Studio; DD also created the effects for Negasonic Teenage Warhead's abilities as well as expanding the helicarrier's deck; Rodeo contributed matte paintings for the background; and Weta provided the facial animation for Deadpool. Negasonic's abilities were the only "supernatural effect-sy thing" in the film, and were based on fuel-air explosives and solar flares to try ground them in reality. Setting the final sequence on the wrecked helicarrier was Tim Miller's idea, to help expand the scope of the third act and include more connections to the comics and wider Marvel Universe. To avoid rights issues with Marvel Studios, the helicarrier for Deadpool was designed to be "as different as possible from the one in The Avengers."
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Wade briefly mentions treatment centers in Mexico where they can treat 'El Cancer'. A long sequence was removed from the film where Wade and Vanessa travel to a Mexican clinic, looking for a miracle cure after he turns down the recruiter. Wade notices how the clinic rips people off financially, and then sees a doctor performing 'psychic surgery' on a fellow patient, a medical hoax where the tumors are supposedly manually pulled out of the body without making cuts. Wade then confronts the doctor, and they get into a violent argument that ends in the latter's death. The Mexico sequence was removed for pacing reasons, and because it would make the film darker in tone. It was replaced with a short scene of Wilson sitting beside his window that was originally filmed to show him thinking about his diagnosis, but in the new context, it implies him re-thinking the recruiter's offer.
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As soon as editor Julian Clarke began selecting shots for the film, they were color graded by EFILM's Tim Stipan to ensure that they matched with each other. Stipan colored the characters slightly differently, such as giving Deadpool a "dark, modern touch" and Colossus a "particular vibrancy and substance." Clarke edited each scene focusing on humor, choosing between alternate takes of jokes. He removed jokes made after Vanessa is kidnapped because they felt inappropriately timed, and cut down other scenes with less jokes such as Wade being tortured as they were "too much. You took too long to recover [and] get back in the irreverent spirit of the movie." During editing, a linear version of the film was produced. They decided to go with interweaving the timelines to balance the different serious and silly tones.
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A 3-minute test reel was shot in January 2012 in an attempt to convince the heads of the studio to move forward with the movie. On August 1, 2014, the footage was released to the public and, based on the overwhelmingly positive response from fans, the film finally began production. The footage was so popular that part of it was recreated for the actual film. This included the opening scene with Deadpool on the highway which leads to the fight scene in the car.
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Throughout the film, Deadpool accuses the studio of not having enough money to pay for several elements in the movie. In fact, Fox Studios cut $7 million from the film's budget at the last minute, necessitating several rewrites. Items cut from the film included a motorcycle chase between Wade and Francis, the addition of more named villains, and several action sequences. For the latter, the fights were scaled down by having Deadpool forget to bring his ammo and gun bags.
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They originally wanted the end credits scene to feature Beast defecating on Wilson's lawn and then running off as Wilson shakes his morning newspaper, but they had to settle for a joke about it instead. "Nicholas Hoult was game," says Ryan Reynolds, but they couldn't make their schedules work.
Behind the Scenes (63)
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The different vendors all collaborated on the final battle sequence, which takes place in the wreckage of a helicarrier: Luma created the climactic fight between Deadpool and Ajax; DD created the majority of the Colossus effects, except for when he is damaged later on, which was handled by Blur Studio; DD also created the effects for Negasonic Teenage Warhead's abilities as well as expanding the helicarrier's deck; Rodeo contributed matte paintings for the background; and Weta provided the facial animation for Deadpool. Negasonic's abilities were the only "supernatural effect-sy thing" in the film, and were based on fuel-air explosives and solar flares to try to ground them in reality. Setting the final sequence on the wrecked helicarrier was Tim Miller's idea, to help expand the scope of the third act and include more connections to the comics and wider Marvel Universe. To avoid rights issues with Marvel Studios, the helicarrier for Deadpool was designed to be "as different as possible from the one in The Avengers."
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Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds wept when they saw the completed costume, with Reynolds explaining that "we fought like hell ... to make this the most faithful comic book to movie adaptation fans have ever seen. That's hard to accomplish and a feat, but we're just so happy with how this came out."
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Atomic Fiction created a freeway environment for the "Twelve Bullets Fight", with a backdrop based on Detroit, Chicago, and Vancouver. The vendor also created the vehicles in the sequence. These assets were used by Blur for the opening titles, which moves through a frozen moment where Deadpool is fighting thugs inside a crashing car. It includes titles such as "Directed by an overpaid tool" and "Produced by asshats", with Ryan Reynolds, Tim Miller, and the writers coming up with their own credits in the hope of setting the tone for the rest of the film.
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Production designer Sean Haworth also worked closely with Tim Miller, who had specific ideas for the sets. The production had to be very specific about which elements of each set were built physically to conserve the budget for visual effects. For the final scrapyard scene, garbage was built to a certain height to be extended with CGI, and a gimbal was used for a tilting section of the yard that had to interact with a lot of digital elements. That final sequence was filmed in a naval yard and was dressed with scrap metal. Rubber casts of the metal were made for stunts.
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Tim Miller and cinematographer Ken Seng wanted the film to look "grittier and less clean and glossy" than other superhero films, and decided to shoot with digital cameras but add film grain in post-production to keep texture in the images. Seng used Super Baltar lenses and Cooke zooms for the origin story timeline, opposed to Panavision primo lenses for the Deadpool scenes which gave them more clarity. Exterior scenes in the film have a consistent overcast look, but location shooting came with "unpredictable" weather. For instance, the production had use of the Georgia Viaduct for two weeks, and "just had to keep shooting, rain or shine, because once our permit expired on the bridge, we were never going to get it back." Seng used more lighting on cloudy days and less on sunny days to keep the look consistent.
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(at around 1h 26 mins) At around 1 hour 26 minutes, one spectacular scene from the showdown, realized by Digital Domain, sees Negasonic Teenage Warhead use her explosive powers to launch Deadpool on a piece of metal up to the area where Ajax is holding the superhero's girlfriend hostage. "Tim described Negasonic Teenage Warhead to me as a fuel air bomb," says Jonathan Rothbart. "They're these bombs where they launch them and they explode but only ignite when the fuel spreads out. So you get this massive combustion moment but spread out into this huge large area. But we also needed something to show the genesis of the effect, so Digital Domain came up with something that looks like the solar flares of the sun."
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The suit was difficult for the visual effects team to replicate with CGI, which visual effects supervisor Jonathan Rothbart blamed on its fabric. He described it as mesh that allowed dirt to "get into the gutters and the cracks ... [so when] the light hits it, it still takes that orangey hue but as soon as it goes in the shadow it dropped to this more blueish of the dirt."
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Colossus's movements were re-recorded with performer T.J. Storm, as Andre Tricoteux had been unable to move athletically due to the platform shoes he had to wear on set to replicate the character's height. Greg LaSalle was used for his facial performance. DD then mapped these performances onto a digital model that was designed to be comic-accurate.
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Greg LaSalle, who provided the facial movements for Colossus, revealed that the vomiting scene was the most challenging. He stated: "Colossus can't stand the sight of blood, so he almost instantaneously vomits when he sees blood. Trying to vomit when you're acting is an incredibly physically draining thing. Unfortunately, since motion capture, like I was saying, you just do the takes, loop and loop and loop. By the time you do 10 vomit sequences, and there aren't that many in the film, but you're doing it over and over again to try and modify that. I actually was almost really vomiting on the cameras, because your whole body has to get into it to make it look real. You know, you can't pretend to vomit, it'll look like you're pretending to vomit. So, at one point director Tim Miller was like, 'Dude, you got to stop, because you're going to pass out and you're going to throw up on the cameras.' That was incredibly physically challenging."
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Tim Miller held off on working on the CGI for Colossus until after the film was edited, to avoid spending money on shots that would not be used. The Blu-ray edition features a few deleted scene extensions with Colossus, where he is indeed played by a stand-in wearing a motion-tracking suit, or replaced by a very rough CGI effect.
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For Deadpool's scarred appearance, director Tim Miller wanted him to appear "fucking horrible" to justify his anger in the film, while makeup designer Bill Corso had some leeway because in the comics "he's everything from a rotten corpse to a guy with a couple of lines on his face". Corso acknowledged the script's description of the character as disfigured but also wanted him to be "still kind of charming and iconic". He wanted to avoid comparisons to Freddy Krueger and looked to Sin City (2005) for inspiration. The final makeup required nine silicone prosthetics to cover Ryan Reynolds's head, which took several hours to apply. For the scene where the character is naked, it took 6 hours to apply the full body makeup to Reynolds. Corso describes the makeup for the rest of the film's characters as "...pretty simple. Tim wanted to keep it really grounded".
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It took Ryan Reynolds forty minutes to get into the suit early on, but he got it down to ten by the time they wrapped. They had nine suits and destroyed seven of them. "I think it's the most faithful comic book to screen adaptation of a super suit ever," he adds, which explains in part why he stole it from the set. "I just walked off set with it and basically told them to go fuck themselves. I waited ten years to do the movie, and if they want to take the suit back they can come try and take it from me."
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When 20th Century Fox refused to pay the writers of the film, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, for on set input, Ryan Reynolds paid out of his own pocket for them to be on set to look over the film. Reese stated, "We were on set every day. Interestingly, Ryan wanted us there, we were on the project for six years. It was really a core creative team of us, Ryan, and director Tim Miller. 20th Century Fox, interestingly, wouldn't pay for us to be on set. Ryan Reynolds paid out of his own money, out of his own pocket."
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Ryan Reynolds has been attached to the Deadpool character as far back as 2004. It originally came to him during production on Blade: Trinity (2004). "Say what you will about that movie, but it brought me great things. It actually was a lot of fun, I got to sort of improvise and goof around, and looking back at it I was kind of in a weird way playing Wade Wilson."
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Tim Miller and cinematographer Ken Seng wanted the film to look "grittier and less clean and glossy" than other superhero films, and decided to shoot with digital cameras but add film grain in post-production to keep texture in the images. Seng used Super Baltar lenses and Cooke zooms for the origin story timeline, opposed to Panavision primo lenses for the Deadpool scenes which gave them more clarity. Exterior scenes in the film have a consistent overcast look, but location shooting came with "unpredictable" weather. For instance, the production had use of the Georgia Viaduct for two weeks, and "just had to keep shooting, rain or shine, because once our permit expired on the bridge, we were never going to get it back." Seng used more lighting on cloudy days and less on sunny days to keep the look consistent.
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Production designer Sean Haworth also worked closely with Tim Miller, who had specific ideas for the sets. The production had to be very specific about which elements of each set were built physically to conserve the budget for visual effects. For the final scrapyard scene, garbage was built to a certain height to be extended with CGI, and a gimbal was used for a tilting section of the yard that had to interact with a lot of digital elements. That final sequence was filmed in a naval yard, and was dressed with scrap metal. Rubber casts of the metal were made for stunts.
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The suit was difficult for the visual effects team to replicate with CGI, which visual effects supervisor Jonathan Rothbart blamed on its fabric. He described it as mesh that allowed dirt to "get into the gutters and the cracks ... [so when] the light hits it, it still takes that orangey hue but as soon as it goes in the shadow it dropped to this more blueish of the dirt."
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Colossus's movements were re-recorded with performer T.J. Storm, as Andre Tricoteux had been unable to move athletically due to the platform shoes he had to wear on set to replicate the character's height. Greg LaSalle was used for his facial performance. DD then mapped these performances onto a digital model that was designed to be comic-accurate.
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The two handguns that Deadpool uses are IWI (Israel Weapon Industries) Desert Eagle Mark XIX .50 Action Express with over-barrel Picatinny-style rails. They are recognizable by their safeties, which are retained from the original production Mark XIX; the U.S.-made Magnum Research version, in contrast, now has the "teardrop"-style safety found on the original Mark I. The Desert Eagles used in the films are chambered in .50 AE, based on shots of the shell casings (with .50 AE clearly visible) and the lack of fluting on the barrels. Strangely, his Desert Eagles are not fully loaded, as he states he has "12 bullets" in the highway fight. He shoots 6 rounds from each gun before they go empty. Desert Eagle handguns in .50 AE hold 7+1 rounds. Also, at another noteworthy point, every primer of the spent casings is marked with the number of the round spent (from 12 to 1).
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(at around 1h 11 mins) At around 1 hour 11 minutes, Stan Lee revealed at Megacon that his cameo in a strip club was not actually filmed in a strip club. Lee was in a studio box, which was edited into the strip club scene. He then sarcastically stated that he was "damn mad about it".
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For his initial scarring, Rodeo FX referenced rotting fruit and maggot-eaten meat. The company added a CG penis to Ryan Reynolds in the sequence, which "you don't even notice [but] when it wasn't there it looked really weird". Rodeo also augmented the practical fire in the scene.
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(at around 12 mins) During the highway fight scene, Deadpool gets shot in the ass, to which he remarks, "Right up Main Street!" The filming location of this scene is on the Georgia Viaduct in Vancouver, Canada. Later on, as a handcuffed Deadpool is being dragged by Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead towards the X-Jet, you can see that the jet is parked just before an off-ramp from the highway. In real life, this off-ramp leads to Vancouver's Main Street.
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When 20th Century Fox refused to pay the film's writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, for their contributions on set, Ryan Reynolds paid out of his own pocket for them to review the film on set. Reese said: "We were on the film set every day. Interestingly, Ryan wanted us there; we had been on the project for six years. We were actually a core creative team consisting of Ryan and director Tim Miller. Interestingly, 20th Century Fox didn't pay us to be on set. Ryan Reynolds paid out of his own pocket."
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Daniel Cudmore, who portrayed Colossus in X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), turned down reprising the role in this film. He was replaced by Andre Tricoteux. Cudmore was unhappy with the idea of only doing motion capture work while another actor dubbed over his lines.
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In the comics, Angel Dust (Gina Carano) is a natural mutant who can augment her super-strength with a temporary rush of adrenaline. This causes lines to appear on her face and she tires or exhausts herself shortly afterwards. In the film, she is a mutant whose powers were artificially boosted, much like Deadpool's. Plus, she is far more powerful in the film and does not seem to rely on an adrenaline boost. However, in a nod to the comic version, there are moments when Angel Dust is clearly tiring in her fight with Colossus, as if she has reached the limit of her powers.
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T.J. Miller felt he was cast as Weasel because he "looks like his superhero power is spilling mustard on his shirt," and producer Simon Kinberg added that an actor was needed "who could keep up with Reynolds comedically." Miller attempted to give his character a facial tic, but director Tim Miller rejected the idea.
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Daniel Cudmore, who portrayed Colossus in X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), turned down reprising the role in this film. He was replaced with Andre Tricoteux. Cudmore was unhappy with the idea of only doing motion capture work while another actor dubbed over his lines.
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Easter Eggs & References (123)
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(at around 40 mins) At around 40 minutes, Deadpool's reference to the movie 127 Hours (2010) was cut down slightly to remove a reference to star James Franco, whom he referred to as Harry Osborn. This was done to avoid contention with Sony, who still held the rights to Spider-Man at the time.
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(at around 39 mins) When Deadpool breaks his wrists on Colossus, he says, "All the dinosaurs feared the T-Rex," which may have been a reference to the comic Savage Land where the X-Men encounter dinosaurs and Colossus defeats a T-Rex. (Or this may have simply been a reference to the shape of Deadpool's arms.)
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The song "Careless Whisper" is referenced throughout the film as being performed by Wham!. This was confusing for many audience members outside North America and Japan, because in the rest of the world the song was released as the first solo single by George Michael; even the end credits list only George Michael as performer and his fellow Wham! member Andrew Ridgeley as writer only.
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(at around 59 mins) At around 59 minutes, when Weasel and Wade are trying to come up with a nickname for Wilson, one of the names said is "Scaredevil". This is clearly a reference to another Marvel Comics character, Daredevil, who Deadpool has come into contact with in the comics. Like Deadpool's first appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Daredevil's first cinematic portrayal (Daredevil (2003)) was also heavily derided by fans of the comics, but the character had much more success in his critically acclaimed next outing (the series Daredevil (2015)).
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(at around 30 mins) At around 30 minutes, in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Deadpool doesn't wear his trademark red costume but appears as a disfigured, shirtless, bald man with his mouth sewn shut. He also possesses two retractable katanas embedded in his forearms. As a reference to this prior film, there is a scene that briefly features this version of Deadpool as an action figure.
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(at around 59 mins) At around 59 minutes into the movie, Wade and Weasel come up with the name 'Deadpool' from the Dead Pool betting in the Hellhouse/Sister Margaret's. In the comics, the Dead Pool betting takes place at the research facility between inmates where Wade and others are experimented on.
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The closing credits are a nod to Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): at the end of that movie, Bueller also comes into frame wearing bathrobes, asking why viewers are still there and ushering them to go home. At the end, Deadpool even makes the famous "tschuka-tschukaah" sound from 'Oh Yeah', a song by Yello made famous by Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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This is the third Marvel movie to reference a DC Comics franchise, the first being Spider-Man (2002) when Aunt May says "You aren't Superman you know" to Peter Parker and the second being Iron Man 3 (2013) where Happy Hogan makes a reference to the Avengers being the Super Friends.
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(at around 1h 16 mins) At around 1 hour 16 minutes, when Wade is leaving his friends to do battle with Ajax/Francis at the scrapyard, there is a statuette on a shelf or mantle behind Blind Al. It is the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award (or a duplicate) from the '60s anthology Laugh-in, where the hosts gave out the weekly award. It depicts a 'finger gun' with a bandage or wings on the index finger.
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(at around 40 mins) At around 40 minutes into the film, when Deadpool saws off his hand and blood sprays in Colossus's face, he says, "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret." This is the title of a coming of age novel by Judy Blume wherein the central theme of the story is a teenage girl getting her first period.
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(at around 45 mins) Wade makes reference to the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs. Though the WNBA celebrated its twentieth year in 2016, the Monarchs folded after the 2009 season. This and other references imply that the movie was not set in 2016, when the film was released (such as a not-so-serious reference to it being the "Year of the Dog," which last occurred in 2006). He later calls the recruiter "Jared" and the word "foot long" is mentioned. This is a reference to Jared Fogle, the former Subway restaurants spokesman who was arrested for molestation charges. This reference implies the movie is in fact set in 2015-2016 or later (the next Year of the Dog is 2018, the year Deadpool 2 (2018) is set). Wade quips about the recruiter being a pedophile in their first talk at the bar.
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(at around 1h 5 mins) At around 1 hour and 5 minutes, when Deadpool is talking about Blind Al, he describes her as his "Robin", only "black old and in love with him", a reference to Batman's sidekick. He then flips it into a joke aimed at the homoerotic undertones people often point out in the classic TV series Batman (1966).
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(at around 9 mins) At around 9 minutes, when Colossus is first shown eating cereal and watching a news report about Deadpool, he is in the kitchen where Wolverine and Bobby Drake (Iceman) were when Xavier's School was attacked by William Stryker in X2: X-Men United (2003), which also features the first live-action appearance of Colossus.
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(at around 7 mins) At around 7 minutes, while Deadpool is fighting in the car filled with thugs, his head is smashed into the radio a few times, changing the channel. During this action, for a split second, one of the channels it skips to displays the old scene transition logo from the Adam West era Batman (1966) show. A small nod to the early days of the superhero boom.
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(at around 39 mins) At around 39 minutes, the scene in which Deadpool breaks his hands and leg after attempting to punch and kick Colossus is inspired by a similar scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) where King Arthur battles the Black Knight. King Arthur cuts off the Black Knight's limbs one after the other, but the Black Knight keeps fighting back.
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(at around 7 mins) At around 7 minutes, when Deadpool gets smashed into the headrest on a car, he makes a quip about "rich Corinthian leather", which is a reference to an old Chrysler Córdoba commercial from the 1970s with Ricardo Montalbán. This commercial was frequently parodied, in part because there is no such thing as "Corinthian leather."
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(at around 40 mins) At around 40 minutes into the film, after being captured by Colossus on the bridge, Deadpool is told he is being taken to the professor, in reference to the leader of the X-Men, Charles "Professor X" Xavier. Deadpool responds, "McAvoy or Stewart?" as in James McAvoy and Sir Patrick Stewart, both of whom have portrayed Professor X in previous X-Men movies, including simultaneously in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).
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In the trailer and in the film, Wade Wilson requests, "Don't make the super suit green--or animated!" This is a reference to Ryan Reynolds' previous role as the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern (2011), whose green suit was a special effect rather than an actual costume for Reynolds to put on. Deadpool pokes even more fun at the costume in a deleted scene on the Blu-ray copy of the movie.
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(at around 15 mins) At around 15 minutes, in the scenes where he is dealing with the stalker pizza delivery guy, Wade is wearing a T-shirt with a portrait of Bea Arthur on the front. This is a reference to the fact that in the comics, Deadpool has an affection for Bea Arthur and The Golden Girls (1985). According to Ryan Reynolds on the Blu-ray commentary track, it cost $10,000 (which went to charity) to get approval to use the image.
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(at around 19 mins) At around 19 minutes, upon further inspection of the Deadpool list in Weasel's bar, with the exception of Weasel's choice of Wade Wilson and Wade Wilson's J. Boothe, the rest of the names are famous celebrities. Listed in APA format (starting with the left column, from top to bottom): Bill Cosby, Charlie Sheen, Ye, (Wade Wilson), Vladimir Putin, (J. Boothe), Ryan Reynolds, T.J. Miller, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, Kid Rock, Mike Tyson, Judd Nelson, Lil' Wayne, Shia LaBeouf, Ned Beatty, Rob Liefeld, Ozzy Osbourne, Amanda Bynes, Arnold Palmer.
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In the film, Deadpool refers to Negasonic Teenage Warhead as Sinead. This is a reference to singer Sinéad O'Connor, whose haircut is similar to that of the character. This could also be a nod to Deadpool's repeated reference to the character's brooding personality, as Sinéad O'Connor's song Sinéad O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U (1990) is considered one of the most depressing songs of all time.
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(at around 44 mins) When Wade is trying to guess Ajax's real name, one of his guesses (said in a British accent) is 'Basil Fawlty'. This is a character from British TV sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975) made famous by John Cleese. John Cleese is one of the founding members of Monty Python. There are references to Monty Python sketches throughout the movie; notably Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)'s Black Knight (when Deadpool fights Collosus) and The Four Yorkshiremen (when Wade and Vanessa try to out-do each others' tragic childhoods).
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(at around 1h 16 mins) At around 1 hour 16 minutes, when Weasel asks Blind Al if she "wants to get fucked up", it could be a reference to their characters secretly hanging out in the comic books. Wade is more private about his home in the comics than in the movie and never let Weasel visit.
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(at around 15 mins) In the scenes where he is dealing with the stalker pizza delivery guy, Wade is wearing a T-shirt with a portrait of Bea Arthur on the front. This is a reference to the fact that in the comics, Deadpool has an affection for Bea Arthur and The Golden Girls (1985). According to Ryan Reynolds on the Blu-ray commentary track, it cost $10,000 (which went to charity) to get approval to use the image.
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(at around 40 mins) After being captured by Colossus on the bridge, Deadpool is told he is being taken to the professor, in reference to the leader of the X-Men, Charles "Professor X" Xavier. Deadpool responds, "McAvoy or Stewart?" as in James McAvoy and Sir Patrick Stewart, both of whom have portrayed Professor X in previous X-Men movies, including simultaneously in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).
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(at around 30 mins) In the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Deadpool doesn't wear his trademark red costume but appears as a disfigured, shirtless, bald man with his mouth sewn shut. He also possesses two retractable katanas embedded in his forearms. As a reference to this prior film, there is a scene that briefly features this version of Deadpool as an action figure.
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Instead of conventional opening credits, the producers, main actors, writers, and director are all identified at the beginning of the movie by epithets such as "some douchebag's film," "produced by asshats," starring "God's perfect idiot" (accompanied by a shot of Ryan Reynolds's "Sexiest Man Alive" People Magazine cover) "a hot chick" (Morena Baccarin), "a British villain" (Ed Skrein), "a gratuitous cameo" (Stan Lee), and "a CGI character" (Stefan Kapicic as the voice of Colossus), written by "the real heroes here" (Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick) and directed by "an overpaid tool" (Tim Miller).
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(at around 7 mins) When Deadpool gets smashed into the headrest on a car he makes a quip about "rich Corinthian leather", which is a reference to an old Chrysler Córdoba commercial from the 1970's with Ricardo Montalban. This commercial was frequently parodied, in part because there is no such thing as "Corinthian leather."
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The closing credits are a nod to Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): at the end of that movie, Bueller also comes into frame wearing a bathrobe, asking why viewers are still there and ushering them to go home. At the end, Deadpool even makes the famous "tschuka-tschukaah" sound from 'Oh Yeah', a song by Yello made famous by Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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(at around 7 mins) While Deadpool is fighting in the car filled with thugs, his head is smashed into the radio a few times, changing the channel. During this action, for a split second, one of the channels it skips to displays the old scene transition logo from the Adam West era Batman (1966) show. A small nod to the early days of the superhero boom.
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(at around 59 mins) When Weasel and Wade are trying to come up with a nickname for Wilson, one of the names said is "Scaredevil". This is clearly a reference to another Marvel Comics character, Daredevil, who Deadpool has come into contact with in the comics. Like Deadpool's first appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Daredevil's first cinematic portrayal (Daredevil (2003)) was also heavily derided by fans of the comics, but the character had much more success in his critically acclaimed next outing (the series Daredevil (2015)).
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In the comics, Angel Dust (Gina Carano) is a natural mutant who can augment her super-strength with a temporary rush of adrenaline. This causes lines to appear on her face and she tires or exhausts herself shortly afterwards. In the film, she is a mutant whose powers were artificially boosted, much like Deadpool's. Plus, she is far more powerful in the film and does not seem to rely on an adrenaline boost. However, in a nod to the comic version there are moments when Angel Dust is clearly tiring in her fight with Colossus as if she has reached the limit of her powers.
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(at around 44 mins) When Wade is trying to guess Ajax's real name, one of his guesses (said in a British accent) is 'Basil Fawlty'. This is a character from British TV sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975) made famous by John Cleese. John Cleese is one of the founding members of Monty Python. There are references to Monty Python sketches throughout the movie; notably Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)'s Black Knight (when Deadpool fights Collosus) and The Four Yorkshiremen (when Wade and Vanessa try to out-do each others' tragic childhoods).
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(at around 1h 5 mins) When Deadpool is talking about Blind Al, he describes her as his "Robin", only "black old and in love with him", a reference to Batman's sidekick. He then flips it into a joke aimed at the homoerotic undertones people often point out in the classic TV series Batman (1966).
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(at around 45 mins) Wade makes reference to the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs. Though the WNBA celebrated its twentieth year in 2016, the Monarchs folded after the 2009 season. This and other references imply that the movie was not set in 2016, when the film was released (such as a not-so-serious reference to it being the "Year of the Dog," which last occurred in 2006). He later calls the recruiter "Jared" and the word "foot long" is mentioned. This is a reference to Jared Fogle, the former Subway restaurants spokesman who was arrested for molestation charges. This reference implies the movie is in fact set in 2015-2016 or later (the next Year of the Dog is 2018, the year Deadpool 2 (2018) is set to be released). Wade quips about the recruiter being a pedophile in their first talk at the bar.
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In the film, Deadpool refers to Negasonic Teenage Warhead as Sinead. This is a reference to singer Sinéad O'Connor, whose haircut is similar to that of the character. This could also be a nod to Deadpool's repeated reference to the character's brooding personality, as Sinéad O'Connor's song Sinéad O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U (1990) is considered one of the most depressing songs of all time.
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(at around 39 mins) When Deadpool breaks his wrists on Colossus, he says, "All the dinosaurs feared the T-Rex," which may have been a reference to the comic Savage Land where the X-Men encounter dinosaurs and Colossus defeats a T-Rex. (Or this may have simply been a reference to the shape of Deadpool's arms.)
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(at around 12 mins) During the highway fight scene, Deadpool gets shot in the ass, to which he remarks, "Right up Main Street!" The filming location of this scene is on the Georgia Viaduct in Vancouver, Canada. Later on, as a handcuffed Deadpool is being dragged by Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead towards the X-Jet, you can see that the jet is parked just before an off-ramp from the highway. In real life, this off-ramp leads to Vancouver's Main Street.
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(at around 47 mins) At around 47 minutes into the film, during a scene in the lab, Ajax suggests sewing up Wade's mouth to shut him up. Wade replies, "Oh, I wouldn't do that if I were you." This is a reference to X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), in which Wade Wilson's mouth is sewn shut, a decision that drew the ire of comic book fans everywhere, including Ryan Reynolds himself.
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(at around 43 mins) At around 43 minutes, in the comic books, Deadpool garnered his healing factor from an experiment involving a sample of Wolverine's blood. The serum Wade is injected with can be seen to have drops of blood in it, implying that those drops of blood come from Wolverine.
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(at around 1h 1 min) At around 1 hour and 1 minute, while trying out different uniforms, Deadpool wears a single eye mask that slightly resembles that of Slade Wilson (Deathstroke). This is a nod to the Deathstroke character, Slade Wilson, from whom Deadpool's creator borrowed heavily in his original vision of the character.
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(at around 30 mins) At around 30 minutes, there is an X-Men Origins Deadpool toy, and Wade can be heard saying, "My most prized possession!" before the toy is cast aside and it is revealed that he is talking about his Wham! album. This is a nod to how poorly the X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) version of Deadpool was received.
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The weapons Wade gathers as he tells Weasel that he needs "all the guns" to combat Francis/Ajax at the scrapyard, which he ultimately forgets in Dopinder's taxi, are: a 3rd generation Glock 17; a Heckler & Koch Mark 23; an 8 3/8" Smith & Wesson Model 29 (a reference to Dirty Harry and The Dead Pool (1988)); an IMI Mini Uzi (folded stock); an IMI Galil SAR (Valmet rifle); a Norinco Type 84S-2 with black polymer pistol grips and handguard; a Steyr AUG A1; and a short-barreled folding-stock Remington 870. A second short-barreled 870 with front and rear pistol grips and a top folding stock is picked up by Wade.
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Hugh Jackman can be seen twice in the movie: first on the cover of a magazine, and second when Deadpool wears Jackman's face from that magazine near the end of the film when he takes off his mask. Deadpool makes a reference to Wolverine by using a word that rhymes with "Wolverine": "Polverine".
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The X-Mansion, also known as the "Xavier School," can be seen twice. Deadpool visits to recruit two X-Men members, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead. They are the only X-Men members to be seen outside the school. Deadpool jokes about only having these two members by saying the studio didn't have enough money to show more X-Men members.
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When Ajax/Francis brings Vanessa to the top of the helicarrier prior to the end battle, she is wearing a red coat with white trim. This is Wade's jacket that he can be seen wearing at the beginning of the film. Vanessa had kept it and used it regularly even after Wade left her and she presumed him dead.
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(at around 1h 14 mins) At around 1 hour 14 minutes, at the strip club, Weasel says to Wade Wilson about Vanessa, "Go get her, Tiger," which is what Mary Jane Watson would say as an endearment to Marvel Comics superhero Peter Parker, also known as Spider-Man.
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When Deadpool, Colossus and NTW confront Ajax and Angel Dust, Ajax tells Deadpool to say his name, a callback to Wade's "activation" in the workshop. Deadpool mutters, "Imma spell it out for you." After dispatching the group of mooks, a shot from Ajax's viewpoint shows Deadpool standing next to the bodies of nine mooks, arranged to spell out "Francis". The letter "I" is dotted with a mook's severed head, and one of the corpses is mooning him. Ajax says to Vanessa, "Does he write you notes, too? He's such a romantic!"
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(at around 1h 40 mins) At around 1 hour 40 minutes, Deadpool refers to himself as "your friendly neighborhood pool guy", a direct reference to Spider-Man being called "your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man", with whom Deadpool often collaborates in the comic books.
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(at around 6 mins) At around 6 minutes, at the beginning of the movie, Deadpool narrates that he had to do some unspeakable things to get his own movie made to a person whose name rhymes with "Polverine." He then proceeds to do an Australian accent impersonation, talking about his smooth criminals Down Under. Hugh Jackman has had a major role in getting this movie made, according to Rhett Reese in an interview to Yahoo! Movies.
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(at around 1h 25 mins) At around 1 hour 25 minutes, towards the end when Deadpool is fighting the soldiers, he stops for a moment when he recognizes one of them as "Bob". Bob, agent of HYDRA, is a recurring character in Deadpool comic books, a cowardly sidekick type who is often reluctantly forced to aid Deadpool in his escapades. The HYDRA aspect of the character was removed for obvious licensing reasons.
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Hugh Jackman can be seen twice throughout the movie. First on the cover magazine and the second when Deadpool is wearing Jackman's face, from the magazine, near the end of the film when he takes off his mask. Deadpool makes a reference to Wolverine, by using a word that rhymes with "Wolverine"; "Polverine".
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The weapons Wade gathers as he tells Weasel that he needs ("all the guns") to combat, Francis/Ajax at the scrapyard which he ultimately forgets in Dopinder's taxi are: *3rd generation Glock 17 *Heckler & Koch Mark 23 - *8 3/8" Smith & Wesson Model 29 - (a reference to Dirty Harry The Dead Pool (1988) *IMI Mini Uzi (folded stock) *IMI Galil SAR (Valment rifle) *Norinco Type 84S-2 with black polymer pistol grips and handguard *Steyr Aug A1 *Short-barreled folding stock Remington 870 A second short-barreled 870 with front and rear pistol grips and a top folding stock is picked up by Wade.
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Ryan Reynolds describes Deadpool's "breaking the fourth wall" ability as a reflection of current times: "I think Deadpool's coming along at the right time, because it's speaking to that generation that has seen all these comic-book films and enjoyed them all; it's speaking to them as though the guy in that red suit is one of them. It's like watching a DVD commentary by someone who's got some pop-culture savvy and is kind of funny and a little obnoxious and is saying the things that you wouldn't say."
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The film is considered to be a loose remake of the action film Crank (2006). In that film, Jason Statham stars as Chev Chelios, a professional assassin who seeks revenge on his nemesis, who injected him with a lethal poison which will kill him when his heart rate drops, after which he becomes seemingly indestructible. In this film, Wade Wilson seeks vengeance on Ajax when he injects him with a serum that gives him mutant powers, but as a consequence leaves him disfigured, leading him to become Deadpool.
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Career & Awards (4)
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The film's domestic opening weekend gross set a new record as the largest opening weekend ever for a first-time director. Before making this film, Tim Miller had previously directed two short films, Aunt Luisa (2002) and Rockfish (2003), and worked in visual effects for various video games. The previous record holder was Chris Miller, co-director of Shrek the Third (2007), which opened with $121.6 million.
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Tim Miller's debut as a feature film director. However, his company, Blur Studios, was involved in the early days of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ahead of the production of the first Iron Man (2008) movie, Marvel Entertainment was concerned that their younger fan-base would not know who Iron Man was, and hired Blur to produce shorts demonstrating that there was a man in his suit, that he used gadgets and technology and that he was a respected friend of more familiar Marvel Comics characters.
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Life & Family (4)
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Through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, 13-year-old Connor McGrath, a terminally ill fan from Edmonton, requested to attend the special event for Deadpool (2016) in January, which turned out to be one of the two special screenings in New York and Los Angeles for the fans. He couldn't make it, due to the severity of his illness. Ryan Reynolds heard his story, traveled to Edmonton, and surprised him with a private special screening of the film. Reynolds said the boy was the first person ever to see the film. They kept in touch until Connor's passing a few months later. Reynolds paid tribute to him on his social media pages.
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