Deadpool
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Deadpool (2016)
Production
Budget
$58 000 000
Revenue
$782 612 155
Director
Scenario
Composer
Producer
Lauren Shuler Donner
Actors
Ryan Reynolds
Wade / Deadpool
Morena Baccarin
Vanessa
Ed Skrein
Ajax
T.J. Miller
Weasel
Gina Carano
Angel Dust
Leslie Uggams
Blind Al
Brianna Hildebrand
Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Stefan Kapičić
Colossus (voice)
Short description
Deadpool follows Wade Wilson, a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary. When he is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he agrees to take part in an experimental procedure in the hope of a cure. The treatment leaves him disfigured but gives him greatly accelerated healing, and he takes on the identity of Deadpool. Determined to find the person responsible for what was done to him, he sets out after the man behind the experiment, while trying to protect the woman he loves by keeping his changed appearance away from her.
The film is based on the Marvel Comics character and was directed by Tim Miller, the first feature he directed, followed later by Terminator: Dark Fate, Borderlands and Shiver. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote the screenplay, and Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg and Ryan Reynolds produced. Ryan Reynolds plays Wade alongside Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano and Leslie Uggams.
Released in 2016, the film had a budget of 58 million dollars and took 783 million dollars worldwide, a large return relative to its cost. It holds a rating of 8 out of 10 on IMDb from around 1.2 million votes and 7.6 out of 10 on TMDB from more than 33,000 votes, with a critics' rating of 7.1 out of 10 from 345 reviews. Audience scores are slightly higher than the critics' average.
What's left behind the scenes
- Rob Liefeld, the artist who created the image of Deadpool, starred as a client in a tattoo parlor. Deadpool, passing by, says: "To hell with Liefeld." The author's name is also written on a coffee mug during the fight scene in the car (the inscription Rob L. is clearly visible in the opening credits).
- During work on the script, Cannonball and Harrison Kane were removed. Kane was cut when it became clear how much it would cost to create a computer-generated image of his cybernetic arms. As for Cannonball, he was considered too "provincial."
- This is Ryan Reynolds’ fifth role in a film based on a comic book. Previously, he played Hannibal in “Blade: Trinity” (2004), Wade Wilson in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (2009), Hal Jordan in “Green Lantern” (2011) based on the comics from “DC Comics,” and Nick Walker in “Ghost Rider” (2013) based on the “Dark Horse” comics.
- The Deadpool costume had special padding to make the hero look more muscular. It had to be removed. Ryan Reynolds was already in good shape, so the costume with padding was too tight for him. Moreover, the actor looked unnaturally large in the costume.
- Stan Lee appeared in a cameo role in the film "Deadpool." The former director and chairman of the board of "Marvel Comics" played a DJ in a strip club.
- In January 2012, a three-minute video was filmed to convince studio executives to give the project a 'green light.' The video was shown to the general public on August 1, 2014. The audience’s delight knew no bounds, and the film went into production. Footage from the video was later incorporated into the final version of the film.
- Taylor Schilling, Crystal Reed, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Sarah Greene, and Jessica De Gouw were considered for the role of Vanessa.
- Deadpool ranked 182nd in Wizard magazine's "200 Greatest Comic Book Characters of All Time"; ranked 45th in Empire magazine's "50 Greatest Comic Book Characters", and in May 2011, ranked 31st in IGN's "Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time".
- Ryan Reynolds promised that Deadpool would be the last comic book hero he would play on screen, but added that he would not refuse the role of Deadpool if it were offered to him.
- In June 2010, director Robert Rodriguez was offered the opportunity to direct the Deadpool film, but he chose to shoot Spy Kids 4D (2011) instead.
- On April 1, 2015, Ryan Reynolds tweeted that the film would be rated PG-13 (parental guidance suggested, some material may be inappropriate for children under 13). Fans were outraged, although the main character’s speech frequently contains profanity, and he is by no means averse to using violence. On the same day, Reynolds admitted that he was joking and that the film would be rated R (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
- Ryan Reynolds was actively involved in writing the script.
- In the trailer, Wade Wilson says: "Just don't make my suit green or animated!" This refers to the superhero role from the "DC Comics universe" in the film "Green Lantern" (2011), starring Ryan Reynolds. On the set of that film, the main character's costume was the result of the work of a special effects team, not a sewing workshop.
- In the final scene, during the fight between Deadpool and Francis, Francis stabs Deadpool in the right temple with a knife. In the next scene, after Deadpool removes the knife from his head, his mask is intact and undamaged.
- Wade Wilson was named as such because the artist who created Deadpool based him on the character Slade Wilson and chose a similar name. Slade was the nickname of the mercenary Deathstroke from DC Comics. The screenwriter decided to 'play along' with the plagiarist and chose a name for the character that resonated with the original's alter ego.
- When filming the fight scene at the junkyard, Gina Carano was more worried about the spiders that lived there than about performing the stunts for the camera.
- The film was edited in the video editor "Adobe Premiere CC".
- Actor Ryan Reynolds and the comic book character Deadpool have many striking similarities. They both have the same height – 188 cm, hair color – brown, and eye color – brown; they are both Canadian, and both have alliterative three-part names: Ryan Rodney Reynolds and Wade Winston Wilson. Ryan began his acting career in 1991, the same year Deadpool first appeared on the pages of Marvel Comics (“The New Mutants #98”). In addition, Ryan is a fan of Deadpool and has repeatedly said that playing Deadpool is his dream. He has been trying to get a film about the talkative mercenary made since 2003, when the film was being developed by New Line Cinema with David S. Goyer as director, but the project was shut down and the rights to Deadpool were sold to 20th Century Fox due to a lack of rights to other characters. There is a reference to the attempt to film the movie in the comic “Cable & Deadpool #2” from June 2004: Deadpool said he looks like a mix of Ryan Reynolds and a Shar-Pei. In 2008, a rumor circulated that Wade Wilson appeared in the script for “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (2009) – Ryan quickly contacted 20th Century Fox to play the role, which involved only a cameo of Wade at the beginning of the film. The script for “Wolverine” was harsh with an R rating, but Hugh Jackman insisted on a PG-13 rating, as a result of which the script was heavily reworked by the screenwriters, and the role of Wade Wilson was completely changed at the end of the film.
- In the late 1990s, Deadpool became the hero of his own comic book series. He operated as a duo with an inventor and weapons supplier named Weasel. Sometimes this character 'decorates' Deadpool's weapons and armor. He is the one who invented the teleportation belt with the Deadpool emblem, as well as a bag with an unlimited amount of weapons inside.
- Colossus is 2 meters 28 centimeters tall, while Andre Tricote, who played him, is only 2 meters 10 centimeters tall. He had to wear shoes with 20-centimeter soles for filming.
- Daniel Cudmore, who played Colossus in previous films in the X-Men franchise, declined to reprise the role in Deadpool. André Tricote played Colossus instead. Tricote was Colossus on set; his movements were captured for the character (motion capture), and he also served as a reference point for the actors. However, the character's appearance was based on actor Glenn Ennis, T.J. Storm served as a model for studio motion capture, Greg LaSalle performed the character’s facial expressions, and Stefan Kapičić provided the voice.
- In the scene where the paper mask is removed from his face, the lower bracket is halfway detached. One shot later, it is fully reinserted into the hero's chin.
- This is the first film in the X-Men franchise to receive an R rating (persons under 17 are only admitted to screenings when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian).
- Filming the movie took 48 days.
- Ryan Reynolds views his character's ability to 'break the fourth wall' as something inspired by the current times. He once said: 'I think a Deadpool movie comes along at the perfect moment. It's an appeal to a generation that has already seen comic book movies and loves them. It's an appeal from a man in a red suit who is one of them. It feels like watching a modern idol say the things you don't have the guts to say yourself.'
- Deadpool was created by artist Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza and first appeared in comic book "The New Mutants" #98 (February 1991).
- Preparing for the role of Rhapsody, Brianna Hildebrand practiced Muay Thai for several months.
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