Ryan Reynolds has had a long and bumpy road with the Deadpool film franchise over the years. It took a long time to actually get the first film made, and after finding success with the first two films, Disney bought 20th Century Fox and the future of the franchise was uncertain.
During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Reynolds said after that happened, “I didn’t know if I’d ever be playing Deadpool again.”
Deadpool is just such an insane character, and bringing that kind of character over to Disney’s Marvel Studios made the actor question things.
Reynolds went on to say: “It’s not something I would’ve said necessarily publicly, but I didn’t know how a character like that would fit into that world [of the MCU].”
Reynolds privately pitched an idea to Marvel‘s Kevin Feige to make a Deadpool movie with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine shortly after the acquisition, but Reynolds said that “it was just not even possible” at the time.
Feige then chimed in to explain: “I don’t want to get into corporate acquisition legal laws or whatever. I don’t understand them, but there’s a lot of ’em.
“It took a long time between whenever [the acquisition] was announced to it all getting done, so [the characters] weren’t really in our sandbox for a very long time after that first announcement happened.”
But, after time and patience, Feige and Reynolds got together and figured it all out and we’ve got a movie coming that looks like a wild blast!
Feige added: “The notion that, all these years later, we’re in a world where [Jackman] is Wolverine, and Deadpool and all of those X-Men characters are together under the same roof, is a pretty amazing quarter-of-a-century experience.”
Marvel Studios‘ Deadpool & Wolverine will be released in theaters on July 26, 2024.