Difficulties With “Deadpool 2” Post-Credit Scene

Fans love the post-credits scene for Deadpool 2, but part of that hilariously meta gag almost didn’t come to fruition. (Warning: spoilers to follow!)

In the scene, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) sends his companions back in time using the technology of his antagonist-turned-ally, Cable (Josh Brolin). First they save two of characters who died during the movie, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) and Peter (Rob Delaney); afterwards, they go back to the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and kill that movie’s version of Deadpool (also played by Reynolds), in order to “fix the timeline.” They top it off by killing Reynolds after he accepts the script for 2011’s Green Lantern.

The Merc With a Mouth has long fought a war against the fourth wall, and this ridiculous sequence shows how the movies have embraced that. The marketing has been quick to poke fun at other superhero movies, and frequently mocks some of Reynolds’ less beloved roles as well.

Out of all of them, Deadpool from X-Men Origins: Wolverine may be the most hated (though Green Lantern is no slouch in second place). That 2009 film was supposed to segue into a Deadpool solo flick, but its version of Deadpool lacked most of what people like about the character. Most infamously, he spent his last fight of the film with his mouth sewn shut, unable to quip.

So of course Reynolds and the rest of the Deadpool 2 crew wanted to skewer it (while also taking a chance to mock the X-Men franchise’s confusing continuity). However, as Reynolds explained in the Empire Film Podcast, they had “a dick of a time” trying to get the footage, since it was done on actual film as opposed to digital.

“We were sitting there on the Fox lot, the exact piece of the movie we need had been damaged on whatever the transfer was, so we had to go to some backup which was in some vault somewhere in the middle of the country, the United States, and we ended up finally, at the last second inputting it into the movie,” he said.

He added that he was losing sleep over the possibility of having to ask Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman to perfectly reshoot the scene. “I can’t think of a worse hell for a human being to do.”

Ref: https://www.cnet.com/news/deadpool-2-post-credits-scenes-explained-meaning-what-happens-green-lantern/