DAVID LEITCH: Here we are, on the commentary,
the Blu-ray commentary.
RYAN REYNOLDS: The Deadpool 2: Escape to Pegasus Mountain
commentary.
There's the Disney logo and/or Comcast.
- We'll see. -(LAUGHTER)
- Read the news today. - It's gonna be...
Seems like it's anyone's game.
(LAUGHTER)
RHETT REESE: But what we're saying is, we 're for sale.
- Yes. - To the highest bidder.
- Yes. - We're accepting offers.
- Yeah, absolutely. - PAUL WERNICK: Or any bidders, actually.
God, I hated that. Smoking that thing.
There was a debate. Should it be a joint or a cigarette?
And we decided cigarette.
A cigarette, I think, is far more, like,
"I hate myself. I want to die."
A joint is, like, "We're celebrating.
-"Logan's finally dead." (LAUGHS) - Yes.
People would have totally misinterpreted the scene.
We still, at this point, have not shown Mangold...
Has not seen this. So it'll be interesting.
- Oh, wow, he's not seen this. - Yes, not seen this part.
- Does he get approval on that? - No.
Phew!
- Apparently. -(LAUGHTE R)
I left set that day with the Logan music box.
I stole it. Just lettin' you know.
Okay, you turn all of them but the last one.
'Cause it didn't fuckin' turn.
It didn't turn all the way.
It drove me nuts. We couldn't even just get a fake one.
- Pop-Tarts. - Yeah.
You guys are frosting guys, or no-frosting Pop-Tart guys?
I like no frosting. They're harder to find, though.
Yeah, they are harder to find.
This is going to be the worst audio commentary
-in the history... - We're off to a good start.
- So, the idea of the suicide... - I can't process words
out of the right ear.
Oh, Jesus.
We need a provocative opening,
and we were pitching around suicide ideas, and, of course, Ryan
-had to take it to the extreme level. - Yeah, right?
- If you're gonna go... -"I'm gonna blow myself up."
Okay, great.
You never want to botch this, right?
You don't wanna be calling for help on the ground, or anything.
You wanna make sure you're done.
Crocs make their comeback.
Air Supply, from one of my first movies,
Van Wilder. Featured heavily in that.
I love that song.
DEADPOOL: Fuck Wolverine.
First, he rides my coattails with the R rating.
Then the hairy motherfucker ups the ante by dying.
Voice-over is something we employed in the first movie,
in a way to kind of bookend the movie,
and we do it in this one, too.
It's a great way to get sentiment and emotion out.
Yeah.
And cheaper than shooting exposition.
(LAUGHTER)
Much cheaper.
- Here it is. - Oh, yeah.
This is not Beijing or Shanghai,
this is the top of a building in Vancouver.
Vancouver, British Columbia. My hometown.
That suit is actually shiny.
Yeah.
It's hard not to get mesmerized by the film.
- Right? I know. - We haven't seen it in a while.
Does that actually say something, on that card?
Is that something? Or is that just gibberish?
Yeah, it is a cleared name.
I'm not sure, thank God.
So, there's no lawsuit pending.
Although, you know that
that Chinese behind you right there actually says "Deadpool."
Yeah, it says "Pool of Death," I think. I could be wrong.
That stunt that Jackson did right there always made me nauseous.
'Cause he does actually jump off the building,
and then, into a net below,
saving him from another 50-story drop, or whatever it was.
Oh, boy.
Lotta options here. Yeah.
So, we have so many great alts here.
I like, "These things will kill you."
This was a joke we actually wrote
at Rhett's wedding. Ryan, myself, and my brother.
- About the... - The Sea Breeze.
-(LAUGHTE R)
Oh, yeah, the Sea Breeze. Don't make me say it.
When you're a writer, you're never not working.
- Yeah, I guess so. - You're at a wedding,
and you weren't paying attention, I guess.
- That was a fun wedding. - That was.
And those Sea Breezes are actually delicious.
Yeah.
So, Dave, take us through the action on this stuff.
Dave is just a maestro with action.
Walk us through your philosophy on action.
Honestly, you try to not cut it up too much, if you can,
and try to get some real performances on there.
We had a great stunt team.
You love in-camera stuff, which I love, too.
Yeah.
Scoutmaster Kevin?
- True story. -(LAUGHTER)
-(LAUGHING) "True story." - Yeah.
That is actually...
- That was Jackson there. - Right there.
- Doin' the pole. - The pole move.
Jackson being Ryan's primary stunt double.
Very gifted individual, Jackson Spideii.
DEADPOOL: But that's where you'd be wrong.
This idea, this motion-control shot
was more, like, try to create a comic-book feel
to start the movie and sort of set the tone.
We can have fun with the action, and we can have fun with the violence
-and not be too serious about it. - Yeah.
That's, like, heightened reality.
How long did it take to shoot that one?
This was a full day.
Setting up the choreography, blocking it with all the stunt guys,
doing a pass with the motion control,
and then doing a pass with Thayr, who played the bad guy.
It took a long time to get them to line up.
Oh, yeah.
DEADPOOL: Ugh. So gross.
A panic room? Really?
We're about to show you a shot that was inspired by
Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Harrison Ford is running down,
being chased by a tribe of angry adversaries,
trying to board a plane and, in this case,
it'll be Deadpool, trying to jump into Dopinder's cab.
Where he's holdin' on to his hat, running, you know,
-"Start the engine! Start the plane!" -"Start the plane!"
This was a fun, sort of, oner.
And this was a Ryan idea, where we were trying to do
some of these big, long, physical gags in-camera.
- Not... - Cut it up too much.
Not cut it up too much.
A la Buster Keaton.
We love the Buster Keaton.
Dave gave me a great wrapped gift
of a Buster Keaton book that I'm obsessed with.
It has been quite the run, Dopinder, and who'da thought?
Now I'm talked about in the same sentence as Jesus.
Passion of the Christ, then me.
It's a risky joke 'cause it could have gone either way.
We'd have to change it if somethin' else came along.
The good news, speaking of changing things,
Deadpool's in a mask, we've said it before,
we can put words into his mouth up until the very last moment,
so we're writing this movie up until it locks
two, three weeks before it comes out into theaters.
I want to belong to something, like you, Pool, sir.
- Dopinder... - Hmm?
You never cease to surprise me.
Love Dopinder so much.
(LAUGHS)
The emotion in Deadpool's face, right there...
I love the Weta... The mask work.
They do such a great job with the eye animations.
But it's based on the facial capture.
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, I guess that's an interesting tidbit,
is that every line I say in the movie
I also film myself without the mask, saying it,
so then the guys at Weta, in New Zealand,
which is an effects company that animates the mask,
they then map that onto the mask.
And it just really makes all the difference.
Could you talk a little bit about how you vary your performance
when you're in the mask
versus out of the mask in the makeup?
How you make it bigger, and a little more physical?
Yeah. In the mask, you're always 20% or 30%,
I'd say, bigger than you would be without the mask.
It's just pushing through it,
and that really came down to camera tests on the first movie,
just 'cause I got in the suit, I thought, "This is impossible.
"I don't know how this is ever gonna work."
Just messin' around, you feel that you can push through the mask.
If you just give it a little bit more gusto,
it works.
I was fighting a caped badass.
But then we discovered his mom is named Martha, too.
No.
Traffic?
Hmm?
ALL: Hmm?
We always liked that little...
I always loved their love story.
I sort of felt bad for her, having to kiss that...
- Rubber face? - Squishy rubber face. Yeah.
Just sweat underneath...
At the end of the day, too, just so disgusting.
How quickly were they doing your makeup by the end of this movie?
They were gettin' that sucker down to two hours.
And on the first one, what, we were three and a half?
Three and a half, yeah.
Bill Corso, an absolute genius.
He managed to make it repulsive, but not unwatchable.
It was pretty cool.
- I'll keep it forever. -(CHUCKLES)
The goal, visually, was to make it uber-romantic,
and then we knew we were gonna spend time in the afterlife, and...
You can see some of Jonathan Sela's beautiful lighting here.
Oh, stunning, yeah.
He crushed it on this film.
And then we laid the...
Laid the audio cue of A-ha, Take On Me here,
to pay off in the afterlife at the end.
Which has been playing on a loop on my iPhone for the last...
For the last 25 years?
Todd.
You gotta pump a baby in me first, cowboy.
Yes, I do.
Let's watch some porn and show that bed who's boss.
Let's do that.
(SINGING) Papa...
Can you hear me?
Ryan has a great ear for hearing
when one song sounds too much like another song,
where someone might have plagiarized somebody,
so this actually came from you noticing, right, that the Yen“ song...
I had watched Yen“ on Turner Classic Movies
a couple of weeks before,
and then I've watched Frozen 700 times with my daughter.
Which is weird 'cause Frozen is my favorite movie, and Yen“ is hers.
But I had noticed that the song,
Do You Want to Build a Snowman? and Yentl's Papa Can You Hear Me?
Sound suspiciously alike.
(LAUGHING) / know, right?
Some poor hardworking songwriter's gonna go, "What? I didn't...
"I didn't mean it." I know.
VANESSA: Besides...
I will never, ever let our child be named Todd.
But here's the thing, isn't that how it always works?
Like in Star Wars, men are destined to become their father...
and then have consensual sex with their sister?
Did you guys write this one on the day or was this...
This was, I think, Rhett and Paul pitched on the day.
Well, it's actually a little bit of a reference to the first movie
because they have a Star WarslEmpire discussion in the first movie.
And I always screw up the Star Wars movies.
- I get them all confused, so... - I don't know.
Yeah. (LAUGHS)
- The great... - But is it Empire?
Yeah.
I don't think Luke and Leia ever actually have sex.
- They did. - In none of the movies.
They did. I saw 'em. I saw it.
Off-camera. I think it was off-camera.
I saw... Luke nailed her.
I saw it.
VANESSA: What about Krystal? But with a "K"?
The nice thing about being on set every day is that,
you know, the movie and the script is kind of a living, breathing organism.
It changes, the four of us sit around and kick around ideas
and lines, and we try all of them.
It's so fun though. It's such a fun way to work.
- It really is. - I love it.
Oh, boy. Dave made me do all this stuff.
- Yeah. There was no... -(LAUGHS)
There was no getting out of it. You're like,
"We could probably have Jackson do it."
I'm like, "No. People want to see..."
That slide down the counter is pretty impressive.
It's so badass.
He's pretending like, "I don't do that stuff," and like...
- Getting old. - He's a total athlete. Come on.
Look at that.
Well, when you see Jackson do anything,
you just realize that you physically
pale in comparison in every way, shape, and form.
I've always wanted to slide across a counter.
Right?
- Was it fun? - Yeah, takes one and two were fun.
Takes nine and ten, no. Not so much.
Spoiler alert, he misses.
I always loved that shot with the knife block flying in the background.
Oh, I do, too.
Yeah, it's cool.
This was something I threw at Sela the last minute.
We didn't design the set to be shot with the Phantom,
so he, like, two days before, I was like,
"We need to mirror the slow-mo in the end
"to here at the beginning, so the motifs really match."
Oh, that's a great catch.
And it became like cutting out holes in that roof,
putting a different lighting rig in last-minute
'cause you have to pump so much light in there.
With a Phantom camera, you need a lot more light, right?
- It's a super-slow motion. - Yeah.
A huge, huge debate for years, for three years
since we started developing this script in June of 2015,
about what to do with Vanessa. Whether...
Deadpool works when you take everything away from him.
Exactly. He's got to be the underdog somehow.
So, it was really, we debated forever as to,
-is it too dark to start the movie off? - Yeah.
We had versions where they broke up and she left him
-instead of dying. - Mmm-hmm.
But ultimately I think this is
the only version that really works. I think
by taking everything away from him at that moment,
it drives the character for the rest of the movie.
Yeah, and he's the merc with the mouth.
It's a lot, and you need to position him in a way that
the audience can sympathize with him,
and that's hard to do without taking, like you said, everything away from him.
So, we were sort of left with this option,
and we're so glad we did it 'cause it drives the whole film.
- This is really fucking dark, you know. - Yeah.
And it's something that we have to juggle and be very sensitive about,
is the kind of the waves of tone that these movies take.
It's dramatic and funny and heartfelt,
and so it's a delicate dance.
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING)
Do you guys wanna talk a little bit about this song, Dave,
-and where you found this song? - Yeah.
You know, when I cut the movie together,
we were trying to find some sort of space
from the time Vanessa dies to get to the bar scene.
And so, it became like...
I guess Simon said it best.
This sort of interlude became sort of her funeral.
And we were auditioning songs,
and Columbia had a song that they felt could be a hit,
and it was a ballad, and I just laid it against the imagery, and I'm like,
"Holy shit. It's thematic to the idea of
"a lot of the characters in the movie."
Losing everything,
and hopefully something beautiful can come out of it.
But, again, talking about tone,
we had to balance the tone with this sort of melodrama, like,
how can we pay homage to the fake credits
that you guys did so well in the first movie
and give us a little bit of a juxtaposition to this drama?
Yeah.
The fake credits in the first movie were an accident because
the company that was designing them just sent out like generic "Hero"
and, like, "Bad guy" and all this stuff, so it was really just...
We were like, "That's what it is.
"Let's just do that and just make it more insulting."
I love this. Who did this?
- This is Method. - I love that.
- So that actually replaces the... - The gun.
The gun. Yeah. And it works great.
Yeah. Everything's great, yeah.
Looks great.
And Céline hasn't done a song for a movie for a little while.
I don't think so. Just Beauty and the Beast.
And it just feels like kind of a perfect ironic match.
- Right? - Yeah.
And we were always talking about who could sing it,
and I was more leaning into someone
like Adele or something like that, and then it was Ryan who's like,
"No, who's really in the DNA of Deadpool?"
And Céline rose right to the top.
Canadian.
And she sings the ever-loving shit out of that song.
Yes.
- She just crushed it. - She's the best.
Go home. You've been here for three days, okay?
I always wait for the punchline.
- There's a joke... - There's a joke there
that the studio made us take out.
I don't think that joke will ever see the light of day, I'm afraid.
I was so heartbroken when they made us take it out.
It's probably one of the only things they really made us do.
I would say we did have...
There's a lot of trust in you guys at the studio
and there's... We did have a long leash. For sure.
- Yeah. - Mmm-hmm.
At least we still have Bowie.
Yeah. We still have Bowie.
I'm sorry.
Shot after shot, it's not gonna change the fact that I think you're...
Are you pissing? Are you urinating right now?
You're making the face that you make when you urinate.
No, I think the studio, they've been great partners
in letting us do 98.6% of what we want.
And that's key in a movie like this
'cause it's really an iconoclastic, irreverent film.
98.6, is that your...
That's my body temperature right now, right?
Hello, and my favorite boy band.
(LAUGHTER)
This comes from an actual self-help book I read years ago.
"FINE: fucked-up, insecure, needy, and emotional."
And he couldn't remember the line.
- It was amazing. - So funny.
He couldn't remember the line, but it actually plays great that way.
Seems like it's kind of crossed up in his head and...
And then you give him that.
I felt so bad for him on the day
'cause he felt so terrible that he couldn't get it right,
but it was so much better that he couldn't get the line out.
- It was a weird funny moment. - It was a mouthful for sure.
It came just perfect. It was never supposed to be...
Well, it was a fourth-wall break,
but not like where you're gonna give him the line.
You actually had to give him his lines on camera.
I wonder if people ever catch this little Easter egg.
This was Ryan's little gem there.
The cure for blindness
from the first movie.
Cocaine and right next to the cure for blindness.
I wonder if eagle-eyed people will catch it.
They'll catch it on second viewing.
I think it's gonna be...
There are so many little Easter eggs in this movie.
Literally, almost every frame has an Easter egg.
This old Jack Benny piece too is something that I've loved
since I was maybe 19,
when a friend of mine introduced me to a Jack Benny box set.
It was perfect for Blind Al.
The refrigerator? I'm in so much pain.
We built this set, actually. We didn't build it, but...
(LAUGHTER)
- With my bare hands. - Could you imagine?
The first movie, this was an actual standing, existing building
-that got knocked down since. - Yeah.
In Vancouver. Beautiful building.
So we had to reconstruct it on stage.
Do you wanna talk about our production designer just a beat
because he's awesome.
Yeah, David Scheunemann, who did Atomic Blonde with me, came on board,
and I tell you, with this size budget, he crushed it.
We built the prison, the crazy and amazing practical location.
I think he sort of plussed certain things from the first movie.
Gave us a bit more breathing room in certain sets and...
And he was great.
The prison he built, I suggested that Canada should just start using it.
Right? It's cool. I would wanna be locked up there. It's awesome.
Wade'?
- I love Leslie Uggams. - You probably haven't heard that.
- I reprised Ashes. - That's great.
- I love this. - Yes.
I love the theme.
- That's our theme. - Yes.
And I remember, Paul's a big NBA fan,
he suggested the LeBron James chalk move here.
This was at the end of a very long day.
Yeah.
What about the LeBron clap?
You can't really live until you've died a little.
Let's test that theory, shall we?
And that...
That cigarette hit, it hit the lens.
That flicked up in a beautiful way.
- That was not an effect. - Lucky.
- That was dumb luck. - And there was originally here,
much contested, we've had it in and out of the movie a lot, a suicide montage
where Deadpool ends up killing himself a few times.
- Yeah. - Which was in the first
script of the first movie,
didn't make it in, and then made it into the script of the second movie.
We shot it, but then ultimately decided the movie didn't need it.
It'll probably be in, what, in the extras, right?
Oh, yeah.
- Or the extended version. Yup. - Version.
We spent two full days underwater
for just these little shots that we got.
And Ryan can hold his breath for, like, nine minutes.
Well, the original scene was gonna be all played underwater
and, again, like in my spirit of trying to do things practically,
I'm like, "Fuck it. Let's put the set underwater."
Let's build an entire apartment underwater.
And so we did, and then we put the actors in the water
and gave them chemical conjunctivitis.
Temporary blindness. It was just horrible.
Oh, my God.
- The tank... - It was almost blind Ryan
and blind Morena.
I drove home at the end of that day, and I should've been arrested
for driving home. I could see an inch in front of me.
The tank was big enough for a killer whale.
- I mean, it was massive. - It was huge.
And you really would go underwater
for a good minute and a half at a time.
You have huge lungs.
My grandmother was in the Olympics for that very event.
Guess I got some sort of weird genetic...
- Gene. -...quirk from her.
Yeah.
- The X-Mansion... - Also my third nipple's from her.
(LAUGHTER)
You used to feed at it.
No, that's a terrible... Her third nipple? That's a terrible joke.
Are you talking about my grandmother's nipples?
This has taken a turn.
Get your fucking head out of my grandma's pants, all right?
She's gone. She's not coming back.
NEGASONIC TEENAGE WARHEADI Wade, Yukio.
Yukio, Wade.
What in the fuck knuckles is this?
She's my girlfriend...
This is the original X-Mansion from the second?
- X-Men 2, I think. - X-Men 2, yeah.
In Victoria, British Columbia. Was our first day of shooting, right?
Yup, and so we were gonna only
shoot the exterior, and then when I went inside,
I'm like, "Oh, we gotta at least grab the hallway," and then it became like...
- Free for all. - We grabbed five scenes,
and you looked at me like, "Are we shooting all this today?"
- I'm like, "Yeah." -"How is this possible?
"I better start memorizing stuff."
Talk us through the look of Colossus,
how it's changed from the first to the second, Dave.
I mean, I wanted to be super respectful to the original.
And his head, his face is all the same,
based the same scale.
But I just wanted to make him a little leaner
and a little bit more buff, in the spirit of a lot of
the drawings, the comics.
Yup, and it's awesome. Love it.
- He's been training. - He's been working out.
He's been working out.
He knows what ketosis is.
Yeah, he's just in full zero-carb mode.
-(LAUGHS) Zero-carb mode. - Yeah.
Another Easter egg there on Ryan's T-shirt.
Oh, yeah, that's... Those are Taylor Swift's cats.
(ALL LAUGHING)
True story.
Now they shot that on the set of Dark Phoenix, right?
Yeah. Simon Kinberg shot that piece there
where you see the X-Men actually having a meeting behind Deadpool.
And then they sent us the footage, and we dropped it in.
We made that T-shirt
just 'cause I thought it was funny, and then found out from Fox Legal
that we needed actual written consent from Taylor Swift to use it.
She graciously and kindly gave it to us.
Wouldn't it be cool if she said no, and then what would we have done?
It would have been awesome.
We would have been having to digitally remove it.
(LAUGHTER)
But all the little details again, the entire...
You pick the socks with the balls on them, right?
I mean, to the very last detail Ryan is, you know.
I sort of love that Wade is possibly the worst dresser on Earth.
I love it too.
You know, the suit looks like it stinks
and is sewn together a million times.
We were gonna start a family.
We were, uh... (SNIFFLES)
(CLEARS THROAT)
We were gonna be a family.
Bill Corso, the makeup.
It's amazing, yeah, Bill is.
He literally...
There are so many departments that work on these movies,
and you think about if you took out just one of them,
the entire film would collapse.
And Bill Corso, not the least of which, he's just so helpful.
I mean, everything he does.
On every character, he designs them all.
It's just spectacular.
Again, you tapping into this emotion here, first day of shooting.
Karl Marx on the wall behind.
Oh, yeah. (LAUGHS)
I can't even grab a Russian ass unless Karl Marx is on the wall.
Boom, introduction to the man.
Thanos.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
As we're recording this... Avengers movie.
- Avengers is opening today. - Yeah.
So, we're about, what, three weeks until Deadpool today?
Yeah, today.
Recording this three weeks away.
Exactly three weeks before the movie comes out.
- We have no idea. - Yeah.
- What's happening. - How it will all work out.
I love that shot.
We find out later, it's his family.
That teddy bear right there was actually Dave's idea.
We originally had it as a bloody T-shirt.
And, boy, were you right.
So right. When you first pitched it,
it was a little bit of a head-scratcher 'cause we just were like, "Really?"
And then, as we started to think about it, and it's a brilliant idea.
Such a perfect totem, you know,
for him to carry around the whole movie.
This incredibly tough, sort of
morally flexible guy, with one agenda and one agenda alone,
who's walking around with a teddy bear that's half-burned, covered in blood.
I mean, what represents innocence more than
a certain image, right?
Phew. This thing...
- That's not how Cerebro works. - That's not how Cerebro works.
Yes. Yes, it is.
We took out, "bitching"? I guess we did, right?
Yeah.
- No, I want you to join. - No, you want me to join.
I'm sorry, what?
You are ready.
Always appealed to us, the idea of him misusing Cerebro essentially,
not knowing what it's actually for.
That was an actual accident on the day.
I didn't mean to do that at all.
Just snapped.
It was funny, we actually...
- That's from the archive of stuff. - We only found it last second.
They found it last second, so you actually broke
a historical X-Men prop.
- Oh, great. Great. -(ALL LAUGH)
Get a strongly written letter from Patrick Stewart.
Ryan, tell us how you kind of didn't discover Julian, but
he kind of ended up on your radar.
Taika Waititi discovered Julian.
Yes.
I'm a friend of Taika's, and I love his work,
and I watched his movie The Hunt for the Wilderpeople,
and Julian is the star of that movie.
He's just... I mean, one of the most exceptional performances I've ever seen,
so Dave and I met Julian in Los Angeles.
He was the only person that ever read for that role.
That was it. You know, we just knew in seconds.
Such an underrated movie, Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
- Ugh. Great film. - So good.
Such a great film.
Respect. At ease, Officer.
What are you doing?
My job!
You're the one who said I was ready, and I frankly disagreed with you.
But here we are, trying to overcome our differences.
Like Beyoncé says, "Please...
-"Please, stop cheating on me." - OFFICER: Hey!
This is the fifth incident.
This kid needs to be in the Ice Box, not here.
Russell belongs in our care.
Not in prison. I assure you...
-we have everything under control. - RUSSELL: Stay back! I'll burn you!
Not getting a real "under control..."
Talk about the delicate balance of pop culture references, Ryan.
Kind of how we ride that line.
Yeah, you want them sprinkled throughout the movie.
You don't wanna overdo it though either,
and you try to wanna find stuff that's not,
you know, as you guys know,
that's not just of the moment and out the next second.
So, you know, when we pick 'em, we pick...
Sometimes they're just off the cuff, and we just fucking roll with it,
but I don't know. I love that Deadpool's
so invested in pop culture
and drags it into every scene he can.
Yeah.
But the one we couldn't get over the plate,
that Rhett Reese still bemoans...
- I wanted to do a Davis Love III. - Davis Love Ill, I know.
You got it into some of the promo stuff.
- Yeah, yeah. - Marketing, yeah.
Trying to get it in somewhere.
It's a big demo.
The Davis Love III fans out there.
When you hear my laugh in a second,
I sound like the Crypt Keeper
because we'd spent a week and a half shooting on a burning set
and I had bronchitis.
- You stole that from Robocop! - That's from Robocop!
The first bonding moment between these two guys.
Right here.
That's a dying man's laugh right there.
This smoke, when you're standing in it for two straight weeks,
-it gets a little toxic. - Vicious!
That fucking does it!
Put your hands behind your knees and get down on your head! Now!
So where did you guys come up with this idea
that he always screws up the order of things?
- Was that always there? -(ALL LAUGH)
That's just a Ryan-ism, I think.
He loves transposing words.
- We all like doing it. - And Deadpool never gets anything
exactly right, right?
It's always a little left-of-center of what it should be.
Yes.
We originally pictured you in an actual yellow wet suit looking...
You guys had me in shorts.
Yeah, yeah, it was like cut off midway down the thigh.
Like a bicycle cop.
Ryan was like, "Fuck that. I'm not wearing that."
- What about a half-shirt? - Yeah.
Well, but it didn't allow you to wear the mask, and that was the thing.
You would have had to have been in the makeup for two and a half weeks.
Also getting the makeup on the legs and all,
-it just would have taken forever. - Yeah, taken forever.
And I think people really... When Deadpool's in action scenes,
you know, people like to see the mask.
- They like to see the suit. - The full suit, yeah.
That was effervescent.
(SIGHS) Stay in school, kid.
Or don't. I didn't.
- And I'm an X-Man. -(THUDS)
Trainee.
I'm a huge fan of the trainee runner.
I laughed when I read it in the script.
I love it. Love it, love it.
- Superhero landing? - Yeah.
Not practical.
Yeah, another balance we had was
the wanting to reference the first movie,
but not over-reference it. So there are
a few callbacks to the first movie, like the superhero landing.
And you can see them throughout, but we didn't wanna have that joke
or that kind of joke overstay its welcome.
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
I could get used to this X-Man shit.
- NEGASONIC TEENAGE WARHEAD: Trainee! - Trainee!
This was at Riverview. The...
Former insane asylum. We shot there, yeah.
In Vancouver, which we shot also for the first movie.
What was it on the first movie? It was the...
- A few things, I think. - The lab, right?
You shot the lab.
When you got wheeled into the lab.
When he got wheeled into the workshop. Yeah.
It's a creepy place.
Almost all the bad guys in the movie,
sort of like ND bad guys that are in the movie... are
A good bunch of them are from the first movie that we...
- Oh, really? Oh, wow. - Yeah, that we killed too.
- We gotta keep our eyes open for that. - I sort of like that though.
It's a make-believe world, and I like that they resurrect it again.
Let's get you inside, young man.
I know, there's a lot more sort of backstory.
Not a lot of backstory, on the orphanage and what they do there
and how they treat mutants, and sort of this Headmaster's obsession
with, like, converting them to normal kids.
We started to realize maybe that story
is better revealed through Deadpool's eyes.
Yeah, it's always funny how much of it you shape in the edit,
you know, because that was...
For a long time that was in. That was all in the movie, and then...
And I think, you know,
it will be in the deleted scenes. You can look at it.
- It's in the extended cut, but... - Yeah.
Eddie has some great performances.
And I'll tell you, he's a true chameleon,
like if you watch performance
to performance from him, you can't even tell it's the same guy.
In fact, I went to Atomic Blonde the night before one of these days,
and I talked to him for about half an hour.
He said, "Yeah, well, when we were working on Atomic Blonde..."
He's like a major role in that movie. I had no idea it was the same guy.
- Well, he's not bald. - No.
- Just did this for the role.
- He went for it. - Yeah.
Can we go back to the ejaculate in the soap dispenser joke?
- Oh, yeah. - Yes.
- Wow, yeah. (LAUGHS) - Came and went with that.
Well, that's actually a callback from the kitchen scene,
which is cut out of the movie, which will be in the extras as well
or the extended cut, but...
Yeah, Deadpool is always up to no good.
We kind of discovered that late in the script process,
and we were all sitting around, Rhett, Ryan, and myself,
at a hotel in Los Angeles
with our computers opened,
punching up the script.
I think it might have been your bit, Ryan.
- I don't know, but it was... - We got laughing.
Yeah, we haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
- Yeah. - When I read it in the script...
Oh, my God! It's also so vile.
- It's so vile. -(ALL LAUGHING)
The idea is you're laughing because you're like,
they'll never let us do this. This will never see the light of day,
so somehow it stayed in the movie though.
So this prison is highly functional.
You can walk on any of those catwalks,
you can be in any of those cells.
The production design in here is crazy.
It's not really phony. It's real.
Yeah.
- That's our friend Black Tom. - Yeah.
- Jack Kesy. - Yeah.
- Great actor. - Great actor.
Please, after you.
Another disgusting mutant off the streets.
- Black Tim. - Black Tom.
- Black Evan. -(LAUGHTER)
"All I remember is he was African-American."
In an original version, Black Tom
played a much bigger part in Act 3 of the movie.
But with these sequels, you do run the risk of overstuffing them
with, you know, just too much.
Too many new characters, too many setups for future movies.
And I think finally we just decided to,
you know, keep our cards a little closer
to the vest and not get over expansive.
And I was sad about that because I love Black Tom
and I love that character.
Part of it was budget, too, it just got so expensive to use,
-'cause he has major powers. - True.
And we ended up cutting it out,
but Jack Kesy stayed on to do this role,
which is not very big, and I always
have such immense respect for him for doing that.
Because it was, you know, he could have easily just said,
"You know what? No, I'm not gonna do it."
Right.
All right, Rhett Reese, give us the story here.
Well, this is the toilet paper manifesto, which...
Actually, there's a longer version of this,
but when it came time to get the guy,
you had been sitting down, what? At a charity event with Matt Damon?
- Is that correct? - I was at a dinner.
We have mutual friends. We were all at a dinner.
I pitched him this, Rhett's toilet paper manifesto,
and he thought it was so funny, and I said,
"Would you mind playing that role?"
And he said, "Sure." It was that easy. It was just, "Sure."
How many people have seen this movie now, Dave?
Seven hundred or something like that at this moment?
- And no one's recognized him. - No one's recognized him.
Again, Bill Corso, that's four and a half hours
in Bill Corso's chair,
leave no trace of Matt Damon whatsoever.
I don't know why we would wanna cover up Matt Damon.
It would take you out of the movie though if you were like, "Hey..."
And the reason why it's called Rhett Reese's toilet paper manifesto
is because Rhett Reese is a baby wipes guy,
and he's converted many of us along the way.
Yes, he's single-handedly raised the stock...
I got converted many years ago.
...of Huggies Natural Care Wet Wipes.
If you look in his backpack right now, I bet you can pull out some.
All right.
-(ALL LAUGHING) - Some wet wipes.
And the undercarriage is taken care of.
Yeah, exactly.
He does have a point though.
Fuck superheroes. (COUGHS)
Fuck everyone.
The first thing I wanna do when I get out of here...
burn the headmaster alive...
and then take a selfie with his smoldering corpse.
- He's so good. - Yeah, Julian is great.
It's such a nice family too, their entire family.
There's a line we cut out of there, which I miss, which was that
I asked the kid, you know, "What did the guy do to you?
"You know, did he taste the rainbow?"
And then I say, I'd whisper it, "But Skittles will sue us."
(ALL LAUGHING)
It didn't make the cut.
I liked it.
Well, it's in the extended cut as of now.
- Oh, great. - I have it for you guys to look at.
We should all look at it together.
Mad scientist Dave's been in a laboratory creating this extended cut,
and we're very excited.
I don't know anyone on Earth
that can multitask the way Dave Leitch can.
Because he did every...
He's in the middle of, like, crazy editing, color timing, test screenings,
and then shooting a Céline Dion music video
with like the scope and scale of like anything you'd see from Titanic.
Like a Cirque du Soleil guy,
you know, spinning plates on sticks, and he's keeping nine plates spinning.
- Utterly crazy. - I have a great producer
that I work with, Kelly, my wife, who produced for us here.
- And she keeps it all in order. - She's the best.
- She is so great. - Yeah, we love her.
We know she's the secret weapon.
She is by far the secret weapon.
Prison wallet, if you know what I'm saying.
Prison wallet? (COUGHS)
"Prison wallet."
Rhett, Paul, you guys wrote that.
That was probably one of my biggest laughs.
You know what? I'm not sure we did, did we? It doesn't matter.
I thought maybe that might have been yours,
-but... - I don't think so.
- We wrote this movie... - I love it though.
...combined, the three of us, which is kind of new for us
in terms of like we're sending these pages back and forth,
and we just had a blast. Ryan is a phenomenal writer.
One of the very best in Hollywood. Little known fact.
Very, very inexperienced.
But I gotta say that was so much fun doing that with you guys.
I do love that we never know whose jokes are what though.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's sort of hard to remember after all this time.
Josh Brolin has let his body go.
- He's just let himself go. - Yeah.
He said, "Fuck it, Dave, just put me on camera like this.
All CG!
-(LAUGHS) -"/ don't care."
That guy 90'! Tipped-
He had 11 weeks to do that, and he just hit it hard.
It was really after the first phone call
when we said we're doing this,
and then two days later he was on Instagram.
In a Gold's Gym just crushing it.
Curling.
Uh, no.
- Arms day. - Yeah.
Biceps day.
What? Why are you winking at me?
(COUGHS)
- I got your back. - Oh, my God.
At one point... Those are power dampeners around their necks.
They're all mutants.
At one point, I think, Dave, you had the idea of
the power dampers going in and out as they're fighting
and the powers coming in and out.
We didn't do it because of budget, but, man...
Such a cool idea.
- Such an amazing, amazing... - Yeah, right.
The powers going on. Like you'd see all these powers...
And then all of a sudden disappear.
Yeah, like you're gonna see 25 mutants in the background
with all these different, I mean...
- It would have been awesome. - Yes, but...
Such a great idea.
Unfortunately, financial realities.
- Yes. - You know, we operate within
a much smaller sandbox than most,
than all superhero movies in terms of budget.
And so we have to be as creative as we can.
- But that's the best part. - It is.
Necessity is the mother of... What's the expression?
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I don't actually...
That looping wasn't... It sort of worked.
I mean, it's never as great as production, but...
- Zip it. We're not friends. -(INMATES CHEERING)
You're about to get dick-slapped.
(LAUGHING) I love that.
- Oh, God. - Julian has not seen Deadpool 1.
- Did you know that? - He was too young.
Too yOUHQ-
So he filmed this movie having no history of the first one.
Interesting thing though about Julian is that he's an athlete.
And I know that your first impression is, "That kid isn't an athlete."
He's an athlete though. He's so good with physical comedy and action.
I was just blown away by him. He could do anything.
We're not partners or friends.
This doesn't end with us riding into the sunset.
It ends with me dying of cancer...
and you winning the Ice Box award for softest mouth.
(WADE COUGHS)
There's only one person in this world that I care about, and she's gone.
You wanna survive?
In moments like this where you guys are connecting
was driving me to think that
the third act should always be about you guys.
What's cool about Deadpom is that the stakes are personal,
and they're not, you know, we don't need this third act spectacle.
- The end of the world stuff. - End of the world stuff, so...
It became sort of this, sort of analogy of like a teenager
-and a parent. - Yeah.
You're just trying to convince him to do the right thing.
And I liked that.
I always liked that the stakes for Deadpool
are always sort of short-sighted or small.
You know, he doesn't represent,
you know, the woke male, modern male. He's sort of,
you know, he's just a dysfunctional fool
who's trying to be a bit of a better person.
And I've always liked that about him.
Yeah, I think people really relate to Deadpool
for his flaws and his inadequacies.
He's an underdog, and he's been dealt
a crappy hand, and I think people can relate to that.
Josh brings such a great physicality.
Just the way he throws that grenade, I've always loved that.
There's a swagger there that...
When we started to design his look, it was like,
he's like an old-school guy from the future.
Like a guy from the past in the future.
But a throwback.
Like, you know, there's a Clint Eastwood sort of
Western sensibility to...
- Totally. - Yeah.
The goal here was, you know, to set up Cable as the villain
of the movie.
A bit of a mislead that we wanted to kind of take through the third act,
and then...
Most movies, you know, you set up the villain early
and you track him and you wanna kind of see his downfall at the end.
And this movie doesn't have a traditional villain
because the villain of the movie is really Firefist from the future.
- Right. - And I think it works.
- Yeah. - I hope it works.
I like that it was not conventional that way.
- Yeah. - I mean, that was another...
It doesn't have a villain, but it has a lot of adversaries,
you know, like the Headmaster is an adversary.
Juggernaut's an adversary.
Firefist himself is. Cable is.
So there's a lot of antagonism. It's just not one antagonist.
...a grumpy old fucker with a Winter Soldier arm?
Get away from me, kid!
(PRISONER GROANS)
(ALL GRUNTING)
Listen to me! Go!
And I don't know, this action,
this was probably like six days of stuff.
- Mmm-hmm. - Yeah.
Alex, your stunt double from the first movie.
- Yeah. - He actually doubled Cable on this one.
And did it beautifully. Alex is...
Yeah, did an incredible job.
Oh, he's the greatest.
The laws of gravity do not apply to Alex.
No. No.
Cable's gun is almost a character in itself.
It's just really cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, his ability to call it back.
There's so many things
with Cable's powers that we could exploit,
-but we kind of had to rein it in. - Yeah.
But we can give nods to the fact that he has that
sort of telepathic power...
And I think that's really all attributable to you, Dave.
I mean, Cable in the script did not have that shield,
he did not have that ability to look at the prison schematic through his arm.
He didn't have a gun that flew back to him
when it got separated from him. That was all your invention, which,
it just amped his character so much.
Do you guys have lower-back pain?
(ALL LAUGH)
- I have lower-back pain. - I do now.
Yeah.
That always gets a... (GASPS) from the audience.
It's really revolting.
Especially if you've ever injured your back,
you just sort of go, "Oh, God." The legs. It's just terrible.
- Oh, my God. - It's a big hit.
Yeah. Yeah.
This fall. I always loved that fall. I don't know why.
Hello, superpowers.
That went back and forth from, "Hello, superpowers," to...
(SPEAKS SPANISH)
- I'm still a fan of... - Of the biblioteca?
I slightly prefer, "Hello, superpowers."
- It's very clear. - It's a little more clear, yeah.
Who are you?
I'm Batman.
How many DC references do we make?
- Five? Six? I mean, it's a lot. - A lot of DC references.
- Sometimes I feel guilty. - The Martha, this one.
Coming up is, "You're so dark."
- So dark. - From the DC universe, yeah.
I feel like Wade is kind of a fan though.
- For sure. - Doesn't seem to like come across
-as he's taking the piss out of them. - No.
- Yeah. - He loves Batman.
He loves the darkness.
Yeah.
Don't feel bad. Even I can't kill me.
Talk!
What kind of spineless shit stick tries to kill a 14-year-old boy?
So, now this is a set. This actually was on stage,
-so not in the same location. - Yeah.
And I just love to make the actors as uncomfortable as possible.
-(LAUGHS) Yeah, yeah. -"Okay, now we'll have rain.
"We're gonna have bright lights shining in your face."
Every time you see an actor uncomfortable for five seconds,
that means they were uncomfortable for five hours.
Yeah, exactly.
I like how I conveniently stayed out of the water there.
Yeah, exactly. Just stepped right...
Watching Josh get hit with the shower.
"Dave, I definitely go around the shower."
We didn't want to reveal too much about Cable early on.
- We wanted him to be mysterious. - Yeah.
Because we did want to paint him as the villain.
I mean, what the movie sets up eventually
is that Deadpool and Cable are kind of in the same boat.
They both lost someone they love, and...
So, they're on parallel paths here.
But we didn't want to reveal that too early.
That was very intentional that you don't learn about the family till the end.
- Looks pretty good. - Yeah, looks nasty.
- Sounds nasty, too. - Very nasty.
I think the last time you saw it, the effects weren't done,
-so... - Yeah, it looks great.
Dubstep's for pussies.
You're so dark!
Are you sure you're not from the DC universe?
I love dubstep!
"I love dubstep" was a suggestion
from one of our grips, wasn't it?
- I think. - He yelled out, "I love dubstep,"
right as we were walking away to finish the scene.
- We were like, "No." -"Wait a minute."
-"One more time." -"I'm saying it."
But I think the dubstep alt at the front came from you guys.
That whole day evolved into...
The "Dubstep is for pussies..."
That was not in the script, was it?
No.
Sometimes these jokes will evolve.
Like, the whole idea of people saying to each other, "You're doing great."
Like, someone just said it once,
and then all of a sudden, there's a second time and a third,
-like, "You're doing great." - You're doing great.
That goes with me everywhere.
Like the memory of your fucking fanny pack!
And the fanny pack thing, again, every time I see it, I laugh, I chuckle.
And there was a moment we were gonna out it out,
and I'm like, "Guys, I just spent, like, 12 weeks
"with Kurt and Bart designing a fanny pack."
Fanny pack, I know.
(LAUGHING) "We're not cutting the fanny pack!"
I was worried because all the cool kids
at Coachella are wearing them now...
Yeah, it's back in vogue.
At one point in the script, we had that token...
You smuggled the token into prison
in the old prison wallet, if you remember.
- Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah.
The old prison wallet, yeah.
And you went up into the mountains of British Columbia
for this big fall here, right?
You were actually up in the mountains for that.
It's a combination of visual effects and practical.
But we did roll down the hill with the guys.
It was the last official day of shooting, right?
Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Watch this.
(ALL GROAN)
WADE". ...meet bottom.
It's intense.
I remember when Josh came out of the screening,
he saw it a couple weeks ago, he's like, "It's really dark."
(LAUGHS) "It's really dark."
I'm like, "It is."
That's big, coming from Thanos.
The thing I like about Dead pool and when I came on,
that you guys had done so well in the first one,
is that, like, it's really emotional.
And the story, you need a heart.
It needs to be emotional. You need to be hooked in.
It's not just jokes.
No, you gotta start with something that's emotional.
The jokes are kind of easy. You want to, you know, have them come from somewhere.
Even the little sound design here,
the tick-tick-tick of the toaster,
this was always Ryan's vision when he pitched us this idea of this scene,
when they go back into the afterlife,
-was the tick-tick-tick, and the "ding." -"Ding."
And that brings him out. Like, just those little, small details.
Oh, you didn't avoid the discomfort that day.
I haven't seen that yet, the head wound.
Jesus. Oh, nasty.
- It's awesome. - Oh, God.
That's a bad haircut right there.
He's never had anyone, ever.
I need to be selfless.
Yeah, but what does that mean?
It means I'm gonna save Russell.
Maybe I couldn't save Vanessa...
but maybe I can save a robust teenager from New Zealand.
Yeah, but what I mean is, like, the word "selfless."
I literally don't know what that means.
I think we have some of the most obvious
product placement coming up in a minute.
It is. There it is, right there.
Yeah, isn't he holding it, though?
- He's holding this bottle of tequila. - He was.
I think it got sort of lost in the shuffle now.
This next segment, "fake X-Force" really...
We called it "fake X-Force"
because it's a first incarnation of X-Force
that doesn't become the ultimate X-Force.
But it was really modular in that it never had to be in the movie.
Like, you could have gone straight and had Domino and Deadpool
attack the convoy together.
And yet, it just appealed to us so darn much.
We thought it was so funny.
And just the idea that we were gonna pull the rug out from the audience,
I just think we committed to it. We just said, "Screw it.
"It's gonna be expensive, it's gonna be crazy,
"it's gonna take a while to shoot, but it's worth it."
Yeah.
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
It was something you can only really do in a Deadpool movie, I think, too.
And we really looked for those moments
of doing things that we could only do in a Deadpocfl movie.
The cocaine and, you know, the fake X-Force,
and just the little things that you won't ever see
in an Avengers or a Captain America.
You'll never see a reference to ejaculating into a soap dispenser
in a My Little Pony movie.
I mean, honestly, never. As long as you live, that won't happen.
- And you seeded in Annie there... - Yeah.
...so that when it comes back later...
Orphanage...
...it feels a little more integral to the story.
Music is, like, part of the DNA of Dead pool.
And you guys have sort of established that in the beginning.
It was great to have that music palette to play With.
Also, like, what modern superhero film soundtrack consists of
Cher, Barbra Streisand, Enya, Pat Benatar...
- All women. - Annie.
Yeah, Annie. What else am I missing?
- Yeah, no, it's crazy. - Yentl.
- Barbra Streisand, yeah. - Sorry, Barbra Streisand.
- It is sort of the divas' soundtrack. - Yeah.
And not one reference in this whole movie
to Barbra Streisand being Josh's mother-in-law.
- I don't know how that was overlooked. - How did we miss that?
Must be hard being the biggest guy in here.
Lonely at the top, eh?
They're moving us tomorrow.
Rhett, talk about Juggernaut and his introduction here,
and his introduction in this movie.
Well, he's just sort of this force of nature.
He's a little bit like the Hulk.
And we thought, what better thing to spring on Deadpool in the last act
than someone who's just massive,
full of rage, and unstoppable, literally.
And with the greatest catchphrase, too.
-"Nothing can stop the Juggernaut." - Right.
Which is true.
And it will probably be discovered along the way,
but Ryan Reynolds, the voice of Juggernaut.
- Well. . . - Yes.
Our dwindled budget is the voice of Juggernaut.
- We couldn't really afford a voice... - Did they modulate your voice?
Oh, yeah, we deepened it. Yeah. Please.
Juggernaut can't be a perfect soprano like me.
What was good about that is that he is animated.
We could change the dialogue, just like we can change the dialogue in the mask,
so you guys could write all the way up till we finished.
And we needed to get Ryan another franchise.
- Obviously. -(LAUGHS) Yeah.
Exactly what I needed. Yeah, yeah.
That's what I'll talk about on my deathbed.
- Gosh, should've had one more franchise. -(LAUGHTER)
That light box behind our characters there,
Presley versus Cayson, my two children.
I love that. I love those.
It's now hanging in my living room.
Yeah?
Not my children, the box.
- Yeah. - That would be creepy.
I love that all the fake X-Force guys
were all just favors, you know.
They were all kind of friends of the court
and people who said, "Hey, yeah, I'll come play for a few hours."
So, Bill Skarsgård, he's in Atomic Blonde,
and so we called him. And he actually plays It.
Yeah, the clown of It, yeah.
He's Pennywise in It.
This is Lewis Tan. His father is a famous stunt coordinator,
and he's sort of an up-and-coming action actor.
And he's actually right in that moment where he says,
"I'm basically better than you at everything,"
which is true. He is, pretty much.
We had a lot of fun at Shatterstar's expense.
Yes.
Some of it will be in the extended cut.
And these people were very gracious
because one of the things they agreed to do
was shoot extra action scenes that weren't actually for the movie,
but were for trailers, to make it look
like they had a larger part in the movie.
I was watching a commercial the other day,
and Bedlam's kicking ass,
and I'm just sitting there smiling to myself,
knowing that it's not in the movie.
Luck isn't a superpower.
- Yes, it is. - No, it isn't.
- Yes, it is. - No, ma'am.
- DOMINO: Mmm-hmm. - Mario No-pez.
Mario Lopez runner from the first movie.
- From the first introduction... - Mario No-pez.
- Yes. True. -...of Deadpool.
I was gonna just bring it back to that yes, it is.
Let's meet in the middle and say, "No, it isn't."
-(CHUCKLES) But it is. - Okay.
- You're hired! - You're hired.
Oh, lucky me.
I love Domino. I just love Domino.
It's sort of like she smoked a bowl of Matthew McConaughey
before she cruised in, which is so great.
That was added on the day? "Am I getting catfished?"
ALL: That was on the day, yeah.
And I will take credit for my pitching
Rob Delaney for this part because...
- Take it. - Yes.
Because my wife and I are huge Catastrophe fans.
As am I.
- Yeah. - I love that show.
- And I was like, "This is our guy." - Yeah.
And thankfully, you guys were like...
We looked everywhere.
All these different people we were talking about.
And when you said Rob Delaney, it was like a light... Just perfect.
And if Rob Delaney said no, it was gonna be Rhett Reese.
Unfortunately, I share a lot of qualities with Peter, which is sad.
That was actually kind of crazily on the table for a second.
- Yeah. - Thank God it didn't happen.
- Peter is based on Rhett Reese. - Thank God. Thank God.
All the way down to the sunscreen.
- Yeah. -(LAUGHTER)
Rhett wears sunscreen to bed,
that's one thing a lot of you don't know about.
He's afraid of the sun and he is afraid of the rain.
- Yeah. - So, he's afraid of the weather.
Which is the recipe for a writer.
Mother Nature in general, yeah, it keeps me working.
I will never get sick of this scene.
- Watching... Yeah, T.J... - Him being nervous.
- Yeah. Terrified. - Yeah.
"These restraints are pretty..." Yeah.
The Felicity joke is one of my favorites in the whole movie.
- That's you guys... - That's Rhett Reese.
Rhett Reese wrote that? It's one of my favorite lines.
There's another one that he came up with
where he's talking about how old he is,
and, like, you know, pain through the ages,
and he's like, "Well, growing old is not for sissies."
-(LAUGHTER) -ls that what he said?
T.J. is an alt machine.
He will sit on the day and give you about 18 different things.
...anything you wanna know.
Except for where they are.
Russell's in a convoy heading southbound on Gerry Duggan Parkway.
(ALL LAUGHING)
Gerry Duggan Parkway, another little Easter egg.
Deadpom writer. Great guy.
I want to get that thing framed.
I know. I love that.
Oh, that would be a great one to have.
Yeah, yeah. It's pretty amazing. (LAUGHS)
"Five-eleven."
And it was sort of a pitch from the art department.
I just said I want the plan drawn on the map,
and I gave them some rough ideas,
and then they came back with the whole movie...
Amazing. Just amazing.
- That's Roger, right? - This is great. Yeah. Roger.
Roger who planted all these little Easter eggs
-in the movie. - Everywhere.
So great.
And our props department were incredible, too.
- Dan and all those guys just killed it. - Yeah.
- Rhett Reese. - Sunscreen. There we go.
...but I guarantee he hasn't killed as many people as melanoma has.
You should grow a mustache, Rhett.
Did Rob...
Did you ask him to wear that mustache, or did he just have it?
He just had it. He came like that, yeah.
He came with a plan.
- He sort of said, "How about this?" - Oh, is that right?
Yeah, he had a character in mind.
Sort of a dad... He's just a dad.
"Just an honest guy looking for work in a contracting economy."
And Ryan is the mad genius, largely,
behind Peter's Twitter account.
- PeterW_74? - He's been going at it today.
Has he? I've got to get on there.
- He responded to Elon Musk's... - No way.
...cyborg dragon thing.
Saying he had a dream about it last night. "DM me for info."
That's great. Oh, my God. "Had a dream about it."
We've been pitching to Ryan
these, you know, lines, but largely,
-that's you just freewheeling. - Phew.
- It's so fun. - So fun.
Weta, again, so helpful here with the mask.
...look amazing!
Vanisher, I have no doubt you look amazing too.
Vanisher, you just keep forgetting is there.
Obviously, for, you know...
What a coup that ended up being, though.
And tell us how that came about.
You know, I always say that, never underestimate the power
of just asking for what you want, you know.
And we sat back and we thought,
who would be the greatest Vanisher of all time? And it was Brad Pitt.
Just, like, the biggest movie star in the world
utterly wasted in a wordless, invisible role,
and we would only see him for six or seven frames of footage.
And so I wrote him this long letter explaining what it was,
and the joke, and all he said back was,
"Bring me a coffee on the day."
And I said, "Like a coffee franchise or just a coffee?"
And he said, "A coffee." And that's what he did it for.
That's so funny. And, Dave,
do you wanna talk about your history with Brad Pitt?
No. I mean, I did... I was his stunt double on five movies.
But we had a great meeting with him
'cause there was a point in the beginning
-where we were thinking of maybe Cable. - Yeah.
And we had a great meeting with him at that point,
and things didn't work out.
But that's when he did give you the hint, like,
"Hey, man, I really love this world and I wanna be involved."
But also, like, if you could speak for a second,
it must be kind of mind-blowing, your journey that you've been on,
because, you know, you're working here with Matt Damon, with Brad Pitt,
all these guys that you've doubled and worked with
over the years as a stuntman.
And now you're in a scene directing them in this massive franchise movie.
I mean, that's gotta be kind of a crazy moment.
It's crazy, yeah.
It's kind of surreal, but...
You know, you're in the industry so long...
You know, just like us, everyone...
- You just get to know them as people. - Of course.
But we were all pretty geeked out...
Anytime you are sitting with Brad,
it's a little bit like, "That's Brad Pitt."
"That's Brad Pitt." I know.
After shooting his little scene in the film,
we all walked away, and we were literally walking on sunshine.
I think my actual asshole was whistling.
It was pretty crazy.
- That's disgusting. - Yeah, thank you.
Going back to the "ask and you shall receive,"
I do think, you know, we had the benefit...
Hold on, we gotta stop here, 'cause here comes Rhett Reese.
And Paul Wernick, our cameo.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Rhett Reese right there.
We had a much longer role
-in the movie. - Yeah.
- I implored Dave to cut that right out. - It'll be in the extended cut.
Cut it right out.
And here we have Brad Pitt.
(LAUGHTER)
Just wasted. Just wasted.
The "ask and you shall receive..."
Oh, sugarbear.
You know, we had the benefit of people
and people's kids loving the first movie.
- You know, Brad's kids loved Deadpool. - Yeah.
It was an easy yes, you know.
We didn't have that benefit on the first movie.
We asked, and we did not receive
-on the first movie. - Not a chance.
- Yeah. - No.
No.
Yeah, there was a lot of love...
Well, back then it wasn't exactly like,
"Ryan Reynolds in a comic book movie? Well, sign me up."
"Here's what I'll need, a Starbucks and $14 million."
Yeah.
"We won't get right on that."
This scene was originally conceived
as a minefield, am I wrong?
- Yeah. - Where they landed in a live minefield,
and everybody was getting blown up by mines.
But then we couldn't really justify, "Why are there mines?"
We're not in Cambodia.
(ALL LAUGH)
Little bit racist there, but...
Sorry.
I love this shot because it's a oner.
Again, Dave Leitch, genius. Like, everything in-camera.
This would have been CG! had it been any other director,
-but this timing... - Oh, I love this.
Just the body coming down, I mean, just real fire, everything.
It's just the best.
- Not one bit of CG there, right? - No.
- That was all real. - Yeah.
"Even after all this time, I still can't talk about it."
Oh, God.
This was dialogue we were writing
till the very end here.
DOMINO: They're headed into the tunnel.
Oh, that was Stan Lee on the side of the building,
right there. Did you see that?
- Was it? No. - I've never seen that.
We're losing focus.
DEADPOOL: Uh, that's a negative, sole survivor.
Luck is not a superpower! We are so fucked!
No, we most certainly are not fucked.
-(CARS HORNS HONKING) -(BRAKES SCREECHING)
DEADPOOL: Seriously, I don't get it!
What, you shoot luck lasers out of your eyes?
It's just it's hard to picture.
And certainly not very cinematic.
I mean, luck?
What coked out, glass pipe-sucking freakshow comic book artist...
came up with that little chestnut?
Probably a guy who can't draw feet!
We're referring to Rob Liefeld there,
creator of Deadpool.
- Good-naturedly. - Good-naturedly.
Rob Liefeld is always a sport.
In the first movie, he appears.
Definitely willing to laugh at himself.
Deadpool gives him a dirty look.
Right.
At the end of the day, that's his dad.
Deadpool's dad.
It's the highest form of praise, to be insulted by your own character.
- Totally. - It's irreverent.
Oh, shit.
It's Cable. 12 o'clock.
DEADPOOL: Okay.
New plan. Use all of your imaginary powers
to stop Cable from killing that kid.
I'm coming up on your six.
Shutting down the streets of...
Shutting down Georgia.
There was 120 police officers that day, to lock up all the side streets...
I had to send out a tweet, thanking the citizens of Vancouver
for putting up with our shooting of Spider-Man.
Dave, talk a little bit about how you envisioned Deadpool's powers...
Sorry, Domino's powers existing in a cinematic fashion,
because luck is not cinematic, and that's the joke we make here.
- Right. - But you made it cinematic.
As a choreographer, you get challenged...
There he is, right there. Dave Leitch.
Dave Leitch's cameo.
With the mullet.
- Chuck Norris' brother. - Yeah.
Looks like.
As a choreographer, it's fun to be put in a box
and have a problem to solve,
and the problem with her is, how do you show luck
and how do you demonstrate luck?
We started to play with this Rube Goldberg idea of luck,
and that's where we got geeked out on that, as choreographers.
And that's where we landed.
There's a Final Destination/ Rube Goldberg mashup of her powers which
I love, I mean, I'd love to see
-a whole movie of that stuff. -| know, me too.
I'm glad we actually gave her a beat to interact with Cable,
and now all of our main characters are in conflict with each other.
Because that was reshoots, right?
We didn't have that in the original.
We had a piece of her fighting, but, at this point,
we didn't have Deadpool interacting with Cable the way we do at the end here.
Got it.
But I say the additional photography
in this sequence really helped,
not only tie the action scene together,
but actually help Cable and Deadpool's arc.
Yeah, big time. It gives them the chance
to face off, which we really needed.
We needed.
I'd ask who you are, but you'll be dead in a second.
I'm Domino, and doubtful.
Love that move.
She did really well with the action.
She trained her ass off.
Hang in there, Doms!
Oh, this is really hard.
When you do movies like this,
you're trying to thread elements throughout
and make them pay off at the end,
and Julian's ability to pick a lock
was something you were emphasizing, Dave, you thought that'd be fun.
It ended up paying off at the end of the movie, in a fun way.
Totally.
You don't know how many of those things are gonna actually make the final out,
but you try to weave in every detail, and have an answer for every question.
He uses that pen for a lot of things.
"You racist son of a bitch."
- And Ryan always pitched... - That runner is hilarious.
Ryan pitched the idea that Deadpool
was accusing Cable of racism
-very, very early. - That was in Deadpool 1.
Yeah, exactly.
- It was years ago. - When we were shooting 1.
That moment was a reshoot,
and it makes the joke in the cab that much funnier.
And then the payoff at the end, in the death scene.
And who came up with this gag here, Dave?
This was one of your stunt guys, right?
Yeah. Sam.
I had brought Sam on to do pickups,
and they were choreographing down in Atlanta.
I think they were doing stuff down in Atlanta.
They'd sent me this, and I'm, like, "Nah. It's a little over the top.
"We're trying to have a dramatic moment with Cable and Deadpool."
And then I showed it to Ryan,
and you lost your shit!
"This is the greatest thing ever."
- So great. - It's over the top.
- We're, like, "Let's do this." - I loved it.
Obviously, a nod to Wolverine Origins.
This is great.
This stuff all really came together,
with the effects and stuff.
Cool.
Oh, that's great. The finished effect there looks amazing.
MAN: Knock, knock.
- Yeah, it's crazy. -"Knock, knock."
You see him a little bit here,
I could have grayed him out a little bit more.
People have already freeze-framed
a moment from the trailers.
"Is that Juggernaut?"
-"Is that Juggernaut?" - Yeah.
DEADPOOL: I'll be first to admit...
this did not go according to plan.
I'll also be the first to admit that that plan was written in crayon.
Looks like Russell found a new friend. Jelly.
It's funny, 'cause you guys have not seen any of this finished.
- No, we 're just watchin '. -(LAU G H S)
DEADPOOL: But Cable? That guy's in a mood.
(CHUCKLES) A mood that is about to get significantly worse.
I love her hands in the back.
And the shell bouncing off his head.
Totally.
That's great.
That turned out nicely.
The scale of this was to accommodate
that we're in this summer space, and we needed some big summer action.
And we got our Enya in, thank God. I needed that.
This is Dave's pitch, right?
It was actually Will, one of our storyboard artists,
who pitched it to me,
and I'm, like, "Oh, fuck. That's a great idea."
(GROANS)
We just took out the "Suck it, Mel Gibson" line.
'Cause nobody gets
the Lethal Weapon joke putting the shoulder back in...
- Old white guys. - Got ahead of ourselves there.
It's one of the reasons why Ryan
has neck and back problems now.
- I do all my own stuff. - You and Tom Cruise.
Yeah.
Uh-oh. Here he is, at last.
Oh, thank God. Oh, my God!
Juggernaut!
(GASPS)
I thought that was you!
I should've worn my white pants.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
That was a Paul Wernick callback to the first movie.
The "white pants" line.
This dialogue was in there, but, again,
just that physical motion of Ryan, spinning his hands like a little kid.
It's just so brilliant.
Like he's a kid, I get it.
But never meet your heroes.
That is such a Juggernaut thing to say.
I like where we ended up with that, too.
That's such a Jugger...
You're still like the fanboy to the bitter end.
"That's such a Juggernaut thing to say."
The thing we always try and maintain
amongst all the craziness, is this
real childhood innocence of Deadpool. He's a kid.
He's a little 15-year-old boy.
RUSSELL: I'm going to burn that headmaster alive.
You're not the revenge type.
Take it from a friend.
Friend? You were sick, and I protected you.
You said it yourself.
"I'm not your friend. Find someone stronger."
So I did.
(GRUNTS)
Russell, I couldn't protect you back then.
Now, he's just leaking. It's just gross.
"I care about you"? 'Cause goddamn it, I care about you, Russell.
What's Juggernaut got that I don't have?
Don't you say legs!
Did he just improvise this rope thing on the day?
It was just him, havin' fun.
- And he did it really well. - It's so good.
Kid's got rhythm.
Physically, he's super gifted. He can do anything.
Well, we love physical comedy.
We love slapstick, and, Ryan, you're just the best at it.
Get you in that suit, and we can immediately tell the difference
between you and the stunt doubles.
In terms of flexibility, and...
Not flexibility, no.
But in terms of just comedy, being able to sell comedy
while under the suit.
That walking of the Chewbacca/C-3PO sort of homage?
I don't know if people ever got that, but that's what inspired that.
The Empire Strikes Back.
It was the coldness in his eyes.
You should've heard it.
Ryan, talk about the writing of this scene.
This is entirely Ryan Reynolds here, and I would say that
it was the one scene in the movie,
from when it was originally written to when we shot it,
was virtually untouched.
Talk about your mindset writing this.
We all break off scenes, and we all go and take a run at them,
and we had it outlined really well, and
I just sat down in the basement where we did the first DVD recording,
and it just happened naturally.
We needed to get every character, and it just escalated with each one...
The arrivals.
This idea that I've got these little, tiny legs.
They are little and tiny.
(LAUGHS)
And the guy, Dan Glass and the effects teams, they just...
I just love what they did with these feet stretching.
Ryan sent us the pages.
It was about an 11 or 12-page scene, right?
An 11-page scene.
And he's, like, "I'm not sure, guys,
"I don't know if I went off the rails here. It got long."
Rhett and I both read it, and we're, like,
"Oh, my God. Don't touch a word.
"Let's go and shoot this thing."
And that's basically what we did.
It's scary to have an 11-page scene in...
A talking scene in an action movie, but it turned out great.
Everything rode on the legs, though.
If the legs didn't look right, we were gonna be screwed.
Where did shirt-cocking come from?
Shirt-cocking is a phrase that I've heard my wife say.
When I wandered into the bathroom wearing nothing but a T-shirt,
she said, "Really? You're shirt-cockin' it?"
What I wonder is, do you really walk around with just a shirt
and no pants or underwear?
It happens occasionally, it's not intentional.
I don't think I've ever done it in my life.
It's totally unintentional.
I'm gonna keep the shirt, but I'm gonna go change the pants and unden/vear.
I'm gonna lose the pants and underwear in one room,
but I'm gonna wander into the next room,
just shirt-cockin' it, full Winnie the Pooh,
and hopefully, no one will see me.
Too much information.
Karan Soni's performance here,
just go back and watch the scene at some point.
Just watching him and him trying not to throw up, because, oh, my God.
The shirt you're wearing there is another Easter egg.
The shirt I'm wearing there is the shirt that Chunk wore in Goonies,
which Josh didn't I was so sad, he didn't even notice.
I had to tell him. It was sort of humiliating.
Love this, right there.
Leslie Uggams is the best.
- A sport. - Game.
This is actually the... Oh, there it is.
(ALL LAUGH)
How did we get away with that?
That's my dick and balls, that's how we got away with it.
What am I gonna say?
"I'm sorry, guys, I'm sorry I'm not as big as you guys.
"I'm sorry I don't have the girth..."
You're huge compared to us.
You're huge compared to Rhett.
- What? - What?
For $45, you get sucky-suck.
BOTH: I only do over the pants, mouth stuff.
Fuck!
The Proposition has a wonderful Guy Pearce performance.
- That was a... - I love that line.
I don't think people ever hear it,
but The Proposition does have a wonderful Guy Pearce performance.
That score was from Basic Instinct, by the way.
Oh, it actually was?
I didn't realize it was actually from the movie.
It's another Easter egg.
That is the actual score, when she does this.
It's a great idea.
I love that look.
Your friend's about to make his first kill.
No offense, but if you know so much...
why not travel back to when he was a baby, kill him then?
Or better yet, head back a little further, kill baby Hitler.
That was a "Kill baby Steve Harvey" line.
- Which did not make it in. - Did not make it into the movie.
Why would we need to hurt Steve Harvey?
What has he done to us?
That's just lazy writing.
- I love that. - Gets a big laugh.
After that, he gets a real taste for it.
Like 10-year-old Kirsten Dunst, motherfucker!
So he keeps killing...
This is nice, though, because it transitions here
from a very funny scene to a really serious scene,
and then back again.
And somehow, it works. I don't know.
Relax.
I'm retrieving something from my utility bag.
It's a goddamn fanny pack...
and you know it, you sick son of a bitch!
There it is. My favorite line.
"You sick son of a bitch."
I'm sorry.
- I said, "You remind me of my wife." - No, I'm sorry that you said that...
while making heavy eye contact and applying lip balm.
It's actually lip gloss.
But she was funny...
and filtered her pain through the prism of humor.
Something I could never master.
It was my fault she died.
Again, this brings it back.
They're on this parallel track here.
- Each having lost somebody. - Yep.
- I came close a few times. -( TOMORROW PLAYING)
He wasn't too happy about that.
He was trying to hurt me...
and he knew exactly how to do it.
There's Julian, all grown up.
Into a fine, young man.
Whoa!
Is that me, or is that someone else?
- That is Julian's voice, altered. - Oh, good.
- We took it and then... - Okay, good.
- Yeah, we took yours out. - For a minute there
I was worried I was gonna be that one, too.
You were in for all the test screenings.
Really?
This is gonna be like The Crumps, or The Klumps.
Who is the family? I can't remember.
Eddie Murphy should have got a fucking Oscar for that movie.
He probably should have.
- So, so talented. - The Nutty Professor.
You know, I was in The Nutty Professor 2, actually.
I had a little more screen time than in this one.
Well, I'm sorry.
Damn it, I'm still smarting over that, Ryan.
Of course I fucking would!
But I wouldn't kill a kid.
I'm not asking you to kill a kid! I'll kill the kid.
I'm asking you to save hundreds of other kids.
Russell's gonna burn down that orphanage.
And I can imagine your dead girlfriend...
would want you to do the right thing, wouldn't she?
We have a rule, which is, one fart joke a movie.
Hate to break it to you, buddy.
- It's gone? - It's gone.
(GASPS)
(LAUGHS)
"Zero fart jokes a movie" is the new rule?
I guess, I don't know.
(GROANS)
I don't think that was Dave or I,
that was the studio asking that one.
- I don't blame them. - I feel gut-punched.
The end of this scene, Ryan, with his little baby legs,
let out a little thin fart.
- A thin, ribbon-like fart. - Oh, man.
- It was pretty glorious. - That 98.6%
of the studio leaving us alone has dropped to 97.2%.
Oh, that's painful, to discover it this way.
Right there, again, almost throwing up.
This is the toddler just shirt-cockin' it.
And then, the wide here.
Just shirt-cockin' it all the way.
He had another alt, which was "Just shirt-cockin' it.
-"Makin' deals." - Takin' deals.
(ALL LAUGH)
"Makin' deals."
We don't really explain how the legs
grew back so quickly from here, but...
- No. - It's a Deadpool movie.
BLIND AL: No idea what's happening.
(SOFTLY) Probably for the best.
That's funny, but the fart...
You should have just plugged it in, right there.
Just gone... (IMITATES FLATULENCE)
This is additional.
We shot this after.
We had a different version of this scene.
Does it not start with,
"And that is why you should never eat a raw..."?
- Did it start with that? - Yeah.
You'll do no such thing.
Why don't you just say it in an Indian accent?
What the hell are you...?
Once again, intolerance rears its ugly head.
I am so sorry. It gets better.
I love the uncomfortable stroking here.
It makes me laugh.
I'm with the old white guy on this one. And that's a twist.
So what exactly do you do in the future, anyway? Some kind of soldier?
- Why? - So good.
Karan goes with anything. He's so great.
Deadpool's pansexuality coming out.
Sure.
Had to bring that up.
Your entire generation fucked this planet into a coma.
Boom! (IMITATES EXPLOSION)
Spoiler alert.
Planets.
That's one of my favorite lines.
It distills who Deadpool is in one line.
Yeah.
I think you improvised that, as I recall. "Planets."
You're just an annoying clown dressed up as a sex toy.
Well, I got news for you. My heart is in the right place.
Russell's not gonna kill anyone.
Because of me, he's gonna know what real love looks like.
Because of you, I'll always know what a grown man with baby balls looks like.
I'm a grower, not a shower.
I should've finished college.
"I should have finished college." I love that line.
We went back and forth on this song.
Yeah.
It was Chicago's Hard To Say I'm Sorry for a long time.
I think we just got sick of it, maybe, I don't know.
- I don't know. - I think they both work.
This is more of a reference to...
Direct tribute to Say Anything.
Always love the duct tape on the suit.
Yeah.
And Colossus does wear socks apparently,
in case you've ever wondered.
- They look wool. - He's chilling.
Chilling at home.
- Reading the rule book. - Yeah, yeah.
His favorite pastime.
There's another version of this scene where
you basically tell the whole plot in about
-15 seconds. - Yeah, jam it out.
Yeah, you jam it out, and that's really fun.
And when we shot that scene,
it was, again, the first couple days of shooting,
and we didn't want to reveal the plot to anybody.
So we just had to go... blah, blah, blah.
I was just going... blah, blah, blah.
In case anybody was in hearing range.
Earshot, yeah.
DEADPOOL: And I'm not gonna bail on him like everyone else.
Oh, come on!
(GROANS)
Any chance Pigeon Wings is available?
That's just fine!
You know, you try so hard to keep things
secret so that the audience
enjoys the experience.
And I'll tell ya, everyone's done a darn good job.
We're about three weeks from release.
- Nobody's sniffed out Damon or Pitt. - No.
Nobody knows it's for sure whether Juggernaut's in there,
nobody knows X-Force dies. All these things.
Only recently did they learn about Firefist.
- They didn't know who Firefist was. - Yeah, yeah.
Done a pretty nice job of keeping it
under wraps in the age of the Internet.
JUGGERNAUT: Yeah, but he's in a wheelchair, so even-steven.
A lot of people don't realize that
that's Professor Xavier's brother,
- Juggernaut. - Yeah.
- For the fanboys. - Yeah, the fanboys.
But, yeah, that makes me laugh.
What do you say we go fuck some shit up?
"Let's fuck some shit up" is my legal middle name.
(ALL LAUGH)
It's a long way to go for a line, but, yeah.
It works.
Oh, God.
We had a lot of alts on this scene too.
Good Lord, did we ever.
30 seconds.
I finally know why I'm here.
I was raised in this place.
Well, not raised. I was tortured.
Wow! It's your cosmic reason for being here.
- Shall we? - This is gonna be fun.
DEAD POOL: Yeah!
Hey! Been meaning to ask you...
what's with the creepy, dirty hobo bear?
It's not dirt. It's the blood of my dead daughter.
I have a gluten sensitivity.
So one glass of wine, I just...
(IMITATES EXPLOSION)
(LAUGHS) That gets me every time.
Especially because wine doesn't have gluten in it.
- All the better, all the better. -(ALL LAUGH)
I know, so stupid.
I think the other one was, "Are you bear, God?
-"It's me, Margaret." -"Are you bear, God?"
- So horrible. - Terrible.
- Look at that. - Yeah.
This is an original song, yes?
Yeah, Diplo.
This is an original song, Diplo and...
- A crew of French Montana. - French Montana.
What I love about it is, you know, we do a lot of retro music,
and to put this new song in and create
what will hopefully become a cool classic is very John Hughes of you.
It was always sort of one of our puzzles, this part.
Score over the whole section didn't always feel right,
and we wanted to find a song that sort of bonded the guys and had fun
-and sort of defined X-Force. - Yeah.
...when you pull the trigger.
(GROANS)
That gun is amazing!
RUSSELL: Say it!
This whole sequence was originally
supposed to take place at night.
- Yeah. - And I think just...
What, budget? And just the idea of shooting
for three straight weeks of night shoots.
Well, it was summertime too,
so night in Vancouver was incredibly short.
And it was also an aesthetic, right?
It was an aesthetic choice of, you know, at nighttime
it becomes a little bit darker, both figuratively and literally.
I think, Deadpool, you know...
Yeah, it was really like...
- This is where I put in the... - Wilhelm scream.
There's an Easter egg of the sort of dirty chorus
that we improvised that one day.
Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, it's like, a couple of lines you're like, what are they saying?
"Holy shitballs"?
Holy shit. It's great.
Kind of a little bit of a nod to the first movie here.
Yeah.
He gets the knife into his brain.
- Look at the eyes. - I love it.
- Papa ? - Just a slight down turn.
Would have been funny to put that in.
Papa, Please?
I added this in the background.
If you'll notice Cable is getting pummeled.
I love Cable getting
-just thrown. - That's great. I love it.
Scissoring here.
This went on for...
- Yeah, we... (LAUGHS) - It goes on forever.
We had about five other gestures back to back to back.
- Will that be in the extreme version? - Yeah.
- Tune in. - Yeah, this goes on.
- Goes on. - Only on DVD.
Which you probably already own, you're watching it now, so watch that.
Yeah, you can be watching the extreme version.
We've talked about it before, but, Dave, talk about
Colossus and kind of the formation of the character
and voice and physical actor
who's on set with us every day, Andre. Talk about...
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of
people that make up him. I mean, obviously the CG artists.
But more importantly, Andre' on set is interacting with you guys
-and with Ryan. - In a mo-cap suit, right?
Yep, in a mo-cap suit.
And then Stefan does the facial capture.
- And the voice. - That's a lot of people.
But, I mean, it sort of takes that to do it right.
It takes that group of people.
- You know? - Yeah.
He's doing great.
RUSSELL: Say it!
- Russell. - DEADPOOL: Bingo!
(GROANING)
(JUGGERNAUT LAUGHS)
I would say a couple of weeks ago,
I was getting nervous
of how this was gonna turn out in terms of the renders and the time we had.
You know, we pushed up our release date two weeks.
I thought the guys at Framestore came and made
strides at the end. I think those characters look great.
- You know? - Oh, it looks amazing.
This was a Ryan and Dave addition here.
And it wasn't in the script originally.
I think it was a great one. It was a chance for Deadpool and Cable
to come together and fight and kick some ass together.
Yeah.
We stole it. We literally didn't even tell the studio we were shooting it.
No, we were getting sort of a,
"We can't afford these stunt guys to come in for two days
"to shoot this. We don't have any money left."
And we just did it.
Basically. - We stole it.
But we really needed that moment for them to connect.
It was sort of like bringing their arc full-circle,
so you really believe that they would save each other's ass
in the next minute here.
And, again, this song came in last-minute,
but it's all about them, the team, X-Force.
Seeing them come together, seeing how they're gonna work in the future.
Yeah.
Well, and you're seeing some nice
manifestations of Domino's luck again,
in her fight with the orderlies.
(GROANS)
I love Ryan's improvved line as Juggernaut.
-"You commie motherfucker!" -"You commie motherfucker!"
Not gonna go over well in certain countries, but...
Oh, the music kicks ass in this, I love it.
-"I'm just gonna use this brick." - Yeah.
Again, that was a Ryan idea.
He's like, "if we're gonna do it, we need to do it Deadpool way,"
and then you were just riffing, you were like, "I don't know.
"I'm gonna use this brick."
I'm like, "That's it! Don't say anything else!"
I brought over the choreography team
and I'm like, "He's gonna fight with a brick! Go!"
It always works best if you limit characters.
Especially characters with superpowers, it's more interesting when
they're highly limited in some way, I think.
- Yeah. - You know?
Whether it's the studio taking budget away from you,
you have to start to get creative with character,
or whether it's stealing a scene at the last second.
What you choreographed there, though, Dave, was amazing.
'Cause that was six hours, I think, to shoot that.
Yeah, we had half a day to shoot that.
Back into score here, which is great.
Wait! He hasn't killed anyone yet!
- What more do you need to see? - Don't you fucking dare!
He's just a kid!
Tick, took. Meter's running!
I'm like panting, 'cause I'm watching this.
"What's gonna happen?"
No, you haven't seen it with visual effects.
- I haven't seen it with all the effects. - The finished effects.
I mean, this is actually the...
That we're watching, you guys will have it at home, obviously,
the finished movie, we're watching something that's still colors.
Three-quarters of the way there, but it already looks amazing.
Yeah.
And Yukio and NTW were not originally in the third act.
It wasn't until later that we decided that we needed to pay them off,
that they were just too important to leave out of the third act.
And so they show up at just the right moment
to help bring down Juggernaut.
And I think NTW and Wade have an interesting relationship.
They really have a brother-sister thing going on.
I feel like there's a lot of love there, even though you don't see it
on display all the time.
- I love that stunt. Incredible stunt. - I love that shot.
- It's just awesome-looking. - Oh, my God.
I would be in the hospital for 100 years
if I did that stunt.
That shot is such a great
integration of visual effects and stunts.
The practical stunt of them getting launched out.
- A practical special-effects explosion. - Yeah.
And then VFX putting the two together.
I mean, it looks great.
If you can have real practical stuff
within your visual effects, it makes it so much better.
Totally.
I'm getting good at this shit.
DEADPOOL: Go, go, go!
You can see it's getting darker and darker
as the scene goes on.
We're trying to get to a dusky feel
for that final image we'd always talked about.
Like an online predator who lost his laptop.
There's one bullet left in that gun.
Wait, wait, wait! Please, just give me a second!
I got this.
- Russell! - Stay back! Go home, Wade!
Let's talk. It doesn't have to go this way!
I love how broken he is in his eyes.
Julian, he's great.
You know as an actor, he's willing to go there
and really access it.
You become everything he says you are, but worse.
You're just a kid.
You don't wanna hurt anyone.
How do you know what I want?
Because I've been inside you.
- I love that. -(ALL CHUCKLE)
And there's an upcoming moment here,
originally Firefist slapped
a power dampening collar onto Deadpool.
And Dave had the great idea to have
Deadpool put it on himself, essentially as a means of
forcing Fire fist to kill him.
And it just feels more emotional, doesn't it?
It just feels better, and it's coming up here.
And also, when he gets blasted back
and he loses the red in his suit,
that was very intentional, that it starts to become the X-Force suit.
You know, the slow transformation of Deadpool onto this X-Force team.
I can't trust anybody!
(GROANING)
Wonderful kid.
It was a challenge to keep a level of spectacle up,
when really this is just a dramatic scene about
a teenager and a dad.
You know, a dad and a teenager. How do we
keep up some comic-book spectacle?
That's great, look at him.
(MOUTHS) Fuck this!
I like "Fuck this!" You can see it on his lips.
-"Fuck this." - Yeah.
And this happened when we were shooting it.
On set, we just started to lay tracks to it.
Ryan early on had sent me a Deadpom 2 playlist,
-and this was on there. - Yeah.
'Cause we were thinking we'll find some place in the orphanage
where it would work and it's counterpoint.
And it was the first track I laid against there, and I was like...
- On set, we did it too. - Yeah, I'm like, "It's never leaving."
- No. - This is, like, great.
We always knew we wanted to kill
Deadpool at the end of this movie.
- Yeah. - Or at least experience death.
Tell me they got that in slow motion.
(DEADPOOL COUGHING)
That's not good.
No, sir.
Deadpool goes from, again, being selfish to selfless here.
He sacrifices.
Also that idea I love that, you know,
one act of kindness can change the whole world.
Or save the whole world really.
Yeah, but I remember feeling like quite a breakthrough
when we came up with the idea of Cable
using the time machine to go back and save Deadpool
by placing the coin over his heart.
It allowed us both to kill Deadpool,
and to have him go and see Vanessa for real in the afterlife.
Actually die, but then also return to be with X-Force.
And the coin led us then to the idea of
his heart being in the right place, in this case,
literally being in the right place
to convince Firefist to be a good person, essentially.
I remember that late-night email
that you sent Rhett of,
"Not until your heart's in the right place," and I was like, "That's it."
- Yeah. - That's it.
Also I love the idea that Cable stays.
We don't really know why Cable stayed except
that he wants to fix this world so it doesn't destroy his own.
That was a late add. Yeah, that was your idea, Ryan,
as a late add to help us better
motivate Cable's decision to try to help the world.
Here we have the much-debated,
longest death scene on Earth.
- Used to be longer. - Never debated for me.
- No, we always loved it. - I could have kept going.
- I love it. - I feel the same.
This could have lasted 10 minutes, I would have enjoyed it.
'Cause I think that's what Deadpool...
When we're talking about
things that you can only do in a Deadpocfl movie, this is it.
Yes, yes.
This was an early draft that you guys,
Rhett and Paul, had written, this death scene.
Yeah, this goes back to the very first draft, I think.
And it was a bit inspired by the
Zombieland Bill Murray death scene.
Yeah, the lingering death that won't end.
Turns out that I'm the lucky one.
Thank you.
Hey, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
It has been a pleasure.
- Hi, Yukio. - Hi, Wade!
We have the line where, "I liked your hair shorter."
I think everybody did.
- That's right, right. - Right.
That's in the extended cut, yeah?
Yeah.
As is the...
- Tom Hiddleston. - The Hiddleston.
The Tom Hiddleston is in.
We're going to hell for that.
It's the balance of genuine emotion,
real drama, and comedy.
And fucking with them.
Who wrote the score right here? It's really pretty.
- This is the Logan death scene. - This is from Logan'?
- This is the Logan death score. - We used the exact one?
From the beginning of the movie,
I say, "I'm dying in this one too."
That is amazing. I didn't realize we'd actually used it.
I hope the composer gets royalties.
I hope so too, but we're not
gonna give any royalties to that composer.
It's all licensed.
I'm sure he was very happy. Or she.
Look.
Family is not an F-word.
All right?
There's one out there for you. (COUGHS)
Just keep looking, okay?
Guys, for a second there...
- See, it's really emotional. - Yeah.
It's good, a great performance.
"The soul exiting the husk," I love that line so much.
That was just me dicking around.
On the stage. We weren't even in the...
No, that was a pickup. That's like just
about a patch of dirt that big.
Yeah.
I kept expecting you to call cut, so I just kept going.
I think that was Dave's master plan.
"I'm just not gonna cut.
"If I don't cut, you can't stop. You just gotta keep thinking of stuff."
I feel the soul exiting the husk.
Yeah.
- Love it so much. - Yeah.
And they're right, this was shot on a soundstage
months later, where they just created this little patch
-of ash and brick. - Yeah.
And we're just trying to pick up
a different line for Colossus there, not...
...keep 90mg-
I love this too.
That was not Cable. That was actually Josh.
He just did not have the stamina
to wanna listen to the rest of this speech.
There's a great bit of music editing in here
from Ted Caplan who edited the music in the first one too.
And it's like bringing it up, swelling it just enough, but not...
- Too much, yeah. - Not predicting it, and then
letting it out and bringing it back in, but not
-signaling it's gonna happen. - You're picturing an orchestra.
"Oh, wait, he's not dead yet.
"Put the violin down. Okay, pick it back up."
I just love Josh's face up here...
Me too.
When he makes this decision, yeah.
- So emotional. - A great actor
giving you a great moment with doing very little.
Love this song, love this version of the song.
Proves my point that every song is better acoustic.
Yes. Love the acoustic.
Spoken like a true person over 40.
(ALL LAUGH)
- Yeah. Yeah. - Every song is better acoustic.
So, Ashes.
We were thinking of trying to make it thematic,
and we were really trying to land it here.
- Yeah. - And maybe we'll see it in...
- Yeah, one of the other versions. - Put it in the extended version.
I mean, there's a great version of Ashes that plays here acoustic as well.
Oh, wow. That would be awesome.
Most comfortable day on set for me, right here.
The only time you'll see Ryan Reynolds's
handsome mug in this movie.
In the first one, it was, what, a third, a third, a third, right?
A third in the mask, third in the makeup, third you as you.
- He's got a terrible name. - It's just awful.
- Ugh. - I tried to tell him.
Is this heaven?
It is now.
- In here? - It's good.
Oh, no, we fixed it.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, I thought you saw one.
No.
They just came in
-the last couple of days. - I love this.
You were using this cool technique there
that lets the focus shimmer and move a little bit.
Yeah, they are shift-tilt lenses.
I mean, you could do the same process in post.
Speak about that though.
They are all little moments in history, right?
So there was an idea we had early on
and that we wanted to see how
Cable's time travel worked,
and it was a layer of historical events, and he roughs it out.
Like, about there, you know. So it was supposed to be
he slides through time. It's not super specific.
So there was still a little tracking he had to do when he landed.
It's okay.
There's a time for us. It's just not now.
And always the emotional heartbeat
of the movie, this relationship.
VANESSA: Your F-word.
WADE: Why?
VANESSA: You'll find out.
This POV was always really tricky for me.
I think finding a way to explain
she's pointing to your new family.
But I think we finally landed it with that image of, like...
It's not quite from your perspective, but...
No, yeah. It's... Yeah.
Yeah, I think this scene turned out beautiful.
And that's, again, Jonathan Sela,
and your going back to the lenses...
He wants to do everything in-camera, too.
So we put that effect on in-camera.
Yeah, it's a tribute to Morena that
she has such a big impact on this movie
'cause her screen time is not that long actually,
but she really, really nails it and makes you really feel like
Vanessa's baked into the movie from start to finish.
- Time to make the chimichangas. -30 seconds.
What's that?
I changed that take as well.
- It's great. - Yeah.
It works great, and the line works great.
Yeah, there's just so many things
that have come together at the last moment with the effects.
You can see it's really fun.
- Love that. - I do too, yeah.
There's a thing that makes me giggle now.
It's like it's fast-forward, fast forward, and then it says "play."
- I love it. - That's subtle.
RUSSELL: You sacrificed yourself for me.
DEADPOOL: It would seem I...
Huh?
Genuine, high-grade lead.
You time-sliding son of a bitch!
You did this for me?
Wait. You can't go back.
You used the last of your fuel. What about your girl, your wife?
Now, my family's safe. And I didn't do it for you.
This is something we wanted to round it.
This came in later too, like, to round out their relationship
and, like, really arc it. It's good.
No. You did it for me.
Such an asshole.
- Pretty sure you did. - No, I'm positive I didn't.
Fine. All right, let's flip a coin. Okay?
Heads, you did it for me. Tails, you did it for me.
I'm not even gonna look, because you did it for me.
So childish. That's what I love about it.
That's literally what a 10-year-old would do.
So childish and arrogant.
But that's the spirit of Deadpool.
I have an idea.
No, no, no! Let's not do that. Please!
I'd rather die of cancer. Let's just...
Oh, God! They do say the pen is grosser than the sword.
-(COLLAR BUZZING) - RUSSELL: We need the code.
Try seven?
DEADPOOL: Settle down, Captain Lucky.
It's not gonna be one number.
God, that's lazy writing.
I still got it.
(ALL LAUGH)
That was another thing we didn't think.
We shot it, and we're like, "It's not gonna be in the movie!"
- There it is. You never know. - Just works.
But it was good to pay off everybody at the end
-with their power and... - Yes, yes, absolutely.
I'm a firm believer... Screenwriting students out there,
everything in Act Three should be planned for
and exist somewhere earlier.
I mean, you should be paying stuff off almost every second of the way.
- Yeah, yeah. - No need to go full Yentl.
Gonna pretend like that never happened.
As close as we come to a Barbra Streisand
reference to her own son-in-law.
All you dirty mutants are gonna rot in hell with the boy!
Your souls are beyond redemption!
Let's see your soul, perv!
No, no! No! No more! We're better than that!
We're better than him!
No more senseless violence! No more bloodshed!
We'll let karma take care of him.
The day of reckoning is here!
Oh, God.
Just the shoe...
Just his shoe, I never noticed that before.
- His glasses are actually... -...really, really on that screen.
Again, now Dopinder gets his payoff.
I love this too.
I could hear you coming the last 30 seconds.
I could barely keep a straight face.
I want some more.
I bet you do, Brown Panther.
Last-minute add.
I was very nervous about that one.
- Huge laugh. - Yeah.
Huge laugh.
Besides, we're X-Men.
No, you're X-People.
You're exhausting.
I see what you did there.
We have to do the other jokes
-in the extended... - Yeah, for sure.
There was something... Yeah, we didn't mention about the death,
like, we set up the whole thing like, "I'm gonna die in this one too,"
and then we pay off the Logan...
Like, you're gonna die, but you're gonna die better than Logan.
Gonna die to Logan's music.
You're gonna make Logan look foolish, the way he dies.
His obsession with Wolverine is pretty...
- Pretty awesome. - Yeah.
DEADPOOL: If there's anything you take away today...
other than the need to Google, "What the fuck is dubstep?"...
it's that we all need to belong to someone.
- Little Pat Benatar. - I love that.
It's funny, I had sent that still...
Beautiful.
...of conceptual art to Scheunemann
yesterday when we color-corrected it.
- It's great. - Yeah.
And I went with all the little Deadpools.
I love this.
(HUMS)
Who's the artist on this, Dave, do you know?
It's actually Method Studios in New York. They do title.
- They are a title company. - Isn't Method in Vancouver?
There's a Method in Vancouver. It's the same company,
but these are the creative team in New York did these,
and they specifically do title sequences and things.
It was a riff on...
I had originally had this idea of doing it in nine-to-five
with these, sort of... Every place you went, you had another drawing.
And so, we'd started down this path with them,
and they loved it, the artists there loved it.
So they started to send me these things,
and then we started to curate them into...
I love it.
Ryan adjusted that up until a couple days ago.
Oh, I love that. It's great.
- I do love this song. - It's so good.
This song's been around for us since...
Since the first playlist back when.
Ryan keeps an over-arcing Dead pool playlist somewhere.
Songs that we've used,
songs that we intend to possibly use in the future.
It's a real crap-shoot in traffic
if you're pumping some of that out
and people pull up next to you, like,
-"I could be jamming to just anything." - Anything.
Really, like, across the board.
Some of it is pretty embarrassing.
And when we were all in the same room writing,
-we were playing that playlist. - Yeah.
That looks great. I haven't seen that. It looks fantastic.
So we decided to go right into the codas.
In that, we loved them so much that we wanted people to experience them.
Yeah, yeah. Don't make them wait too long.
This was Dave's idea here, this coda, right?
The time travel... I mean, I was always...
Had an anxiety that we were killing Vanessa,
like, "Okay, maybe we can just shoot it as protection."
We can save her with Cable's time travel device,
and then it became a riffing session of, like,
-"Oh, let's travel through time..." - Yeah.
- And let's go nuts. - Such a good idea.
Let's kill baby Hitler.
That was my favorite one.
- Which will be on the extreme. - Extreme version.
I hope we sharpened the cream cheese spreader.
-(BOTH PANTING) -(GASPS)
And it is a great emotional moment
and a great payoff for the audience,
and then we get to subvert it right away.
I'm 15 pounds lighter there.
It's so weird.
Quick reshoot there.
DEAD POOL: Peter!
Whoo! X-Force!
Walk away! Just walk away!
But we're X-Force!
Nope! We're not, there's no X-Force!
Movie magic. He is not sitting on the same corner he was before.
- No. That was a corner we built. - Standing on the same corner.
- We re-created it. - We brought him back in. Yeah.
We always shoot that coda
as additional photography
'cause we want to shape the movie and see, you know, how it feels.
You know, it's always the last thing we shoot, the last thing we write.
I tell you, nothing felt better than this.
We went back into the archives and got the original dailies,
so we could extend Hugh's close-up.
Great. It's great.
I love you pumping the bullets in here.
Don't scratch! Just cleaning up the timelines!
"Don't scratch."
(WHISPERS) Love you!
Welcome to the big leagues, kid.
(GUNSHOT)
You're welcome, Canada.
Love it.
And there we go.
Deadpool 2, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes. And by the way, there are a lot of credits.
Lot of people that make a movie. Lot of people.
We can sit through them
and meditate on all the hard work, or we can...
- I'm gonna leave, actually. -(ALL LAUGH)