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LEFT OF CENTER


Throughout production of “Deadpool 2,” Reynolds, Reese and Wernick never stopped writing. “It didn’t end with the final draft,” says Reese, noting that during postproduction of the first “Deadpool,” “We rewrote a lot of Deadpool’s dialogue. He was behind a mask, so you could place whatever words you wanted into his mouth.”

“We flew under the radar on the first one,” says Wernick. “On this one, it was quite the opposite. The pressure was immense. Every little detail that came out in the press became a massive story. All these little nuggets that leaked out over time




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made us realize that the expectations are enormous. What Ryan, Rhett and I tried to do is just what we did on the first one. As long as it makes us laugh and there are tears coming from our eyes, and those are

tears of happiness, we feel like we’re in good shape.” Reynolds wrote Deadpool 2 with Reese and Wernick.

Reese adds, “That’s been a real treat, because he’s such a brilliant mind and talented in so many ways. Ryan is a joke machine.”

Wernick says, “As long as we can stay left of centre and subvert what you expect, then we’re doing our job. The beauty of “Deadpool” is, the more obscure the reference, the funnier it is.”

Leitch adds, “In making a sequel, you have to be true to the material and the script. The script that Ryan, Rhett and Paul came up with has its own heart and soul. As a storyteller, you want to make sure that you’re true to that, and then you have to be true to the DNA of the original

franchise that was so successful. There’s the satire and the irreverence of the R-rated comedy, and this over the top action. And then, you have to find a voice as a filmmaker and make it your own.

That’s the biggest challenge - you don’t want to alienate an audience. With my background, there may be expectation that the action is going to be bigger, so you have to service those things. It’s the puzzle. In the process of directing, you have to make those bold choices, swing for the fences and be provocative. And what other universe allows you to do that more than “Deadpool”? You can make big choices and apologize for them with one fourth-wall break. That’s what’s cool about the source material. They break the rules.”
“David really gets “Deadpool,” says Reese. “He’s one of the best action directors in the world, and he amps the action like crazy.”

“Action is a huge element of “Deadpool,”” Wernick adds, “and we’ve got one of the best in David Leitch. He makes everybody else’s action look like dated eighties movies. The action in “Deadpool 2” is brilliant. It’s going to be jaw-dropping.”

Executive producer Aditya Sood says, “David brings something to the table that no one else has. There are sequences in this movie that I don’t think anybody else could ever have done and they dovetail so well with Deadpool’s anarchic wit and his left-of-centre thinking.”

ROB LIEFELD – COMIC CREATOR & FAN!


“I am an artist who wanted to write because I got control of the content of my visuals,” says “Deadpool” creator Rob Liefeld. “That’s where the battle is won - the visuals win the day in terms of cool. I still turn my head at a cool “Deadpool” drawing, whether I drew it or not or if I see him in real life. That red and black looks magnificent.”

Liefeld is a fan of his character’s movies. “Ryan made “Deadpool” a little dirtier. He brings that extra-edgy material that works. He’s perfect for it. They’ve taken great liberties with the R-rating and I think it found its own niche. I’m thrilled that there’s this different muscle that Fox gets to work out.” Leifeld notes that part of the reason he loves it so much is that he was a teenager in the 80s when there was a seminal slate of now classic R-rated action picture franchises, such as “Terminator,” “Alien” and “Predator.” “It was before we got to this PG-13 space where everything’s safe. I’m thrilled that “Deadpool” is on par with those.”

While “Deadpool” spans comic books to actions figures, Liefeld says, “The best version is what they’ve done with these films because they’ve put the utmost care and love into them and they haven’t betrayed the comic. They take some liberties, but they’re sticking true to the sources, and they should, because there is a fan base out there. X-Force is the second best-selling comic of all time. I thought that would not stand. Twenty six years later, now I know it’s never going to fall.”

WHEN THEY GO LOW...


“”Deadpool” does not take the genre seriously, and it also doesn’t take itself seriously,” says Reese. “In this movie, Ryan Reynolds makes fun of himself. He makes fun of the writing. He makes fun of Fox. He makes fun of all the things associated with the franchise, so it softens those jokes about other people when we’re also willing to make jokes about ourselves.”

“Ryan Reynolds is a comic genius,” says Reese. “One of his many facets of comedic genius is his willingness to go places that are just shy of objectionable. When Paul came up with the soap dispenser bit [sorry but no spoilers here if the reader has not yet seen the movie!], I was like ‘oh no’ and then of course ‘oh yes,’ that’s just perfect. Our political phrase isn’t “When they go low, we go high.” Ours is, “when they go low, we go lower.” We’re willing to go all the way, dig all the way down to get a laugh.”

And just to clarify the writers’ individual senses of humour, while Wernick came up with the soap dispenser gag, Reese contributed the ‘toilet paper’ treatise, which happens later in the film. Reese admits, “I have a toilet paper manifesto of my own, about the inadequacy of toilet paper. I do this bit about it, and I did it for Ryan. We all looked at each other and said, “This has to go into the movie somehow.” Then we discussed what caliber actor would we need to do such a scene.”” Finding the right thespian who could deliver that passage was a challenge, to say the least.


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