Speaker 1: Warning, Today's episode contains spoilers for all of Deadpool's big
Speaker 1: screen appearances. That includes X Men origins Wolverine on all
Speaker 1: the Deadpool movies. So you don't watch those things and
Speaker 1: you intend to watch them, and you care about being
Speaker 1: spoiled from those things, maybe watch them first then come back.
Speaker 1: Hell my name is Jasononcepcion And on Mesday Night and
Speaker 1: welcome back to X Ray Visions week long coverage of
Speaker 1: all things Deadpool.
Speaker 2: So Wolverine.
Speaker 1: We're dropping episodes every single day leading up to the
Speaker 1: release of Deadpool Wolverine, covering everything from both characters comics origins,
Speaker 1: to the long history of their film adaptations.
Speaker 3: In today's episode, it's another chunky omnibus. We're revisiting the
Speaker 3: previous two Deadpool movies, from the decade long fight to
Speaker 3: the Get Deadpool GREENLT to the abandoned plans for a sequel,
Speaker 3: and the almost abandoned third movie, Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and five, Ryan Reynolds met with Perennial.
Speaker 4: What a time mark.
Speaker 3: He met and he met with Avia rad a perennial
Speaker 3: real life character in these types of stories, who we
Speaker 3: talk about a lot, the former chairman, CEO and founder
Speaker 3: of Marvel Studios, and signed on to take the role
Speaker 3: of Deadpool all the way back in two thousand and five.
Speaker 3: Imagine that at the time Marvel was hoping to develop
Speaker 3: the movie with Davides Goya.
Speaker 4: We've had him on the show, Comic and Commision movie himself.
Speaker 3: He'd worked on the Blade trilogy, Batman Begins, he's now
Speaker 3: doing Foundation. You know, he's a very sensible cinematic fellow.
Speaker 3: It's a good choice to go with. The rights to
Speaker 3: put on the big screen at that time were owned
Speaker 3: by New Line Cinema, who we know for all the
Speaker 3: fantastic horror movies and cool stuff like that, but they
Speaker 3: never moved forwards with it, and eventually they sold the
Speaker 3: rights to twentieth Century Fox in two thousand and five,
Speaker 3: who had purchased the film rights to The X Men
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety three and Fantastic Four in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 4: If you remember, that.
Speaker 3: Was when Marvel was essentially insolvent going through bankruptcy, so
Speaker 3: they sold off a lot of their rights for a
Speaker 3: very little amount of money, and we are still living
Speaker 3: with the ramifications of that now.
Speaker 4: Once twentieth Century Fox became involved.
Speaker 3: The movie ended up hitting even more delays and eventually
Speaker 3: ended up languishing in development.
Speaker 4: Hell enter X.
Speaker 1: Men Origins Wolverine. Four years later, Reynolds joins the cast
Speaker 1: of X Men Origins Wolverine as a version the introduction
Speaker 1: of Wade Wilson the murc with a Mouth question mark.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that. There are rumors that Reynolds felt
Speaker 1: pressure to take the role here or else risk losing
Speaker 1: a character he really passionately wanted to play to some
Speaker 1: other actor. The opening of the movie does feature a
Speaker 1: wise cracking Wade Wilson talking about how much he loves
Speaker 1: his katanas. He's trash talking all his fellow mercenaries in
Speaker 1: the film, which I believe is the screenwriting debut of
Speaker 1: David Bennioff of Game of Thrones fame. Since this took
Speaker 1: place during the rite strike, much of Wade's dialogue was
Speaker 1: just Reynolds improving.
Speaker 3: The movie obviously shapes his kind of career with Deadpool
Speaker 3: because he has been that voice since then totally.
Speaker 1: Now I mentioned the Mark with a Mouth, which is
Speaker 1: Deadpool's nickname. Once Wade acquires his healing factor powers in
Speaker 1: this film, he has his mouth. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you would call it sown shut or really the skinny.
Speaker 2: Stapled or something like that sealed up.
Speaker 1: So he never gets to wisecrack at all, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't wear his costume, even though he does become ostensibly
Speaker 1: the final boss villain of this of this film. The
Speaker 1: post credits scene of the movie led some to believe
Speaker 1: that his inclusion was meant to lead to a spinoff.
Speaker 1: Does seem like that? Yeah, that never materialized. Meanwhile, Fox
Speaker 1: continued to hold a deadpool in development limbo, and that
Speaker 1: limbo became even more goopy and hard to escape after
Speaker 1: Reynolds's turn as Hal Jordan in twenty eleven's Green Lantern
Speaker 1: hit the sidewalk with a terrible and juicy.
Speaker 4: Thud, super juicy thud. And also, let's be real, we're already.
Speaker 3: In twenty and eleven here, so we're talking six years
Speaker 3: off the Reynolds first had his beginning with old Avier Rod,
Speaker 3: so uh yeah, time to make some fucking chimmy changas.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about actual development.
Speaker 3: After X Men Wolverine's successful opening, nobody talks about that.
Speaker 2: Is that people love people. People love over read the
Speaker 2: movie was bad, but people love.
Speaker 4: Over read plans for a Deadpol solo Let me.
Speaker 2: Just say one.
Speaker 1: I want to say one thing about X Men Origins Wolverine.
Speaker 1: I was super broke at the time that movie came out.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to see the movie, but I had
Speaker 1: no money, and so I did download a pirated cam
Speaker 1: of the movie, which is how I saw X Men
Speaker 1: Origins Wolverine. That's how I saw that movie for a
Speaker 1: illegally Turkish cam or something like that.
Speaker 3: Probably how David Benioff exactly how he wants to watch it. Definitely,
Speaker 3: So after the success of that movie, financial not critical,
Speaker 3: I will say plans for though I will say I
Speaker 3: watched that movie at least once a year.
Speaker 4: It's very entertaining. Plans for a.
Speaker 3: Deadpool solo movie were revisited in January twenty ten. Rhtt
Speaker 3: Reese and Paul Wernick, who had worked on Zombie Land,
Speaker 3: Very Good and gij Retaliation, were hired to work on
Speaker 3: a spin off that would feature more comics accurate version
Speaker 3: of the character. A version of the Ari script was leaked.
Speaker 4: That is true.
Speaker 3: It was a big deal, which the fan loves, and
Speaker 3: the studios then brought on director Tim Miller in twenty eleven,
Speaker 3: who had created some test footage with Reynolds. The studio
Speaker 3: was unimpressed with it, and after the success of Avengers,
Speaker 3: began exploring other options for dead Pool, including appearing in
Speaker 3: ensemble movies. But then, lo and behold, three years later,
Speaker 3: in one of the most auspicious leaks of all time,
Speaker 3: we still want speaked it.
Speaker 4: Who could have done this?
Speaker 3: Who could have done this? Says a man in a
Speaker 3: hot dog costume. The CGI clip was less than two
Speaker 3: minutes long, but featured what eventually became the opening of
Speaker 3: the twenty sixteen movie, including many of the same jokes
Speaker 3: and musical cues, and it was essentially like a very
Speaker 3: cool fight scene inside a car. He's chopping people's heads off,
Speaker 3: he's being quippy.
Speaker 4: You know. It's very Deadpool.
Speaker 3: While the studio had initially been hesitant on the project,
Speaker 3: the leaked footage received incredibly positive reaction, which Reynolds feels
Speaker 3: is exclusively the reason that the movie got made. Fox
Speaker 3: finally gives the go ahead for Deadpool movie to be
Speaker 3: released in twenty sixteen, and years ago the studio had
Speaker 3: very silly of them pushed for a PG thirteen version
Speaker 3: of the character.
Speaker 1: Since I get why our movies, particularly our movies that
Speaker 1: are genre movies, they don't usually make money. It's very
Speaker 1: uncommon for them for that to happen.
Speaker 3: The Joker was the first rated movie to make a
Speaker 3: billion dollars, you know, which in a superhero age you
Speaker 3: would think was not the case.
Speaker 4: PG thirteen. Also, you can get away with a fair amount.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in PG thirteen. We've seen some pretty scary PG
Speaker 3: thirteen movies. But after the test footage, which was very
Speaker 3: distinctly not PG thirteen twentieth Century Fox, that allowed the
Speaker 3: creative team more leniency, partly thanks to having a much
Speaker 3: smaller budget. Reynolds described the movie's fifty eight million dollar
Speaker 3: budget as the cocaine budget for most superhero movies.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of cocaine, right.
Speaker 1: I mean sixty sub sixty million dollars, even in what
Speaker 1: was this twenty twenty, twenty ten, twenty tens. That's really
Speaker 1: not a lot of money.
Speaker 4: No, it's not a lot of money at all.
Speaker 3: And he said the creative team felt less pressure from
Speaker 3: the studio make the movie at the price the way
Speaker 3: you want to make it. And as you know, the
Speaker 3: cocaine budget for X ray vision.
Speaker 4: Is extremely high.
Speaker 3: It's so big, Me and Jason are always doing those
Speaker 3: drugs and stuff, so you better listen to these ads
Speaker 3: so we can afford the illegal substances.
Speaker 1: And we're back from doing cocaine now. The smaller budget
Speaker 1: naturally forced changes. Early drafts of the script featured Garrison
Speaker 1: Kane aka Kane however you know his cybernetic arms and
Speaker 1: don't we love a cybernetic arm? As a dead Pool
Speaker 1: mentions in Deadpool too, don't we love a bionic arm?
Speaker 1: That was too much for the CGI budget. Ajax was
Speaker 1: originally meant to be working for doctor Emerus Kilbrew and
Speaker 1: however they just basically had to simplify the story and
Speaker 1: start reaching kind of deeper into the character bin for
Speaker 1: cheaper to produce characters. There was pressure to include Cable
Speaker 1: in the movie, seeing as Deadpool has you know, has
Speaker 1: a long and storied association with Cable, but ultimately the
Speaker 1: writers felt it was better to let Deadpool stand on
Speaker 1: his own two scarred, gnarled feet and push Cable to
Speaker 1: a later sequel. The movie opened Friday February twelve, Bound
Speaker 1: Times Day Weekend twenty sixteen and was a massive, like
Speaker 1: you can't overstate it massive massive success. More on this
Speaker 1: in our quick hitting segment at the end of the episode.
Speaker 1: But it was a huge success, going on to earn
Speaker 1: some seven hundred and eighty two million dollars and change
Speaker 1: at the box office, massive return for an rated film.
Speaker 1: Post credit scene featured Deadpool doing his best first Bueller
Speaker 1: impression and teasing the audience that he'd be back and
Speaker 1: that the next movie would feature that's right, son of
Speaker 1: Cyclops himself and Gene Cable Cable, our good friend Cable.
Speaker 1: Two months after the release of Deadpool, it was confirmed
Speaker 1: that the writer's recent Paul Wernick, director Tim Miller, and
Speaker 1: star Ryan Reynolds would return for the sequel Listen you Get,
Speaker 1: You get a crew that creates a hit movie, just
Speaker 1: run it back. Reynolds signed a new contract giving him
Speaker 1: more creative control, including a say in casting. In October
Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen, director Tim Miller left the film amid
Speaker 1: creative differences with Ryan Reynolds. Miller wanted to push for
Speaker 1: the sequel to be more stylized, while Reynolds was more
Speaker 1: focused on the R rated humor. I think we could
Speaker 1: say that Reynolds, at this point, after over ten years
Speaker 1: of development, road in his relationship with Deadpool. I think
Speaker 1: he understands the tone of that character and how to
Speaker 1: translate that to the feature.
Speaker 2: Film, and he succeeded.
Speaker 1: Additionally, Miller was supposed toly wanted Kyle Chandler from Friday
Speaker 1: Lights to play Cable, but Reynolds did not good casting.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm interested, but a big enough star.
Speaker 1: Name agreed in staid, we get a grimacing Josh Brolin
Speaker 1: who's already fanos in the FCA.
Speaker 4: He's just gone wild. But who cas But who cares?
Speaker 1: And also at this time we're talking about two different companies,
Speaker 1: Fox and Marvel Studios. In the aftermath, Tim Miller shared
Speaker 1: his ideas for The Sea, featuring a progression of Vanessa
Speaker 1: storyline where she becomes the iconic, well the iconic in
Speaker 1: terms of Dead Cole comic character Copycat, also Wade's girlfriend
Speaker 1: in the comics. It also featured a fight between Juggernaut
Speaker 1: and the Thing whoa the Thing in the film's third act.
Speaker 1: A month after Miller left, director David Leach signed on
Speaker 1: to direct the sequel. Reynolds, Rhyes Wernick split the scenes
Speaker 1: into three parts, and each one wrote one part before
Speaker 1: passing the round to the others. There was a strong
Speaker 1: desire to include X Force in this and that influenced
Speaker 1: the film's theme.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: By twenty seventeen, the film was still looking to cast
Speaker 1: Deadpool's two major allies, Michael Shannon, David Harbor, Pierce brasn
Speaker 1: and all were believed to be in consideration. Eventually was
Speaker 1: announced that Zazi Beats was cast as Domino. This is
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, and following a month, it was announced
Speaker 1: that Josh Brolin had beat out the previously aforementioned middle
Speaker 1: aged actors for the role as Cable, and it was
Speaker 1: rumored that Fox hoped to use the introduction of Cable
Speaker 1: and Domino to spin off an X Force movie. However,
Speaker 1: this has never materialized.
Speaker 3: Interesting Okay, so the filming was not without controversy. The
Speaker 3: second movie began shooting in June twenty seventeen in Canada
Speaker 3: under the working title Love Machine. On August fourteenth, so
Speaker 3: soon after they began shooting, stunt woman Joy Harris died
Speaker 3: in a motorcycle accident performing a stunt for the movie.
Speaker 3: Joy had never done stunt work before and was not
Speaker 3: wearing a helmet because she had joined production only a
Speaker 3: week before and they had not had time to fit
Speaker 3: a helmet under the Domino wig for the scene. Many
Speaker 3: criticized the production for using Harris instead of a veteran
Speaker 3: stunt performer, arguing her racing experience did not qualify her
Speaker 3: as an able performer for the stunt. Productions shut down
Speaker 3: for two days immediately after the incident, and reports came
Speaker 3: out that the film's crew were exhausted and working incredibly
Speaker 3: long days, with reports that some days had increased filming
Speaker 3: to over fifteen hours a day.
Speaker 1: So this is obviously terrible, and I think it's made
Speaker 1: even more complicated by the fact that there was a
Speaker 1: veteran stunt performer who had done these kinds of stunts,
Speaker 1: ready and willing to do it. But part of the
Speaker 1: reasoning for going with Joy was sazy beats is black.
Speaker 1: The stunt performer, it's black, and unfortunately it has resulted
Speaker 1: in this person passing. The stunt community was really critical
Speaker 1: of this. The fifteen hour days thing is like, that's
Speaker 1: every movie.
Speaker 2: They do feel it.
Speaker 4: Is, Well, that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 3: That I think is really interesting is around the same
Speaker 3: time as this, there was like a crash when people
Speaker 3: were being taken home from the set of Riverdale or something,
Speaker 3: and I think one of the drivers ended up being injured.
Speaker 3: And I think that these long hours and this kind
Speaker 3: of exhaustion and people not sleeping properly, and they're not
Speaker 3: being safe ways for people to get to and from
Speaker 3: set or be on set. This is an ongoing problem
Speaker 3: in big budget movies, in indie movies, as we saw
Speaker 3: with the Russ shooting with you know that Alec Baldwin
Speaker 3: was recently the trial was dismissed about, but like that
Speaker 3: was another example of it. Sadly, this is not an
Speaker 3: industry that always values the people who are part of
Speaker 3: making the movies possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, even fifteen hour days, it's not
Speaker 1: uncommon in TV and movies.
Speaker 4: That's pretty much part of the course.
Speaker 2: It's not a judgment, that's just what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that wasn't the only controversy that beset the movie either.
Speaker 3: In late twenty seventeen, sexual misconduct allegations against TJ. Miller surface,
Speaker 3: and you might be like, well, what's he got to
Speaker 3: do with it? He was actually in the first movie
Speaker 3: as his like Deadpool's like annoying friend. He's in Ish
Speaker 3: the second one, he's in ish the second one, the
Speaker 3: allegations were particularly horrendous, and some began calling for his
Speaker 3: removal from the film. In April of twenty eighteen, Miller
Speaker 3: was arrested for calling in a fake bomb threat on.
Speaker 4: An Amtrak train.
Speaker 3: You know, we do it starts getting easier, like okay,
Speaker 3: my guy. Witnesses on the train claimed he was heavily
Speaker 3: intoxicated and had heated exchanges with a woman in the
Speaker 3: first class car with him. He was then removed from
Speaker 3: the train for being inebriated, but he was not removed
Speaker 3: from the film, at least not fully. I can imagine
Speaker 3: that there was a cut with more. Yeah, so it
Speaker 3: was not an easy shoot, and reshoots are very expensive.
Speaker 3: So listen to these ad breaks so that we can
Speaker 3: cut around the stuff that's not supposed to be in
Speaker 3: the poplar.
Speaker 2: And we're back.
Speaker 1: Deadpool two was released May eighteen, twenty eighteen, and would
Speaker 1: go on to grow some worldwide total of seven hundred
Speaker 1: eight five point eight so just under seven and eighty
Speaker 1: six Newllion dollars on a budget of one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten million, not quite the ratio of the first movie,
Speaker 1: but still, like inclu imreredibly impressive. Fandago and Regal Cinemas
Speaker 1: revealed that the movie had the most pre sale tickets
Speaker 1: they had ever had ever for an R rated film
Speaker 1: ever in history. Ever, it also set the record for
Speaker 1: the widest rated release ever. Fox hinted at a new
Speaker 1: Deadpool movie, which wound up being titled Once Upon a Deadpool.
Speaker 1: The movie was announced as a PG thirteen version of
Speaker 1: Deadpool two and would be released in theaters from Decever
Speaker 1: twelfth and twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: Reynolds only agreed to support.
Speaker 1: A PG thirteen version of the movie if portion of
Speaker 1: the profits were donated to charity, specifically a cancer charity.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about R rated movies and why studios
Speaker 1: don't necessarily like them, is because it's not because the
Speaker 1: kids can't go. The kids end up going. What they
Speaker 1: do is they buy a ticket to a PG thirteen
Speaker 1: movie and then they sneak today go and some other
Speaker 1: movie ends up getting that money, and so the release
Speaker 1: of a PG thirteen version is really just a way
Speaker 1: for them to seize back the profits which were going
Speaker 1: into whatever other PG or PG thirteen movie was in
Speaker 1: the theaters at that time.
Speaker 3: I will say I do think they came up with
Speaker 3: a fun idea, which is they did like a Princess
Speaker 3: Bride esque reimagining of the movie.
Speaker 4: But yes, so the dollar of every.
Speaker 3: Ticket sale went to the cancer charity campaign rebranded as
Speaker 3: Fudge Cancer in the movie.
Speaker 4: Very funny of you.
Speaker 3: So development began on a third Deadpool movie, an actual
Speaker 3: separate Deadpool movie, not just a recut PG thirteen version, as.
Speaker 4: Well as a separate X Force project.
Speaker 3: However, after twenty first Century Fox was purchased by Disney
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, a large part of which may or
Speaker 3: may not have been to get back those Fantastic Four
Speaker 3: rights that they had sold to Fox many many years ago,
Speaker 3: all development on future X Men movies was put on hold,
Speaker 3: including Deapol three and Force. Reynolds met with Kevin Faiy
Speaker 3: to discuss integrating Depport into the Marvel Cinematic universe, where
Speaker 3: he was apparently told he could not use Wolverine.
Speaker 4: Very interesting.
Speaker 3: After working with director Sean Levy on Free Guy and
Speaker 3: the Adam Project, Levy was hired to direct the next
Speaker 3: Stepple movie. Also I'd just say Free Guy very fun
Speaker 3: movie movie. It has lots of Marvel Easter eggs thanks
Speaker 3: to the fact that it was a twentieth century movie
Speaker 3: that got moved to Disney, So if you like this
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, you'll probably enjoy it. Levy, Reynolds, Reese, Wernick,
Speaker 3: and zeb Wells oh Hi zeb Wells worked on a
Speaker 3: number of script ideas but began to hit a block.
Speaker 3: Marvel and the writers all struggled to find that a
Speaker 3: story idea that worked, and Levy and Reynolds considered telling
Speaker 3: Figy they thought the project should not continue at the
Speaker 3: time dunt dund dund. But in August twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: Ryan Reynolds was preparing to meet with Figy to discuss
Speaker 3: their pole's future when Hugh Jackman reached out to him
Speaker 3: and expressed a desire to reprise his role as Wolverine
Speaker 3: in the film. Allegedly, he said, I'll probably have more
Speaker 3: fun on that movie than anything I've ever done. Figi
Speaker 3: initially advised Jackman not to return, as he felt the
Speaker 3: characters arc ended so well in Logan True. However, he
Speaker 3: was convinced when it was suggested that Jackman would portray
Speaker 3: a new version of Wolverine, tying into the Marvel multiversal
Speaker 3: storytelling arc. Logan director James Mangold expressed his enthusiasm about
Speaker 3: the story idea, and pre production began less than two
Speaker 3: months after Hugh Jackman joined the project. Fans are especially
Speaker 3: excited about the introduction of a more comically accurate costumes
Speaker 3: for both main characters, with a brighter red and large
Speaker 3: black eye circles for Deadpool and the classic yellow and
Speaker 3: blue suit for Wolverine, which we had all been waiting for.
Speaker 4: Deadpool. Wolverine opens July twenty sixth. Jason, do you have
Speaker 4: some Deadpool facts for us?
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Deadpool Facts. We like to end
Speaker 1: every show with a series of quick hitting segments. In
Speaker 1: today's quick silver the fastest Deadpool fact race known to
Speaker 1: the human race, and here it is Deadpool Facts, Deadpool
Speaker 1: Fact number one. Deadpool was Tim Miller's directorial debut. Miller
Speaker 1: co founded Blur Studios in nineteen ninety three of VFX Company.
Speaker 2: For landing Deadpool.
Speaker 1: Miller worked on the title sequences through Blur to David
Speaker 1: Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Alan Taylor's
Speaker 1: Magnum Opus for the Dark World. You should say that's
Speaker 1: why Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds were able to create
Speaker 1: this really wonderful stunt sequence with Reynolds. Because this was
Speaker 1: Miller's background in VFX. I wonder who could have leaked
Speaker 1: the footage.
Speaker 2: Deadpool.
Speaker 1: As noted, the first movie massive financial success, earning over
Speaker 1: seven hundred and three million on a budget of less
Speaker 1: than sixty. Deadpool jokes in the first Deadpool film that
Speaker 1: the X characters who appear in the film Classus and
Speaker 1: the super super weird.
Speaker 2: And rarely rarely appearing.
Speaker 3: Teenage Warhead lie after one page and the but I
Speaker 3: loved this version that they created in the still one
Speaker 3: of my favorite.
Speaker 4: Marvel movie characters of all time.
Speaker 1: So thank you, right, so yeah, Deadpool jokes that this
Speaker 1: was all that they could afford. Deadpool the original movie
Speaker 1: was the highest grossing R rated film ever.
Speaker 2: For a little while. For a little while.
Speaker 1: It is currently the fourth highest grossing rated film behind
Speaker 1: One the Joker number one, number two, op Oppenheimer number.
Speaker 2: Three, Deadpool number two.
Speaker 1: Although again, as stated, seven hundred and three on a
Speaker 1: budget of sixty, I think is to me is better
Speaker 1: than a budget of one hundred and ten for Deadpool two,
Speaker 1: and this whatever it was, they made almost somewhat south
Speaker 1: of a billion. So do with that information of what
Speaker 1: you will. Much has been written about Deadpool being Ryan
Speaker 1: reynolds passion project. Less talked about is how Ryan, because
Speaker 1: of that passion, paid for writers Reese and Paul Wernick
Speaker 1: to be on set after.
Speaker 2: Fox declined to.
Speaker 1: Remunerate them for for appearing on set to do rewrites
Speaker 1: and punch up jokes, et cetera.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: You know, they were touchy about a budget of less
Speaker 1: than sixty and they were like, listen, we're pinching pennies everywhere.
Speaker 1: We're having to put negasonic teenage work somewhere, so we
Speaker 1: can't pay for these guys to be on film. And
Speaker 1: and so Ryan Reynolds paid for them to appear, which
Speaker 1: is wonderful. Love.
Speaker 2: How about some Deadpool number two facts?
Speaker 1: Yes, ex Corporation, the owner of the orphanage and re
Speaker 1: education center that housed Russell child mutant. Russell of Deadpool
Speaker 1: is a reference to the long lived geneticist and all
Speaker 1: around bad guy Nathan Essex aka mister Sinister. The one
Speaker 1: eyed willing joke then Deadpool makes is a reference to
Speaker 1: the legendary pirate captain and On Detra of the movie
Speaker 1: The Goonies, which featured that movie a young Josh Brolin
Speaker 1: riding a BMX bike Love Young, BMX Wonderful. Deadpool was
Speaker 1: created by artist Rob Leifeld and writer editor Fabian the Chenz. Lifefield,
Speaker 1: by the early nineties had become a major star at
Speaker 1: just nineteen eight years of age X Force launch in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one by Lifefeld and Chins have become a
Speaker 1: huge hit off of life Feld, spurgeoning popularity. The original
Speaker 1: team lineup featured Boom Boom, Cable, Canniball, Domino Ferrell, Shatterstar
Speaker 1: and Warpath and as an example of just how pop
Speaker 1: cultural zeitgeisty Rob Leifeld was, Here's a Lee's five oh
Speaker 1: one jeans commercial directed by Spike Lee featuring Rob Leifeld,
Speaker 1: Play It, Dynasty Fixen Joan Collins On the next line,
Speaker 1: I saw that you can make a living at it.
Speaker 3: You'll hear no.
Speaker 2: Complaints and you created x forts.
Speaker 1: Where does this drawing on?
Speaker 2: This is the Spike man?
Speaker 3: What's this right now?
Speaker 4: This is the camera on top of your head that
Speaker 4: we record the wrong doings of ever.
Speaker 2: So, Rob, have you had any formal art training, No,
Speaker 2: just a lot of imagination.
Speaker 1: I think, Wait, so, so I say it and then
Speaker 1: look down or just open it and say it.
Speaker 2: The fly button. How crazy that is, truly nuts.
Speaker 4: Just one of the wildest things of all time.
Speaker 3: I think about it a lot, I watch it a lot,
Speaker 3: I talk about it a lot.
Speaker 4: If you another great thing to do, go and watch the.
Speaker 3: Trailers so you can see the visuals, so you can
Speaker 3: see little Rob Liefeld at the center of the trailer. Also,
Speaker 3: go and just search like Rob Liefeld nineties comic bookshop
Speaker 3: or Jim Lee nineties comic book shop.
Speaker 4: Like they would have.
Speaker 3: News crews from local news going to signings. These guys
Speaker 3: did because there were like hundreds of people showing up
Speaker 3: for these signings. Lest we forget after all of this,
Speaker 3: when Jim Ley, you know the reason that they left
Speaker 3: and they went to Image Comics, that X Men number
Speaker 3: one issue by Jim Ly still the biggest selling comic
Speaker 3: of all time, eight million pre sales.
Speaker 2: Based its truly crazy selling.
Speaker 4: GI I know.
Speaker 2: It's a different level.
Speaker 4: It's like brand right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to have a comic book creator in a national
Speaker 1: ad campaign for a major clothing brand and the commercial
Speaker 1: director by Spike Lee would have to mention, by the way,
Speaker 1: the Spike Man that that lifelp is drawing on his
Speaker 1: little pad. They're no feat on that sketch of the character.
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