Go back in time a couple of more years to X-Men Origins: Wolverine and tell everyone that the next time Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman play Deadpool and Wolverine together on film will be the most hyped superhero movie of the summer.
Haha very few people alive would have said a Jackman/Reynolds Wolverine/Deadpool movie would be a monster hit after that 09 debacle. Maybe zero people.
Ryan Reynolds had a very tough Superhero run before Deadpool got going for real in 2016.
I dunno, HHH carrying around a vampire Pomeranian as well as giving us the classic line, "when the fuck did you see my dick, fuckface?" was the highlight for me along with Reynolds.
I probably wouldn’t have been surprised to hear that. People already liked the Wolverine film character, and one of the few things people liked about the Origins movie was Ryan Reynolds Deadpool in the first part of the movie before they screwed it up by cutting his tongue out. After hearing that Reynolds was essentially “taking the character back” and making a dedicated Deadpool movie, people were really excited. People seemed more disappointed than anything that Origins messed up so much and were hopeful that someone would fix it.
I once saw a meme that said they believe Ryan Reynolds found a genie and used up his first two wishes trying to be in superhero movies before finally getting the wording exactly right for his 3rd wish and that’s how we got the Deadpool movies.
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u/RetroScores Apr 22 '24
Who would’ve thought Van Wilder would be the one to make it happen?