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While Deadpool & Wolverine might seem like a no-brainer of a title, Ryan Reynolds said that fate actually had to intervene in order for that name to come to be.
According to Ryan Reynolds — who, for the record, is approaching The Rock’s territory of “Is this person a human being or a sentient business,” so what he says on talk shows should be taken with a grain of salt — the third entry in the Deadpool franchise was set to be titled Deadpool & Friend until a leak the day before the release of the first trailer changed those plans.
“This is genuine, I’ve never told this story anywhere,” Reynolds began while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live alongside co-star and real-life best friend Hugh Jackman.
“The movie was originally called Deadpool & Friend. I am actually not joking. On the eve of the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl is where we first launched the trailer for Deadpool & — not Friend, but Wolverine — it leaked because of the son of the b—— on the internet. The title leaked. We looked at it and listened, and they f—— hated that title. We were not feeling so good about that anymore.”
Another gag Reynolds revealed they considered was making a fake movie called Alpha Cop that would reveal itself to be Deadpool & Wolverine only after the movie had started.
“10 people in America would go to see this movie on opening weekend, and five minutes into the movie the Marvel logo would flip up and it would actually be Deadpool & Wolverine,” he said on Hot Ones.
Reynolds and Jackman stars in Deadpool & Wolverine alongside Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew Macfadyen, Aaron Stanford, Brianna Hildebrand, Lewis Tan, Tyler Mane, and more. The film also reportedly has tons of cameos from the Fox era of Marvel movies from which Reynolds’ Deadpool and Jackman’s Wolverine originated.
Deadpool & Wolverine is the only Marvel Cinematic Universe film that’s being released in 2024. Next up for the franchise will be the Disney+ series Agatha All Along, which premieres in September.