If you have seen the new Deadpool & Wolverine movie, you know that there are a lot of different Deadpool and Wolverine variants. A lot of them have slight differences in their costumes, which may not seem like that big of a deal, but one of the costumes cost $100,000?! Yeah, you read that right.
One of the film’s editors, Dean Zimmerman, said in an interview that Wolverine’s brown, tan, and yellow suit in the scene where he is facing the Hulk cost $100,000 to make. This is even crazier when you think about how short of a scene this is in the film. It is only around 11 seconds long, with the suit not being visible for over half of that time.
Due to large costs like the aforementioned suit, the appearance of more Wolverine variants was out of the question economically. Zimmerman also mentioned there were ideas for many other variants given to them by a storyboard artist who was also a big comic book fan. But there were “time and budget issues you have to deal with.”
Zimmerman refers to the expensive suit as being based on Wolverine’s costume, which comic book artist John Byrne created during his run on the X-Men. Byrne worked on X-Men story arcs such as “Days of Future Past” or the “Dark Phoenix Saga.” Byrne is widely considered to have popularized Wolverine’s character.
Platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV digitally released Deadpool & Wolverine on Oct. 1. The studio has slated the film’s physical release for Oct. 22. The film will come with featurettes like the director’s commentary and gag reels. Physical releases will be in 4K UHD Blu-ray and come in two special edition Steelbooks.