While Ryan Reynolds is currently awaiting the release of his upcoming film Deadpool and Wolverine, a sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018), he recently recalled the decade-long wait for the first Deadpool to get made. In a recent interaction, Ryan shared how he gave up his fee to bring the film to the screen. He also funded the film’s writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, with the “little salary” he had left so they could be on set and create a writers’ room to ensure that the film’s sarcastic comedic writing came through.
Speaking to The New York Times, the actor said, “No part of me was thinking when Deadpool was finally greenlit that this would be a success. I even let go of getting paid to do the movie just to put it back on the screen: They wouldn’t allow my co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on set, so I took the little salary I had left and paid them to be on set with me so we could form a de facto writers room.”
Ryan also explained the reason behind Deadpool’s success and how ‘too much money’ always hampers creativity. “It was a lesson in a couple of senses. I think one of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money, and that movie had neither time nor money. It really fostered focusing on character over spectacle, which is a little harder to execute in a comic-book movie. I was just so invested in every micro-detail of it and I hadn’t felt like that in a long, long time. I remembered wanting to feel that more — not just on Deadpool, but on anything,” he said.
The film Deadpool and Wolverine, directed by Shawn Levy, features a screenplay penned by Levy along with Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells. Reynolds and Hugh Jackman headline the cast as Deadpool and Wolverine, joined by Emma Corrin and Matthew Macfadyen. Previously, Hugh Jackman expressed he believed he had retired from the superhero role after Wolverine’s demise in 2017’s Logan. However, he decided to return to the character for Ryan Reynolds’ film.
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