Where to watch Deadpool 2 (2018)

Trivia & production notes

• Director Tim Miller departed the project over creative differences with Ryan Reynolds, including disagreements about the film's tone, Reynolds' expanded creative control, and casting choices for Cable.
• Ryan Reynolds negotiated a new contract that granted him casting approval and other creative controls over the sequel.
• 20th Century Fox backed Reynolds over Miller, who had made his directorial debut with the first Deadpool film.
• David Leitch was hired to replace Miller as director, with Reynolds praising Leitch's ability to make movies on tight budgets appear far more expensive than they actually cost.
• Tim Miller had planned to include a fight scene between Juggernaut and the Thing, with the studio having already approved the Fantastic Four character crossover before his departure.
• The screenplay was written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Ryan Reynolds, who split the film's scenes between them before passing them around for rewrites.
• The writers wanted Deadpool to spend roughly half the film unmasked to explore emotional scenes, though Reynolds found the makeup required uncomfortable and time-consuming.
• An early script idea involved Deadpool being a father five years after the first film, but the writers abandoned it to instead explore his desire to have a child but inability to do so.
• Director David Leitch pushed to include Cable's backstory elements like the Techno-Organic Virus and his daughter Hope after the writers initially chose to minimize Cable's background as too convoluted.
• A joke directly acknowledging Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox was filmed but removed by Fox before release, which Reynolds called a wise decision.

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