Deadpool & Wolverine went through quite a few iterations before getting approved.
Speaking to Empire, Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Feige talked about the long process of getting Deadpool & Wolverine‘s story right and the many rejected pitches for the MCU movie. Check out the full quote below:
“Reynolds: [A] Rashomon story about Wolverine and Deadpool and something that they got into together, but told from three completely different perspectives. It was a way to make a large-scale movie in a very small way.
Feige: The truth is, I wasn’t even sure how to incorporate Deadpool yet. I was very much thinking about how to bring mutants and the X-Men into [the MCU], and I thought it needed to be more than just playing the hits. But the truth is, Ryan is an idea machine. So he may have pitched that to me, but he also pitched 25 other thoughts and ideas.
Reynolds: I went back to the drawing board, and I wrote up about 18 different treatments. Some of them almost like a Sundance film, a budget of under $10 million, sort of using the IP in a way that they previously hadn’t used, and I pitched bigger movies, and I pitched things in-between.”
Source: Empire
