A choir sings Madonnas Like a Prayer.
Deadpool attempts to destroy the Time Ripper but cant do it himself.
Its a powerful moment and thebig finale toDeadpool & Wolverinebut the sequence took a long time to get there.
Deadpool and Wolverine watch footage with director Shawn Levy.Marvel Studios
Its a throwback to these 80s action movies and were just going to indulge in it.
And this song allows us to laugh.
Reid pitched it to the powers that be and got a surprising response.
© Marvel Studios
Youre going to take this.
Were going to do Madonna.
Were going to do this and this and this.
Dafne Kean inDeadpool & Wolverine– Marvel Studios
Okay, do that too.
I want to see that too.
And that is just the creative partners they are.
And so it went down that road, Reid continued.
It was undeniably fun.
The VFX department was coming in and watching it.
People were hearing it pumped down the hall.
Shawn was into it.
We played the movie for Ryan and that scene just… Ive never been more disappointed in myself.
It was like just this music video that had nothing to it.
It was building to this big moment and it just completely fell flat.
What are we doing and what are the stakes and how are we going to show those stakes?'
We built this really beautiful moment with Deadpool, Reid said.
We were like, Okay, yeah, this does feel like it wants more.'
The problem though is the movie isnt Deadpool 3.
This has to be a moment about these two guys.
We have to build it equally and it has to feel like their journey is paying off.
Wolverine was harder because you cant pull into the lastLoganmovie, Reid said.
You cant pull into those films because its not supposed to be him.
Where would the footage come from?
The answer was right in front of them.
I started to pull those together and put images over it.
And that was in the movie, but we got rid of it for timing.
We trimmed that as well.
We wanted to leave that on a comma versus a period.
We started to find moments that felt like they were beyond what the audience had seen.
Mission accomplished.Deadpool & Wolverineis now in theaters.
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