To that end, Deadpool and Weasel held tryouts for mutants as potential members for their rescue team. It was all done with the knowledge it wouldn't be in the movie.Feeling guilty over abandoning young mutant Russell Collins in the Ice Box, after having experienced a vision of his late fianceé, Deadpool decided to recruit help in order to rescue the boy, especially due to the looming threat of the time traveler Cable plotting to assassinate the child.
"What the actors were very gracious about doing was shooting footage they knew was not actually going to be in the so we could trick people into thinking they're in the movie longer than they actually were," said Reese, speaking in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "If you watch trailers and commercials, you'll watch Bedlam and Shatterstar out on the street kicking people's ass. The production even worked to film scenes for the movie's promotional materials that they knew would never make it to a final cut, all for the purpose of further luring audiences in for the team-up fake-out. But Ryan will call you and talk you through.' And he did, and it was really exciting what he said." "And they were like, 'Nope, you can't have those. "I remember talking to my agents and being like, 'Could I, yeah, maybe like a character breakdown - as they call it in the business - or maybe some sides?'" said Delaney. Rob Delaney, who played the gung-ho-but-useless (and also deceased) X-Force member Peter, was also kept in the dark about many aspects of his role, despite the fact that he's not playing a character from the comic books at all. The actors who played the X-Force members were unable to see much, if any information about the parts they were being courted for during the filmmaking process, and discouraged from sharing what info they did learn with friends, loved ones, or even business agents - people you'd think would need to be kept in the loop about this sort of thing. "It's like working in the CIA sometimes," Wernick said.
They were also frequently full of redacted information, and all turned in and shredded at the end of every day. In many instances, not even the crew of the movie knew exactly what they were shooting at any given moment, with exact details being kept on a strict need-to-know basis.Īccording to Wernick, many of the film's sides - or on-set script page excerpts - came in the color red, making them harder to photocopy. "Everybody's a mark."Īs revealed in the special features for Deadpool 2's home media release, the lengths the filmmakers went to in order to keep X-Force's fate top-secret are dramatic, with the writers' creative intentions being protected in every way possible. "Nothing is too precious," said Morena Baccarin, whose own Vanessa character was similarly sent to an early grave in the opening minutes of the movie. Let's take this back and let's put some fun into this thing." You're like, 'wait a minute, stop stop stop.
"You know what I mean? It was like, it's so self-important. "When you look at the whole superhero genre in itself, it kind of got a little pretentious," Crews said. This was no accident - it took a whole lot of work to keep that sequence a surprise, and the bewildered reactions the movie earned from audiences everywhere is actually the entire reason the movie's creative team set out to do it.
The sequence in which most of the members of Deadpool's new team all die comically during a parachute jump just minutes after being introduced is one of the funniest things to happen in all of Deadpool 2 - and a lot of that has to do with how totally unexpected it was. One of the most exciting aspects of the lead-up to the release of Deadpool 2 was the arrival of the comic book superhero team X-Force, a harder-edged and more militant take on good guy mutant alliances than the slightly more wholesome X-Men.įans speculated on what Terry Crews' Bedlam, Lewis Tan's Shatterstar, and Bill Skarsgård's Zeitgeist would bring to the fight in the Deadpool sequel, and where things might all be ultimately going with the X-Force team-up movie, which is in the works from director Drew Godard. The possibilities seemed endless - and then everybody died.