‘I Didn’t Know They Were Gonna Go That Far’: Logan Writer Reacts To Hilarious Way Deadpool And Wolverine Poked Fun At The Hugh Jackman Movie’s Ending

Warning: SPOILERS for Deadpool & Wolverine are ahead! When Logan was released in 2017, it was supposed to be Hugh Jackman ’s final appearance as Wolverine. Then the actor changed his mind and decided to don the adamantium claws gain for Deadpool & Wolverine , the latest of the Marvel movies in order to watch. However, in order to preserve Logan ’s impact, Jackman instead playing a Wolverine from a different universe, and his original Wolverine stayed dead.

However, the third Deadpool movie still found a hilarious way to poke fun at Logan ’s ending , and Michael Green, who co-wrote the script with director James Mangold and Scott Frank, has shared how he reacted to the sequence. Let’s do a quick recap first. Upon learning that the death of Earth-10005’s Wolverine, i.

e. the one who perished in Logan , has resulted in that universe dying, a process that Time Variance Authority agent Paradox intended to speed up, Ryan Reynolds ’ Wade Wilson used a TemPad to travel to Wolverine’s grave in North Dakota. Wade believed that he merely needed to get Wolverine’s healing factor going again so he could be resurrected, but he realized that couldn’t happen upon finding the buried adamantium skeleton.

When TVA agents surrounded Wade at the gravesite, he proceeded to kill them all using different parts of the skeleton, all while dancing to NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye.” Yeah, that’s a lot to take in, and Michael Green informed IGN that although he’d received a vague tipoff.