Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine . Logan co-writer Michael Green has admitted to being surprised by Deadpool & Wolverine's opening scene..
. but in a good way. Green, who co-wrote the Wolverine trilogy-capper with James Mangold and Scott Frank, recently visited the IGN office to talk about Blue Eye Samurai.
But while there, he also sat down with IGN to share his reaction to the intro of Deadpool & Wolverine, in which Ryan Reynolds' suited-up antihero digs up the rotting corpse of Hugh Jackman's Logan from the 2017 movie and uses his adamantium skeleton (claws included) to kill an entire squad of TVA (Time Variance Authority) officers. "People had warned me ahead of time, 'Uh, I don't know how you're gonna feel about the opening [of Deadpool & Wolverine]'," he recalled. "I'm like, 'I think I know what's gonna happen.
' And I did not know! I didn't know they were gonna go that far. "You weren't meant to take seriously that they were, like, digging him up, and that it was really him," he remarked. "It felt less like they were trying to change the ending of Logan as they were contending with not feeling that they wanted to make a movie as good as they felt Logan was, which is a huge compliment! I felt like it was nothing but complimentary.
" Deadpool & Wolverine is packed with more Easter eggs, cameos, and references than you can shake a Time Stick at, but Green says he is grateful for one omission. "That movie's such a good time. I mean, when.