Ryan Reynolds transformed Deadpool from a character that only comics fans liked to an international pop culture icon. He accomplished this partly through the amazing songs in the Deadpool movies . During an interview, the director of Deadpool 2 explained why Reynolds asked Celine Dion to record a new song for the Deadpool series.
Ryan Reynolds wanted a Celine Dion-style song for ‘Deadpool 2’ During a 2018 interview with Entertainment Weekly , Deadpool director David Leitch discussed why Dion became part of the pop culture-referencing world of Deadpool. Initially, he wanted to find a power ballad for Deadpool 2 in the vein of Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” from Top Gun or Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic . While power ballads aren’t too prevalent today, Hollywood movies from the 1980s and 1990s often had hugely successful power ballads on their soundtracks that helped promote the films.
Leitch found a song called “Ashes” that felt right for Deadpool 2 and then he sought a singer with the chops to perform it. “I brought it to Ryan Reynolds and we started to riff on it,” the director said. “And he’s like, ‘You know who we should get? We should approach Celine.
She’s an incredible singer, she’s amazing, but she’s also someone who works in the sort of subversive Deadpool universe.'” Leitch said that Reynolds’ idea was similar to other behind-the-scenes Deadpool moments. “It’s a lot of how things work on Deadpool: One of us has.