The ending of this summer’s billion-dollar Marvel installment could have looked slightly different, if hadn’t been married to . The film, which stars Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as the respective super heroes (and in which Lively appears briefly as Lady Deadpool), ended with Deadpool and Wolverine’s fate called into question after they destroyed the time ripper and disappeared from the screen. For a moment, while Matthew MacFadyen’s Paradox delivers one more evil speech, audiences can’t be sure the heroes have made it out alive.
“Credit where credit is due. It used to be that there was no suspense, that the power room blew up, and our heroes had survived,” director Shawn Levy says on the director’s commentary release of the film, reported by . “It was Blake Lively who said to us, ‘You know, I’ve been with you this whole movie.
I want to sit in the fear that they’re lost. Let me be in that place of suspense so the triumph of their survival is more emotional and visceral.'” Levy added, “It really opened up a new way of thinking about this part of the movie and it’s why we did this reshoot.
.. and, here, the payoff is so much more satisfying.
” Elsewhere in the commentary, Reynolds — who also served as a producer for the record-breaking film — revealed that the team only did a day-and-a-half of reshoots. “These kinds of movies typically involve weeks of reshoots. But this speech that Matthew has is one of the pieces that we reshot.
And he is mir.
