29 Facts About Deadpool 2

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Deadpool 2 is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Deadpool.

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Plans for a sequel to Deadpool 2 began before the original film's release, and were confirmed in February 2016.

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When Deadpool 2 fails to placate Russell, Cable shoots at the young mutant.

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Now when Deadpool 2 takes the bullet for Russell, it is stopped by the token and both survive, while Russell still has his change of heart.

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Deadpool 2 uses it to save the lives of Vanessa and X-Force member Peter, and kills both the X-Men Origins: Wolverine version of Deadpool and Ryan Reynolds after he finishes reading the screenplay for Green Lantern.

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Deadpool 2 then contemplates killing an infant Adolf Hitler, but can't bring himself to do it.

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Deadpool 2 explained that Colossus would continue to try make Deadpool a better person and potential X-Men after doing so in the first film.

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Cable's inclusion in the potential sequel was confirmed by the character Deadpool 2 while breaking the fourth wall in the post-credit scene of the first film.

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9.

Deadpool 2 began work developing the script with the writers, while Reynolds had signed a new contract granting him "casting approval and other creative controls".

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10.

Deadpool 2 is set "more or less" when the first film ends, and focuses on "an existential crisis and a deeply personal cause" for Deadpool.

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An early idea was to have the film begin five years after the first and explore Deadpool 2 being a father, but the writers quickly decided that this was "never, ever going to work" and reworked the idea to explore the character wanting to have a child but being unable to.

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The film features contradictory connections to the various films of the franchise, which Leitch acknowledged as confusing but said that the issue had not really been discussed during development since the Deadpool 2 films are considered their own "entity" in a way, and the character of Deadpool 2 allows them to be "flexible with the timeline, per se".

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In May 2017, Fox was reportedly looking to use a post-credits scene at the end of Deadpool 2 to introduce several other members of X-Force who would go on to star alongside Reynolds, Brolin, and Beetz in an X-Force film.

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Deadpool 2 noted that Reynolds and the writers had "really put the time in on the script" to meet their own expectations for the sequel as well as those of fans.

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Deadpool 2 directed a brief moment where the X-Men are seen through an open door in the X-Mansion, which was added to Deadpool 2 with the aid of green screen to allow those characters to appear in this film.

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Deadpool 2's had two full days of rehearsing the stunt as well as five more attempts on the day of the accident.

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17.

Deadpool 2 felt that introducing Domino gave the film unique opportunities for action sequences taking advantage of her luck-based abilities, as well as focusing on Deadpool's healing abilities and trying to use those interestingly.

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18.

Domino's abilities were envisioned as a Rube Goldberg machine "on steroids", while Deadpool 2 allowing his arm to be broken during a fight was an example of his abilities being used.

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19.

Deadpool 2 highlighted a car chase which combines vehicles, actors, and green screen.

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20.

The film's first full trailer officially titled the film Deadpool 2, and revealed that Crews was portraying Bedlam; confirmed that Delaney would appear, portraying Peter; and that Bill Skarsgard had a role.

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21.

One scene that was cut from the film following test screenings was a post-credits scene featuring Deadpool 2 travelling back in time to kill a baby Adolf Hitler.

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22.

Junkie XL chose not to return for Deadpool 2 after composing the score for the first film, given that Miller was "the driving force behind" him working on that film in the first place.

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23.

Deadpool 2 explained that he thought the first film "had a winning lead character and fine character-centric jokes, but a pretty generic origin story plot that eventually became the thing it was critiquing", and was concerned that the sequel would turn out to be "a more standard 'superhero sequel' sell".

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Deadpool 2 said it would be closer to his initial runtime and would include a cut montage of Deadpool trying to commit suicide in various ways, an extended sequence in the X-Mansion, and alternate versions of jokes that were not chosen for the film's theatrical version.

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25.

The Super Duper Cut changed and added some post-credits scenes, including Deadpool 2 preventing Peter's death, referencing Wolverine's death in Logan, and extending the "Baby Hitler" post-credit scene from the theatrical release.

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Reynolds hinted that the version of the film would feature Deadpool 2 telling the story of the film to Fred Savage, parodying The Princess Bride in which a young Savage was told a bedtime story by Peter Falk who avoided "the scary parts that were a bit too adult for the youngster".

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Additionally, Deadpool 2 had the highest opening day for a 20th Century Fox film, beating Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.

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Deadpool 2 superseded its predecessor to become the highest grossing R-rated film of all time, until Joker, with a global gross of over $1 billion, surpassed it in 2019.

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Former Disney CEO Bob Iger said that Deadpool 2 would be integrated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe under Disney, and the character's films could remain R-rated "as long as we let the audiences know what's coming".

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