Warning: This note contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.
Logan co-writer Michael Green admitted that the opening scene of Deadpool and Wolverine surprised him… but in a good way.
Green, who co-wrote the finale of the Wolverine trilogy with James Mangold and Scott Frank, recently stopped by the IGN office to talk about Blue Eye Samurai. But while he was there, he also sat down with IGN to share his reaction to the Deadpool & Wolverine intro, which finds Ryan Reynolds’ costumed antihero digging up the rotting corpse of Logan (Hugh Jackman) from the 2017 film and using its adamantium skeleton (claws included) to kill an entire squad of TVA officers.
“People had warned me beforehand: ‘I don’t know how you’re going to feel about the premiere. [de Deadpool & Wolverine]”I was like, ‘I think I know what’s going to happen.’ And I didn’t know! I didn’t know they were going to go that far.”
“You weren’t supposed to take seriously the fact that they were digging him up and that it was actually him,” he said. “It felt less like they were trying to change the ending of Logan, but they were grappling with the fact that they didn’t want to make a movie as good as they thought Logan was, which is a huge compliment! I felt like it was nothing more than a compliment.”
Deadpool & Wolverine is packed with more Easter eggs, cameos and references than you might imagine, but Green says he appreciates one omission.
“That movie is so much fun. I mean, when we saw it in a packed theater, people went crazy with everything. It’s great. It’s a great franchise, more please!” he said, later adding: “You know, what I appreciate most is that there are no Green Lantern jokes because I was partly responsible… You have to wear it with a badge of honor!”
The loudmouthed mercenary found time for an occasional dance break between all the action in the opening scene, as he busted out a (heavily choreographed) move to NSYNC’s hit song ‘Bye Bye Bye.’ As a result, the song skyrocketed up the music charts and made it into the Top 20 on Spotify Global, 24 years after its original release.
It’s no surprise, given the record-breaking box office success of Deadpool & Wolverine. The latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe surpassed $1 billion at the global box office in its third weekend in theaters, breaking the records held by the previous two MCU installments, The Marvels and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
