Amid all the surprisesDeadpool & Wolverineprovided for the fans, the opening sequence proved to be one of those classic Deadpool moments that quickly answered the question of how the movie was going to handle the events of 2017’s Logan. In short, by digging up the past…literally. One person surprised by the extreme lengths the sequence went to isLoganco-writerMichael Green, who recently shared his thoughts on the desecration of hisLoganending.
Even though Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine met an honorable end in what wassupposed to be his final run out as the X-Men character,Deadpool & Wolverinewasted no time in addressing the burning question many fans had about how it would sensitively handle one of the greatest character endings in comic book movie history. The short answer, delivered in a fourth wall breaking monologue by Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool, was that it wouldn’t. The moments that follow find Deadpool digging up the Adamantium skeleton of Wolverine and dismantling it one bone at a time to be used as a weapon to fight off TVA agents attempting to capture him.
Deadpool & Wolverine
While not controversial by any means, the opening sequence ofDeadpool & Wolverinecertainly surprised many Marvel fans. In a surprising turn of events,Loganco-writer Michael Green said in an interview withIGNthat he was warned ahead of the film’s release, but sees it as nothing but complimentary to the work he did on Jackman’s previous Wolverine movie. He stated:
“People had warned me ahead of time, ‘Uh, I don’t know how you’re gonna feel about the opening [of Deadpool & Wolverine]’ 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.
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. That movie’s such a good time. I mean, when we saw it in a full theater, people went bananas at everything. It’s great. It’s a great franchise, like, more, please!”
So it seems that he is not offended by the stunt pulled byDeadpool & Wolverine,but instead, he is in full approval of the masterpiece that the latest MCU film has become. One thing for sure is that no one will listen to N*Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye” in quite the same way again.
10 Most Quotable Lines From Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverine maintains the MCU’s trend of serving up memorable quotes. The following are the standout remarks.
Deadpool & Wolverine Continues to Dominate the Box Office
Deadpool & Wolverineisthe highest-grossing R-rated picture of all time,surpassing Joaquin Phoenix’sJoker, which earned $1.079 billion following its release in 2019. While the film is still less than a month old, whether it can surpassInside Out 2to become the highest grossing movie of the year seems unlikely, but as the first MCU movie to break the $1billion barrier sinceSpider-Man: No Way Homein 2021, no one is really complaining.
The Merc with a Mouth’s third outing was always expected to deliver a strong result for the beleaguered Marvel franchise, which has been struggling to entice audiences into theaters, and instead seen many fans happy to wait a few months for films likeThe Marvelsto hit Disney+. However, the sheer scale ofDeadpool & Wolverine’s success took everyone by surprise. Alongside dozens of records broken by the movie, it has tied with 2012’sThe Avengersas the fourth fastest MCU film to reach $1 billion.
Deadpool & Wolverineis still playing in theaters.
