‘Deadpool and Wolverine‘ aims to be one of the great successes in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that is not saying something, especially at a time when superhero cinema seems to be in the doldrums. A film that seems to have everything to bring this type of productions back to the top, and no wonder, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman together are enough reason to go to the movies. Kevin Feigepresident of Marvel Studios, has spoken in Empire magazine and revealed that he did not accept the first proposal that Reynolds made to him about the film.
Feige has revealed the proposal that Reynolds made to him, with the actor himself declaring that ‘Deadpool 3’ was originally a “story Rashomon about Wolverine and Deadpool and something they got into together, but told from three completely different perspectives. It was a way to make a large-scale film in a very small way.” Rashomon is a classic of cinema, a masterpiece of Akira Kurosawa released in 1950, and which tells the story of a samurai, his wife and a bandit, with an encounter that ends in murder, betrayal and rape. Each tells their own version of the story in court, with the samurai intervening through a medium.
‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ and the idea of Ryan Reynolds being inspired by a film classic
Ryan Reynolds’ idea would have served to use the film’s footage on multiple occasions, thus creating a blockbuster in a more modest way. A curious idea that could be used in the future in the UCM, and Feige highlights that “Ryan is an ideas machine. So he may have thrown that at me, but he also threw 25 other thoughts and ideas at me.”
