Trivia / Deadpool 2

• Ability over Appearance:
  • Josh Brolin is rather short to be playing Cable at a mere 5'10", compared to his comics counterpart being a massive 6'8". However, he otherwise nails the look and personality perfectly, and was cast for this reason. Deadpool, being who he is, naturally hangs a lampshade on the height discrepancy.
  • Zazie Beetz doesn't have albinism like the comics Domino does, but she portrays the role with the right kind of charisma and attitude, so it didn't matter in the end.
• Acting for Two: Ryan Reynolds plays both the eponymous protagonist and Juggernaut. If you add Weapon XI and Himself in The Stinger, that makes four roles.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Terry Crews says he was informed up front that his role was to be a foiler to prevent spoilers from leaking. He immediately said "yes" because he thought it would be hilarious to take part in a massive prank to keep fans from figuring out the actual plot and spoiling the public before the film's release.
• Bad Export for You:
  • As usual, some of the more saucy scenes were completely cut or altered in countries with stricter censorship codes. For example, shots with Deadpool's baby-sized penis were obstructed with an added piece of loincloth to pass censorship standards (since it's CGI, they just made an alternative take with the cloth in place).
  • Some Asian countries, like China, Malaysia, and Singapore, got Once Upon A Deadpool on streaming services, and on the video-on-demand and pay-per-view services of several Pay TV providers, in Spring 2019, but not in cinemas.
• Banned in China: Well, not exactly banned, but like its predecessor, Deadpool 2 was denied a release in China due to the excessive violence. Ultimately, the PG-13 cut of the movie was given a release there.
• B-Team Sequel: Tim Miller left the film over "mutual creative differences" with Ryan Reynolds, reportedly based on several factors, including Reynolds' expanded creative control over the sequel; Miller's wish for a more stylized follow-up than the first film, versus Reynolds' focus "on the raunchy comedy style that earned the first movie its R rating"; and Miller's intention to cast Kyle Chandler as Cable, which Reynolds opposed. Fox ultimately backed "its marketable star" over Miller, who had made his directorial debut with the first film.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: In the Japanese dub, Black Tom is voiced by Rugby Union player Kenta Tsujii.
• Creator Backlash:
  • A minor example with Josh Brolin. While he's gone on record to state he's enjoyed playing Cable, he admitted in a 2020 interview that he felt like being in Deadpool 2 was more of a "business transaction", as Brolin had less creative freedom to experiment with the character than he did with Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • Ryan Reynolds later echoed the criticisms of the film over killing Vanessa, citing this movie as an example of a Stuffed in the Fridge plot in the Once Upon A Deadpool cut and in Deadpool and Korg React.
• Creative Differences: During pre-production, Tim Miller left due to Creative Differences with star and co-producer Ryan Reynolds. Junkie XL, who wrote the music for the first film, followed suit, and so did Angel Dust's actress Gina Carano.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: In the Japanese dub, Junko Minagawa voices Russell.
• Deleted Role: Omega Red's cameo was cut, but is included in the Super Duper Cut.
• Deleted Scene: See here.
• Dueling Movies: With Sony's Venom, another 2018 Marvel Comics-inspired movie that's unrelated to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's continuity and stars an Anti-Hero.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Josh Brolin got ripped and shredded in order to play Cable.
• Executive Meddling: Ryan Reynolds stated that Fox had to cut a joke mocking Disney from the film.^*According to the DVD commentary, it was during a conversation between Weasel and Deadpool. Justified since Fox was negotiating a sale to Disney at the time, but it should also be emphasized that Disney did not order the changes, and that Fox made the decision on their own. Reynolds himself has said it was for the better.
• Fatal Method Acting: Professional driver Joi "S.J." Harris (who was acting as a stuntwoman, despite the fact that stunt coordinators were against the idea) died on set on August 14th, 2017, forcing the production to shut down during the investigation.
• Foiler Footage: The ads showed Shatterstar and Bedlam fighting henchmen armed with guns. This never actually happens in the movie, since they, along with most of the other X-Force members, are comically killed off shortly after being introduced.
• In Memoriam:
  • The film is dedicated to stunt driver Joi "S.J." Harris, who was killed in an onset accident.
  • Once Upon a Deadpool pays homage to Stan Lee with several unused humorous takes from his cameo in Deadpool: No Good Deed and interviews.
• Missing Trailer Scene:
  • Bedlam punching someone was left out. Similarly, a scene of Shatterstar fighting two prison guards is absent.
  • Deadpool saying "You're absolutely right" to Domino after she answers "Isn't that a little derivative?" to his announcement of their team's name (the X-Force) was cut.
  • The dialogue with Deadpool saying that The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is "pure pornography" was not kept in the film.
  • Wade's excuse for being late of rounding up all the gluten in the world is replaced with rescuing "handi-capable kids from a tree", and "fighting a caped badass, and discovered that his mamma was named Martha too." Though these were returned in the Super Duper cut.
• Multiple Languages, Same Voice Actor: Shiori Kutsuna dubs herself as Yukio in the Japanese dub.
• No Export for You: Once Upon a Deadpool (the Christmas Special PG-13 cut of the film with a Framing Device starring Fred Savage) was released in cinemas in the USA, Japan, and Mexico only. Other countries only get it on direct-to-video or pay-per-view, if at all.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Shiori Kutsuna replaces Rila Fukushima as Yukio.
  • Ryan Reynolds replaces Vinnie Jones as the Juggernaut.
• The Other Marty: Averted for T.J. Miller, following his offscreen behavior (mentioned below in Role-Ending Misdemeanor), with many fans suggesting recasting his role, in a similar fashion to All the Money in the World. However, the studio decided against the idea, according to producer Shuler Donner, as the movie was already "in the final editing" at the time.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Negasonic is revealed to be a lesbian in this movie, similar to her actress Brianna Hildebrand (who's queer, into women along with men). In fact, she got into a relationship with a woman in the art department on the movie.
• Refitted for Sequel: Cable was going to be in the last movie, but they felt it best to introduce him here.
• Release Date Change: The original release date was June 1, 2018, but was changed to May 18, 2018.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: Because of T.J. Miller's offscreen behavior in the months leading up to this film's release, including being part of the sexual abuse allegations arising from the Weinstein Effect, accusations of transphobia by a former friend, and eventually concluding in calling in a fake bomb threat at Penn Station in revenge on a woman he'd argued with, until he got kicked off the train, Ryan Reynolds made a statement that Miller will not be invited back to any hypothetical follow-up films. The teaser trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine, which opens with a party featuring Wade and his friends, noticeably doesn't include Weasel suggesting the character has been dropped entirely.
• Role Reprise: In the Japanese dub, Kenji Nomura reprises his role as Juggernaut from the TV Asahi dub of X-Men: The Last Stand.
• "Take That!" Tit-for-Tat: The DC Universe streaming service responded to the film's jab at the DC Extended Universe with a montage of violent images from Titans (2018).
• Throw It In!: The scene where Deadpool accidentally breaks Cerebro was not planned, but Ryan Reynolds stayed sufficiently in character for the scene to be used in the final cut.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Brad Pitt and Liam Neeson were offered the role of Cable before Josh Brolin was cast. Pitt would eventually go on to portray the Vanisher, an invisible character, who ends up being electrocuted by a telephone cable.
    • David Harbour, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Shannon, John Cena and Edge read for the part of Cable as well. Mortensen was previously approached for the role of Wolverine in X-Men. Harbour would later go on to play Red Guardian in Black Widow, set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
    • Pierce Brosnan, Alec Baldwin, Kurt Russell, Stephen Lang, Mel Gibson, Ron Perlman, Russell Crowe, Bruce Willis, Kyle Chandler, Dolph Lundgren, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were also considered for Cable before the casting of Brolin.
  • Gugu Mbatha Raw and Sienna Miller were initially approached for the part of Domino before the casting of Zazie Beetz. Mbatha-Raw would eventually go on to join Loki as Judge Renslayer.
    • Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kerry Washington, Lizzy Caplan, Ruby Rose, Sofia Boutella, Stephanie Sigman, Mackenzie Davis, Kelly Rohrbach, Eve Hewson, Sylvia Hoeks, Janelle Monáe and Aubrey Plaza screen-tested for the role of Domino as well before the casting of Beetz. Plaza would later portray Lenny Busker in Legion and a currently unspecified character in Agatha.
  • Drew Goddard, Rupert Sanders and Magnus Martens were in the running to direct the film before David Leitch was hired.
  • If the scrolling text seen in the news reporter's coverage of Russell's rampage at the orphanage is to be believed, Christopher Plummer was offered a role in this film, but turned it down.
  • Tim Miller's original vision for the sequel envisioned a more comic-accurate (i.e. tall) Cable as well as an expanded role for Vanessa as she became the character Copycat. Additionally, Miller planned for an appearance by The Thing, with Michael Chiklis reprising his role, who would fight the Juggernaut in the climax.
  • One of the planned post-credits scenes would have involved Chris Evans reprising his first superhero role as the Human Torch.
  • Likewise, another idea was to have Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell from the failed Fantastic Four reboot show up, but the scene never made it past the scripting stage.
  • Black Tom originally had a much larger role in general, and was supposed to corrupt Russell and lead him down the path of violence and darkness. The studio eventually cut down his part because the special effects required to depict his powers would've proven too expensive.
  • In the original cut, Vanessa and Peter's deaths were meant to be permanent. David Leitch came up with the idea for The Stinger where Wade travels back in time and prevents both characters from being killed after the first test screenings, and it was added in reshoots.
  • The X-Force was originally going to get blown up by landing on a minefield. The filmmakers scrapped the idea when they were unable to come up with a good reason for the plane to be flying over an airfield.
• Word of Saint Paul:
  • According to Lewis Tan, Deadpool did in fact save Shatterstar and the other members of the X-Force from death using Time Travel at the end just like Vanessa and Peter, and said that his character will be return as a main cast member in the X-Force movie. While the X-Force movie ultimately ended up getting scrapped, Shatterstar does return in the trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine amongst Wade's other friends, confirming that he indeed get saved offscreen.
  • According to Terry Crews, Bedlam survived and spent the rest of the movie in an ICU but definitely alive.
• Written by Cast Member: Ryan Reynolds co-wrote and co-produced the film.

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