Shawn Levy Reveals Which Characters Almost Made It into ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ But Were Ultimately Cut

Deadpool & Wolverine, featuring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, has become one of the year’s most highly anticipated films. Fans have eagerly awaited the chance to see these beloved characters team up on the big screen, and the movie is currently enjoying significant success worldwide.

As audiences continue to spot and count the numerous Easter Eggs in the film, it’s clear that while many iconic Marvel characters made brief appearances, several others did not make it into the final cut. In a recent interview with Variety, director Shawn Levy shared insights about the cameos, revealing that there was initially a much longer list of potential characters considered for the movie. Discover which ones almost appeared below!

Director Shawn Levy recently spoke with Variety, sharing intriguing behind-the-scenes details about the blockbuster movie currently dominating theaters. He revealed fascinating insights about the potential cameos that nearly made it into the film.

Were there any legacy characters you wanted in the film but that ultimately didn’t pan out?

When you go into the MCU and have unlimited access to this legacy of characters, you have to be your own disciplinarian. We wanted the movie to, above all, be warm-hearted. It can’t be emotional or poignant if you’re not vested in these characters. We didn’t want to go so crazy with the multiverse that you take your eye off the balls that count most. We were judicious. Several of these characters were in early drafts of the scripts and never changed.

Pyro made sense because we knew Johnny Storm was going to be in the movie. And who has a certain superheroic capacity with fire? Pyro. Other ideas were more personal. Zeb Wells, one of our co-writers, has always been a mad fan of Tyler Mane’s Sabretooth. He wrote Sabretooth into a first draft, and it never left because it got him so excited, and that made the rest of us so excited.

Others along the way, like the Blob and Azazel, evolved over eight months of pre-production. There was a brief conversation about, “Should we do the Vinnie Jones’ Juggernaut? Should we do a CGI juggernaut?” Ultimately, we thought that we had enough bringbacks in Aaron Stanford, Tyler, Jen and Wesley that we thought, “Let’s do another variant [with a different actor] and keep it non-CGI.” So we used Aaron Reed, who plays Dude in “Free Guy.”

Source: Variety

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