Much of what happened in Deadpool & Wolverine was a total surprise, but that it had two scenes in the credits was not. If any Marvel movie was ever going to have end-credit scenes, it was Deadpool & Wolverine. But what those scenes actually were—one a heartfelt, nostalgic yet funny tribute, the other a super dirty callback—were as unpredictable as everything else.
“Deadpool is just going to do it Deadpool’s way,” Shane Reid, an editor of Deadpool & Wolverine, told io9. “The thing that you’re expecting to see is just not exactly what you’re going to get.” Reid said the expletive-filled Johnny Storm rant at the end of the credits was always going to be the end-credits tag; there was never a big, multiverse-teasing scene shot. “[Johnny Storm] was always the end-credit scene,” he said. “Which I thought was a brilliant callback to a joke from early on in the film. There wasn’t anything [else].”
Maybe the bigger surprise is the montage of footage from the Fox X-Men days which, again, was the plan early on. “That was Ryan’s brainchild,” Reid said. “He always envisioned it. And I think some of his partners at [production company] Maximum Effort were aligned in that they really wanted to send the fans with something that felt sweet and appreciative of the history that they’d all come from, and why we were all here. And so that was his idea.”
Reid helped put that sequence together and explained that not only did the footage come from a lot of places, each and every person you see had to approve their appearance. “[Ryan’s] team at Maximum Effort sent us a ton of YouTube clips,” Reid explains. “I went into burn some special features and just found as much B-roll as we could. And, then found these little moments of Ryan interviewing as Deadpool in [X-Men] Origins: [Wolverine] and Hugh [Jackman] interviewing and it wasn’t like it was supposed to service just them, but it was like, ‘Okay, we have watched these two characters and you guys have been on quite a journey. Why don’t we just sort of fold that into this?’”
The reason Blade wasn’t in there is that the Blade movies are owned by New Line, which isn’t under Disney, but Reid “would have loved to have Blade in there.” But he did love putting all these other people in the film. “We had to clear all that stuff with the actors and any cameos and anyone who appeared, like the James Mangold or anybody who had just had their face in it,” Reid said. “And those guys [Reynolds and Levy] did the hard sell of calling those celebrities and, in describing what they were doing and their intention behind it, got everyone approved. And, it was a feat of a lot of people’s work to build something that was just quite simply a love letter.”
Reid does admit though that he enjoys people thinking it might be a tease for a future X-Men movie when it first starts. “I love when I’m in the audience and the ‘X’ comes on for that legacy reel and you feel people going like, ‘Oh, what’s happening here?’” he said. “Then you catch people like sitting poised up in their seats, like just watching it, sort of open-eyed the whole time. Like, like just this dopamine hit… And I think it’s that’s Ryan’s brain. Like, how do you take something that’s expected and subvert it and do something that feels solo to the character?”
Deadpool & Wolverine is now in theaters.
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