Here's The Interesting Connection Between DEADPOOL and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
Five minutes ago, I would not have been able to guess that there was a connection between Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. One is an irreverent, hard R-rated, ultra-violent, Earth-centric, meta movie about one main character, while the other appears to be a more offbeat yet still populist-leaning ensemble that continues the adventures of an unorthodox team of good-hearted space pirates. But according to The Playlist, the connection is real.
Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds and co-writer Paul Wernick appeared at a Q&A for the film this past weekend, and they spoke about now Marvel Studios had to get involved in the production and swap the rights for Negasonic Teenage Warhead with Kurt Russell's Ego The Living Planet from Guardians 2.
"We were looking down the list of the 400 [‘X-Men’] characters that Fox owns, and NTW jumped out and we were like, ‘yes. I don’t care what her powers are. She’s gonna be in the movie.’"
Owing to their superficial reasons for adding Negasonic Teenage Warhead to the Deadpool cast in the first place, Reese and Wernick elected to eschew essentially everything but the character’s name in the film script, even imbuing her with an entirely different set of powers (in the comics, she is psychic as opposed to literally explosive). For that, Fox was forced to get the okay from Marvel Studios, initiating a superhero swap between the studios whose results will next be seen in James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. “Kurt Russell [‘s Ego the Living Planet] in the new Guardians movie was the character that Fox swapped with Marvel to [change] Negasonic Teenage Warhead powers,” explained Wernick.
It's cool to hear that Marvel and Fox can come to agreements like this. Many fans are hoping that Fox eventually strikes some kind of co-production deal with Marvel so the comic book giants can finally get a good Fantastic Four movie released, and small deals like this have to be considered positive steps (however small) that could theoretically pave the way for larger deals to happen in the future.
The full article is a must-read for Deadpool fans, and among other things, it talks about the ill-fated Green Lantern movie and how Reynolds recorded some actual screen-used audio for Deadpool on his iPhone.
