DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Editors Reveal the Insane Cost of Wolverine's Brown and Tan Suit
Deadpool & Wolverine editors Dean Zimmerman and Shane Reid recently sat down for an interview with CBM, and during their discussion, they talked about creating the Wolverine Variant sequence in the film. It’s here they revealed the insane cost to get Wolverine’s brown and tan suit in the film.
In the film, we see Deadpool traverse the multiverse looking for the Wolverine who can help him in his mission. We see him encounter the likes of Age of Apocalypse Wolverine, Old Man Logan, and even a version of the clawed mutant wearing John Byrne's classic brown and tan suit for a fight with The Hulk!
When asked about reports they came up with the idea of adding those Wolverine Variants when work on the film was on pause during the Hollywood strikes, Dean and Shane explained their creative process and said that the brown and tan suit cost $100,000 to create!
Dean said: “One of our storyboard artists was a huge comic book fan and he gave us a list of, like, ten of them. There was also, and maybe no on really likes to hear this, time and budget issues you have to deal with as well.
“Here’s a perfect example: the brown and tan, we spent around $100,000 building that suit. They’re expensive. To build this kind of stuff…we have to get a little economical with what we could actually come up with and do.
“So, yeah, ‘Hugh, can you take your shirt off be bolted to a cross?’ ‘Yeah, I can do that, no problem.’ ‘Great, let’s get a bunch of pink skulls, throw ‘em down there, and light it in the way of the comic book.’ ‘Can you be an old man?’ ‘Sure!’ They were all thought out but also done with budget in mind and also time. We didn’t have much time.
“Once we resumed shooting, our deadline on this movie was so tight. When we went back to photography in London, we did have a finite amount of time and even coming up with all those ideas, once we got back, we were like, ‘Hey everyone, we’re going to do this’ and everyone’s heads are exploding. How are we going to do this in the time we have left?”
Shane added: “The reason we could is because we were able to shed some things. That time between the break, we used as well as we could. Dean and I did a hard pitch to Shawn and Ryan about that sequence and, again, being in a relationship with collaborators who see your vision and then run with it, because we were economically able to take some things out we might have wanted to get or didn’t need any more, we were able to fit that in.
“Dean and I have said this a few times, but the film benefited from that break. We luckily were able to problem-solve things and come up with new things. It’s one of those things that while it was a challenge and scary at the time, in some ways, it helped in this experience for us to push the film a little bit further.”
Dean went on to say: “Like I said, it’s one of those things that’ll stand the test of time. Just the costumers…it’s all handmade. It’s all done to an inch of Hugh’s body. To shoot it all as well.”
The creative team behind Deadpool & Wolverine did a hell of a great job bringing this wild story to life. I know making movies isn’t cheap, but damn… $100,000 for a costume is pretty insane to me.