How DEADPOOL's Incredible Title Sequence Came to Be
The opening title sequence for Deadpool is easily one of the best and most badass titles sequences created for a movie ever. They immediately sucked you right Into the movie and the entire audience was hooked.
During a recent Q&A at Silicon Valley Comic Con (via ComicBook), Blur Studio Layout director Franck Balson was asked how the crazy inventive title sequence came into existence, and this is what he said:
"The idea for the title sequence was actually already in the script from the very beginning, at least the main part: frozen moments in the middle of this f***ed up car accident,. The one thing that wasn’t in there – originally, the titles were supposed to be actual titles, with actual actors’ names and stuff like that."
The titles they ended up using in the opening is really what took the opening to a whole new level of hilarity. When talking about how those titles ended up in there instead of the names of the actual people in the cast and crew, he explained:
"Very early on in the process, Ryan was the only one who had been cast at that moment, and we started working on the pre-vis for the whole film; we started working on that sequence because it was going to define that whole car chase. It needed to finish exactly in this freeze-frame moment and look good. We looked at different ways to put the guys, and were just going, ‘Okay, that’s a really cool thing to have.’ At the time, since we didn’t know who was going to be in the movie, I was like, ‘okay, what do we have? So we have the Hot Chick, the bad guy, the CGI character,’ and just put all those names in there."
When it came to actually finalize the title sequence everyone just felt it would be best to leave it the way it was because it was so damn funny:
"When we started replacing the names, [director] Tim [Miller] was showing it to Ryan, the writers, and the producers, and they said ‘you know what? I think we’re gonna go with what you had before, the one with the Hot Chick and stuff – it’s funny!’ And that’s how that got in the movie!"
Bravo!