Ryan Reynolds Says Final Fight in DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Looked Very Different Before Hugh Jackman Signed On

Ryan Reynolds has been the driving force behind his lovable R-rated character Deadpool. He has brought the character to life in seemingly only the way he could, and now that he has merged with Marvel and is enjoying the success of Deadpool & Wolverine, he is reminiscing about the journey and revealing some of the original ideas for the massive event film.

In the movie, we got to see Deadpool team up with Wolverine for an unconventional buddy flick that brought smiles to all the fans.

But before Hugh Jackman had signed on to return, Reynolds was figuring out how to proceed solo, and he said he originally envisioned an ending to the film that also had an epic fight scene to the tune of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer,” but it would have killed off a fan-favorite character.

In a recent interview with Collider, Reynolds explained that he was initially planning to kill-off Colossus, the metal mutant hero Wade Wilson had struck up a friendship with in the first two movies.

The X-Man often made futile attempts to convince Wilson to be less offensive, and it seems his words were finally going to get through.

Reynolds said: “Anyway, so Deadpool doesn't swear. He’s very, very kind of like chaste, and then when Colossus dies in the third act for the same MoCo sequence with 'Like a Prayer,' he says, because in Deadpool 2, I say, as I'm dying on the ground, I do this long, elaborate death in Deadpool 2 where I keep coming up with new reasons to not die.

“And it's exhausting all my friends around me who are sort of saying goodbye. I do a call back where Colossus says, he says, 'Wade, say f— for me,' as he's lying on the ground, dying, same thing I said to him, you know, and I'm like, ‘what, what?’ and, you know, I'm emotional.

“And he says, ‘Come on, we'll do it, we'll do it together, you know, on three, come on, here we go. It'll be fine. One, two…' and I sort of say [silence] and he dies, like before I even can say it."

It seems like that story was left to the wayside when Wolverine was added to the film, as Colossus only appears very briefly at the start and end of the movie.

“So Jackman agreeing to reprise the role probably saved Colossus from getting killed by... zombies? Or whoever the big bad was supposed to be, according to Reynolds.

He continued: "And you see Wade step out of frame. And you would hold on the empty frame for like, maybe two minutes of his Colossus body, just excruciating.

“Like, something that the studio would go like, ‘You can't do that!’ And Wade goes, comes back into frame wearing the full Deadpool suit, and the swords, pulls them out, kicks open the door, ‘Like a Prayer’ starts and that MoCo shot against like, I don’t know, zombies, I forget what the sort of baddie was.

“And it was- I loved it, and it was such a powerful sequence. But that construction is still there, but it's with Wolverine now. And obviously, you know, starts and ends much different."

That sounds crazy! I’m glad the movie ended up the way it did, especially with Wolverine and the other great characters that were involved. I look forward to seeing Colossus again in a future MCU story one day.