Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick Talk Signing on to Write the Script for 'Deadpool & Wolverine' | THR Video
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick share with THR what it meant to them to hear that Ryan Reynolds was willing to take money out of his paycheck to have them involved with 'Deadpool & Wolverine.' Plus, they explain how Hugh Jackman signing on for the film helped them find the script.
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00:00Gentlemen, let's talk about the big thing Ryan said to you take money out of his paycheck to have you guys working on set
00:06How does that feel just as friends?
00:09The best, you know, we've known Ryan for 15 plus years
00:13He's family to us. We're
00:15one, you know big
00:18Fucked up dysfunctional family and it's it's it means the world to us
00:24Riding for day one for this film to getting together and ideas
00:29Did you push the line as far as possible and say let's out. Let's see where we can take this line. Absolutely
00:35I mean it was almost like there were too many choices Paul compared it to going to the Cheesecake Factory
00:39There's too many things on the menu. You don't know what never decides
00:42It's like are we doing Chinese or Mexican or?
00:46American or what it's all there for the taking and it really wasn't until Hugh committed to the movie decided to do it
00:52That things narrowed and our focus narrowed and suddenly we had these two voices in our head and it was going to be a movie
00:58About two, you know mismatched, you know, quote-unquote friend friends frenemies
01:03I guess out on the road together and and then it gelled like crazy
01:07Inspired by movies that we loved from childhood the planes trains and automobiles
01:1348 hours midnight run it was just you get these mismatched
01:18Characters together and it just we hate to say it but it writes itself when Hugh texted Ryan said I'm in
01:26Did you just take control off the lead on what you already had prior to him confirming?
01:30we didn't have a script up to that point, but we had a lot of beat sheets and outlines and
01:34Explorations of different things and we tossed it right out the window. Truly
01:38I mean it just it became it became a Hugh and Ryan movie and
01:42Almost within a week and a half. We had the full outline like it was like the seas parting
01:46It was like Moses in the Red Sea when Hugh came aboard
01:50Now after working together with them on screen and seeing I'm sure how easy it was to work
01:56Do you start getting ideas of other projects for these two? Oh my gosh, they're magic together
02:01I mean, they're such good friends. So they have their own shorthand
02:04So working wise it works beautifully, but I think their chemistry on screen match that I don't I don't think they'd ever worked together
02:10before this except doing like viral videos
02:13Dad origins Wolverine
02:18But do you think there's any regrets because without it we wouldn't be here today though, you know, it's true
02:23It all came down in a certain way. So here we are
02:26Question of the night. Will you be having popcorn at a fused mouth tonight?
02:29Well, here's the dirty little secret Rhett was saying how he was gonna try and get
02:36the Wolverine
02:38Popcorn bucket home and he said oh, I'm gonna wear it on the plane
02:43And I was like, what exactly does that mean? Like, I don't know. I didn't make it through clearly
02:49Like I didn't know what the Wolverine bucket is, right like so you're gonna
02:54Wear that like where are you gonna wear that?
02:58Did you see many many iterations of that bucket before it became? Oh, no
03:02We look I had many in my imagination
03:04Because I had a pretty good sense of what they were gonna try but it exceeded even that