Here’s everything that was too expensive to appear in the new Deadpool movie
Deadpool is a comic book movie that was a passion project for everyone involved in the movie. This meant making the superhero movie required doing things on a very small budget. In fact, producers had to rewrite the script several times in order to save money including cutting a major character.
Here the 5 things producers removed from the original Deadpool movie in order to save money.
5. Garrison Kane
In the Deadpool comics, Kane is another product of the Weapon X program that produced Deadpool. He was originally in the movie, but was cut because his robot arms were a budget breaker. Director Tim Miller told Empire:
In the original script the action in the third act was great, but it was just Deadpool and a lot of guns. One of my notes early on was that I wanted to see more superhero stuff. We had Garrison Kane in there for a while, but in the final round of budget cuts we had to take him out, because he was a pretty expensive dude. He’s got these bionic arms that change shape; he would have been a visual effect for a large part of the movie. And as it turned out, a visual effect too far.
4. Bigger Final Fight Scene
Tim Miller wanted an even bigger superhero fighting in the third act, and the script included it for a long time. In addition to cutting Garrison Kane, the villains Sluggo and Wire were also expected to appear in the episode. According to reports, Kane, Sluggo, and Wire’s roles were all condensed into a single superhero and given to Gina Carano who played Angele Dust.
3. Several X-Men were Cut
In an earlier version of the movie script, Cannonball was Colossus’ young X-Men partner. That part was reworked to be given to the very minor character Negasonic Teenage Warhead. In the Empire Film Podcast, Ryan Reynolds said that even getting two X-Men was tough.
We went through such hell developing the script and which X-Men we could keep and which we couldn’t and it just turned into a nightmare. The studio would just say, ‘too expensive, too expensive, too expensive’ to everyone. So finally we were like well, “What about Negasonic Teenage Warhead” and they said, “Negasonic, what?”
Tim Miller explained Cannonball would have been “a stupid hick character.” Negasonic, opened up the real of teenage X-Men to the movie.
2. A ton of Marvel Cameos
Ryan Reynolds said that he had originally wanted to have Taskmaster, the mercenary with the ability to replicate the physical skills of anyone he sees, in the movie. This would have probably been a brilliant fight sequence and had mercenaries on both sides of the line.
We had endless [conversations about other X-Men]. Taskmaster was in the script originally, too expensive. We had versions where we wanted Hugh Jackman in there, we wanted all kinds of cameos from different people, but it just becomes a big mess for the studio.
But, the abilities were cut because it would require more special effects and the expense of obtaining character rights from Marvel.
1.More action scenes
According to reports, in order for the movie to be within the budget, Tim Miller had to cut seven million dollars from the budget, which meant losing nine pages of action scenes from the movie script.
There was a reduction of action. We had a motorcycle chase between Deadpool and Ajax on the freeway that we took out. We had a big, big gun fight in the third act that we took out and we basically had Deadpool forget his guns as a means of getting around it. So there were just reductions.
Either way Deadpool still dominated in the box office illustrating that a big budget movie and a ton of fight action scenes does not always sell movie tickets. Instead, a good storyline, a funny a character and an R-Rated movie is all that it takes to win Box Office Gold.
