Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds was as disappointed with X-Men Origins: Wolverine as everyone else.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor said that he thought the depiction of Deadpool was all wrong in X-Men Origins.
“It was a very frustrating experience,” Reynolds said. “I was already attached to the Deadpool movie. We hadn’t at that point written a script yet. [Origins] came along and it was sort of like, ‘Play Deadpool in this movie or we’ll get someone else to.’ And I just said, ‘I’ll do it, but it’s the wrong version. Deadpool isn’t correct in it.’"
Reynolds recalled how baffling it was that in Origins, Deadpool has his mouth sewn shut, even though the character is known as the merc with a mouth. The actor went on to reveal that he wrote his few lines himself because the film was being made during the writers strike and so the script just directed him to "talk really fast."
In fact, the studio apparently later regretted some of its decisions regarding Deadpool's character and asked Reynolds to fly back for reshoots, but he was busy shooting The Proposal by that point.
We'll finally see a proper depiction of Deadpool this weekend in the character's first major motion picture of his own. Reynolds has spent 11 years trying to get the film off the ground and that hard work has finally paid off. In fact, as we previously reported, 20th Century Fox has already ordered a sequel.