Deadpool & Wolverine premiered in July 2024 and has since become the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. As of mid-September, it has made over $1.3 billion at the global box against a $200 million budget. Ryan Reynolds, who co-wrote and co-produced the movie besides portraying Deadpool, revealed an important advice he received from the MCU boss Kevin Feige, and how it impacted Deadpool & Wolverine.
Ryan Reynolds reveals Kevin Feige’s four-word advice for Deadpool & Wolverine
While addressing the audience at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York on Tuesday, September 17, Reynolds recalled the four-word advice he received from Feige.
“He said something that sounds very pedantic and is probably not the thing to say out loud, but actually, weirdly, served as a creative engine,” Reynolds explained. “He was like, ‘Make every scene great.’ And I was like, ‘Thanks, Kev. Sounds good.’” (via Deadline)
Reynolds elaborated on how those words influenced him and Deadpool & Wolverine after the production began. He said that he realized that his collaborative effort with Marvel flourished on “all those little tiny things” and revealed that he initially thought the company would be “like a red-line lawyer on every page. However, ultimately, Marvel and Disney turned out to be “such great partners,” he added.
Reynolds also disclosed that Feige’s words “haunted” him as he continued to work on the script. “‘Make it great’ – that’s hard,” Reynolds reflected. He described Deadpool & Wolverine as “an apex moment in [his] life, in terms of the experience of both making something and not just the outcome of it, the box office and stuff, but the actual experience of the movie itself.” He added, “Sitting in a movie theater with an audience where I’m hiding in the back, getting to watch those moments of surprise.”
Regarding the movie, which has a 78% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes after 401 reviews at the time of writing, Reynolds stated that it was “engineered so that people walked out of the experience, at minimum, a little bit better than when they walked in, and at maximum, just walking on sunshine and feeling that audience delight.”
