By “Logan” co-writer Michael Green has seen “Deadpool & Wolverine” and has spoken about that film’s opening sequence.
SPOILERS AHEAD FOR “DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE”
The film sees Ryan Reynolds’ suited-up character digging up the corpse of Hugh Jackman’s Logan from the 2017 film and using his adamantium skeleton to kill a squad of TVA officers – all while dancing to N*SYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye”.
It’s the kind of typically silly sequence you’d expect from a “Deadpool” film but does beg the question as to whether Green or director James Mangold would be offended by it.
Speaking with IGN, Green has now weighed in and seems to have had a laugh over it and thought it was a nice tribute:
“People had warned me ahead of time, ‘Uh, I don’t know how you’re gonna feel about the opening [of Deadpool & Wolverine]’. I’m like, ‘I think I know what’s gonna happen.’ And I did not know! I didn’t know they were gonna go that far.
You weren’t meant to take seriously that they were, like, digging him up, and that it was really him. It felt less like they were trying to change the ending of Logan as they were contending with not feeling that they wanted to make a movie as good as they felt Logan was, which is a huge compliment! I felt like it was nothing but complimentary.”
Deadpool & Wolverine is packed with more Easter eggs, cameos, and references than you can shake a Time Stick at, but Green says he is grateful for one omission.
Green adds that he’s glad the new film doesn’t touch upon one thing, something the last movie definitely made fun of:
“You know what I appreciate even more was no Green Lantern jokes because I was partly responsible… You gotta wear it with a badge of honor!”
“Deadpool & Wolverine” recently passed “Joker” to become the biggest R-rated box-office hit of all time and should pass the $1.1 billion worldwide mark by the end of this weekend.
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