DEADPOOL: After Waiting 6 Years For the Green Light, Ryan Reynolds Shares His 'Let's Be Thankful' Moment When Filming Began



Actor Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller have been trying to get a DEADPOOL screenplay by Rhett Rheese and Paul Wernick made for six years. In those six years there was a script leak and plenty of rumors about how Fox didn't want to green light an R rated super hero movie. Then the test footage leaked right after the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con ended and the Internet exploded asking Fox asking why it hasn't been put into production. Fox took that reaction as a sign to green light the film with an R rating, in fall 2014.

Fast-forward to right now and DEADPOOL is already in post-production for its February 12, 2016 release. Reynolds spoke with GQ and shared a moment he, Miller and assumed Rheese and Wernick had on the first day of shooting in Vancouver.

"Oh, I made sure we marked it, too. Like, we just started rolling, and I was like, ‘No, no, hold on.’ We went in the other room and we huddled up: ‘We’re making this movie! We’ve been trying to get this movie made for six fucking years, and here we are. We’re doing it right now. Just remember this second. Just take a moment to be thankful for that.’ And then we all went out and just started shooting and dicking around and had some fun.”

Reynolds, who has been more than vocal about his Deadpool fandom for the past six-plus years while trying to get the movie made, also spoke about returning to the super hero movie genre after his turn as GREEN LANTERN, in 2011.

"...Deadpool was different because there wasn’t a big budget attached to it. There was not a tremendous responsibility to meet some kind of bottom line. Those kinds of superhero movies when you’re out front, there’s a vast and quite frightening budget attached to them. This one had a super-reasonable budget, and it was subversive and a little bit different, and to me a little refreshing in the comic-book world. But you always have trepidation. When you’re out front, you have trepidation.”

The actual budget of DEADPOOL has yet to be disclosed but it has been reported to be approximately one-fourth of the budget of a normal big budget tentpole super hero movie. So think in the $50 million range, give or take.