LIEFELD: That's fantastic,
-/ did not know that. - MILLER: Yeah.
We thought that, "Don't swallow," It's a more universal joke.
ll' is. MILLER; Yeah.
And the blend of live action with CG is really seamless.
A I01' Of CG.
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This depiction of Colossus excites me the most.
As a director, I'm such a nerd that
I underestimated every/body's knowledge of who the X-Men are
and where they come from.
So, originally we didn't have this scene.
They kind of show up later to take Deadpool into custody.
When we did some early screenings,
a lot of people were a little confused about
are they against Deadpool, are they here to arrest him,
are they here to help him? They didn't know.
And so, I was excited about adding this scene here
that sort of set up who the X-Men were
and what his connection is to the rest of the mutant world.
But I really love this little scene, underneath the mansion,
when they go to the Blackbird.
And it really helped, I think, set us up...
Sets the table. MILLER: ...and Colossus shows up. Yeah.
LIEFELD: It 100% sets the table.
Little anecdote. I was reading in the Marvel X-Men Chronicles
that Colossus was intended to be the star of the X-Men franchise,
that's why he's so prominent on the first six covers.
But Wolverine kind of caught
the attention of the fans thrusting fon/vard.
But Colossus has never been
served in a way that you did in this film.
These are great thugs.
I 'm telling you, there's always thugs in movies,
but this brown pants guy...
These guys are fantastic.
These are all stunt guys. And stunt crew did really amazing.
Phil Silvera and Rob Alonzo were our stunt coordinators.
And these guys were all talented.
Will, that guy right there, later jumped into the Deadpool suit.
When one of our other Deadpool stunt doubles got injured,
Will came in and did a great job.
And we shot this sequence
for something like 12 days or something crazy.
You gotta remember, those guys,
once they get shot here and injured,
they gotta lay there in the rain on the road.
LIEFELD: I didn't think about that.
MILLER: For days after we're done shooting.
When we're shooting the other scenes around them.
So, kudos to them.
This countdown of the bullets, it's a signature set piece.
When I first read in the script this whole, entire freeway scene,
I was like...
Again, the level of violence in this,
you just go, "I hope they put this in."
When I first saw it with you, the first cut,
right there, I'm like, "It's happening."
They made this as hardcore as they could possibly make it.
llove it, too, but if you remember the original script,
it was originally 18 bullets.
- And we had to cut it to 12... - LIEFELD: That's awesome.
...for time and schedule and budget.
Oh!
There was some cool stuff that we, unfortunately, had to cut out.
There was a sequence where
he shoots one of the other motorcycle riders,
and the bike keeps coming at him.
And he ducks and throws, in slow-mo, the bike over his head,
and then, as it goes towards some other thugs,
he shoots the gas tank and it explodes,
and kills a bunch of bad guys.
There.
This dance, you just react instantly. And up his butthole.
- What does he call it? -
"Right up Main Street." LIEFELD: Main Street.
That was Ryan's idea on the day.
He's like, "Dude, I should get shot right in the ass."
LIEFELD: It's fantastic. It just sets it all apart.
It's a level of action and...
Look, by the time this commentary comes out,
the movie will have been out.
And the work you guys did
here is gonna change so much of what comes next.
- This is the money shot. This is the money. - MILLER: Yeah.
And this one was always in there.
- The three thugs with one bullet shot. - LIEFELD: Oh.
Tim, and this is, again, when you first debuted the footage
as a trailer in San Diego,
and this entire sequence ended it,
it was the message to the fans,
"This is the Deadpool you wanna see.
"This is hardcore, it's violent.
You've already seen all the jokes.
"But let's end with one bullet, three heads."
I got a bunch of my buddies into that Hall H to see this,
and that's all I heard about for weeks,
"One bullet, three heads."
Yeah, great shot, great shot.
The first time I read the script,
the scene here where he kills the guy with the katanas
was so lavishly written.
- I fell in love with the script right there. - LIEFELD: Yes.
Because he does this whole homoerotic monologue
as he's up there and talking about
his muscles are bulging out in every conceivable place.
And it was just this really prolonged moment.
And the funny thing is, when I saw it for the first time with you,
you said, "Rob, I gotta be honest.
I wish we did more with the katanas. "
And so, we're, what, 14 minutes into the movie,
and I see him kebab this guy.
And I'm like, "What are you talking about, Tim?
"This is good for me. This is great."
Oh, but, yeah, but you want a big sword fight.
LIEFELD: This is great. This is actually also influenced...
This is from the comics. LIEFELD: This is from the comics.
Yeah. LIEFELDI Daniel Way,
uh, issue 10 Deadpool, Ibelieve.
So, you can match it up.
Which I didn't know at first when I read it.
I'm sure I'd read it in
the comic books and then forgotten about it,
'cause I read eight million comic books.
But, uh, yeah, it comes right from the books.
Yeah, no, Rhett and Paul did a great job
mashing up about 18 years' worth of Deadpool history
and just, uh, getting all the high points
and giving it a brand-new narrative.
'Cause I tell people,
"You can't find this movie in a comic book."
This is very fresh, but it's the spirit of the character
and it has great details from the comics.
But, like with all great movies, Donner's Superman movie,
I had never seen that version of Lex Luthor before.
That was signature to that film.
And that defined Superman to me.
This is the definitive Deadpool.
And those guys did a great job.
When I read it I was blown away.
And then to see it come to life here.
- This guy is hilarious. - MILLER: He is great, yeah.
Kyle did a great job.
The line that Ryan has here,
"/ 'll shoot your fucking cat,"
he did one take of it that was,
"L will shoot you in the fucking cat."
Which, I don't know why, it's so nonsensical.
Oh, my God, it fucking cracked me up.
I ruined the take because I was laughing behind the camera.
- And Ryan starts laughing. -
And then we do another couple takes of it.
And I loved it.
It was one of my favorite lines in the whole movie.
It's a good one. MILLER: But nobody laughed.
So, we changed it to, "L will shoot your fucking cat."
Which always gets a laugh.
Although, it's this weird laugh because he's confused.
LIEFELD: Yeah, nobody knows what's... The chaos in this scene.
The jokes are so fast in this movie,
I guarantee the movie benefits
from people going back to hear the 10 jokes they didn't hear.
Cool?
Yes, sir.
Then we're done.
Wait. We are?
Yeah. We're totally done.
You should've seen your face.
I didn't know what to do. I was so scared.
Soft spot, remember?
LIEFELD: And when he explodes right here, it's great.
-l\/llLLERI Oh, yeah, totally. -
The kiss was, uh, an ad-Iib of Ryan's, too.
It was great.
LIEFELD: And this is great,
establishing him as a good guy, as a hero, good intentions.
Or at least not as a bad guy. LIEFELD: Yeah.
I'm sure a lot of fans picked up on Feige's Famous Pizza there.
- For Kevin. - LIEFELD: Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
I'm sure he'll get a kick out of it.
This sets it up perfectly that,
like you said, he's not a bad guy.