If you’ve been on “Marvel fan Twitter” or TikTok at any point in the past year, chances are you caught at least one glimpse of something spoiler-y from the Deadpool & Wolverine film sets.
Director Shawn Levy talks about the challenges of keeping all the secrets secret while shooting in the U.K. When the crew touched down, paparazzi swarmed — even leaking photos of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman back in their supersuits. This prompted director Levy to release his own official first-look photo of the guys back together on screen.
“We saw the wave of imagery coming from sources that weren’t sanctioned. So we immediately decided on the fly in the middle of a shoot to take a proper picture that would give the world a proper introduction to these costumes,” Levy told Entertainment Weekly.
The leaked paparazzi photos showed Reynolds’ Deadpool and Jackman’s Wolverine shooting an action sequence involving a host of characters in a clay quarry in London, then walking the countryside in South England. But these leaks, as far as Levy and the team are concerned, were worth it.
“It’s been really challenging because, long before our first day of shooting, Ryan and I, with [Marvel President] Kevin Feige’s blessing, made a decision as producers to have this movie look and shoot different than most other MCU movies,” Levy explains.
“That meant limited sound stages, limited green screen, and way, way more practical scenes shot in real-world exterior locations. With that decision came risk, and that risk was illustrated on day 1, shooting in a quarry where a phalanx of paparazzi was perched up above on a hillside. That’s the price we paid for wanting a movie that felt grounded and real. And I will tell you, that’s a price we’re comfortable paying when it comes to some of the secrets and surprises in the movie.”
The team also strategically planted fake leaks to hide the staggering amount of cameos that Deadpool & Wolverine has in store. From Taylor Swift to even Ryan Reynold’s wife, Blake Lively, fans were going wild theorising who might appear in the film.
However, the only appearances actually confirmed so far ahead of the film are Aaron Stanford as Pyro, Tyler Mane as Sabretooth, Dafne Keen as X-23/Laura, and Loki star Wunmi Mosaku as Verity Willis/B-15.
To see who else is going to assemble in the movie, you’ll have to catch it in theatres on 26 July.
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