Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick Talk Signing on to Write the Script for 'Deadpool & Wolverine' | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick share with THR what it meant to them to hear that Ryan Reynolds was willing to take money out of his paycheck to have them involved with 'Deadpool & Wolverine.' Plus, they explain how Hugh Jackman signing on for the film helped them find the script.

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00:00Gentlemen, let's talk about the big thing Ryan said to you.

00:03Take money out of his paycheck to have you guys working on set.

00:06How does that feel, just as friends?

00:08Oh, it was very rewarding.

00:10The best.

00:11You know, we've known Ryan for 15 plus years.

00:13He's family to us.

00:15We're one, you know, big, fucked up, dysfunctional family.

00:21And it means the world to us.

00:24Riding for day one for this film to getting together and ideas,

00:29did you push the line as far as possible and say,

00:32let's see where we can take this line?

00:34Absolutely.

00:35I mean, it was almost like there were too many choices.

00:37Paul compared it to going to the Cheesecake Factory.

00:39There's too many things on the menu.

00:40You don't know what your line is.

00:41You can never decide.

00:42Never.

00:43It's like, are we doing Chinese or Mexican or American or what?

00:48It's all there for the taking.

00:49And it really wasn't until Hugh committed to the movie, decided to do it,

00:52that things narrowed and our focus narrowed.

00:55And suddenly we had these two voices in our head

00:57and it was going to be a movie about two, you know,

01:00mismatched, you know, quote, unquote, friends, frenemies, I guess,

01:04out on the road together.

01:06And then it gelled like crazy after that.

01:08Inspired by movies that we loved from childhood,

01:11the planes, trains and automobiles, 48 hours, midnight run.

01:16It was just, you get these mismatched characters together

01:20and it just, we hate to say it, but it writes itself.

01:24When Hugh texted Ryan and said, I'm in,

01:27did you just hit Control-Alt-Delete on what you already had prior to him confirming it?

01:31We didn't have a script up to that point,

01:32but we had a lot of beat sheets and outlines and explorations of different things

01:36and we tossed it right out the window, truly.

01:38I mean, it just, it became, it became a Hugh and Ryan movie.

01:41And almost within a week and a half, we had the full outline.

01:44It was like the seas parting.

01:46It was like Moses in the Red Sea when Hugh came aboard.

01:50Now, after working together with them on screen and seeing, I'm sure,

01:54how easy it was to work, do you start getting ideas of other projects for these two?

01:59Oh my gosh, they're magic together.

02:01I mean, they're such good friends, so they have their own shorthand.

02:04So working-wise, it works beautifully.

02:06But I think their chemistry on screen matched that.

02:09I don't think they'd ever worked together before this except doing like viral videos.

02:13Oh, origins. Wolverine origins.

02:16Actually, you know what, let's not speak of them.

02:18We don't speak of them.

02:19But do you think there's any regrets?

02:20Because without it, we wouldn't be here today, though.

02:22It's true. It's true.

02:23It all came down in a certain way, so here we are.

02:26Question of the night.

02:27Will you be having popcorn out of Hugh's mouth tonight?

02:30Well, here's the dirty little secret.

02:32Rhett was saying how he was going to try and get the Wolverine popcorn bucket home.

02:40And he said, oh, I'm going to wear it on the plane.

02:43And I was like, what exactly does that mean?

02:47I don't know.

02:48I didn't think it through, clearly.

02:50You know what the Wolverine bucket is, right?

02:53Like, so you're going to wear that?

02:56Like, where are you going to wear that?

02:59Did you see many iterations of that bucket before it became?

03:02Oh, no.

03:03Look, I had many in my imagination because I had a pretty good sense of what they were going

03:06to try, but it exceeded even that.

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