Deadpool 2

Deadpool 2
Director(s)	David Leitch
Writer(s)	Rhett Reese Paul Wernick Ryan Reynolds
Producer(s)	Simon Kinberg Ryan Reynolds Lauren Shuler Donner
Composer	Tyler Bates
Release Date	May 18, 2018
Running Time	Theatrical Version 111 min Super Duper Cut 119 min Once Upon a Deadpool 116 min
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"Believe it or not, Deadpool 2 is a family film. True story. And every good family film starts with a vicious murder."

―Deadpool

Deadpool 2 is the sequel to Deadpool and the eleventh installment in the X-Men film series. It was released worldwide on May 3, 2018.

An extended cut of the film, dubbed the Super Duper Cut was released on August 7, 2018, and a re-cut, PG-13 version of the film was released theatrically on December 12, 2018.

A sequel, titled Deadpool & Wolverine, which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was released on July 26, 2024.

Synopsis

After surviving a near-fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry's hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade Wilson must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World's Best Lover.

Plot

Two years after the events of the first film, Wade Wilson has become a mercenary who works worldwide, killing various criminals. Following an aborted attempt on the life of the head of a drug cartel operating in his home city, Deadpool returns home to his girlfriend Vanessa Carlysle to celebrate their anniversary. Deadpool gifts Vanessa a skee-ball token, in reference to their first date, and the two agree to start a family. Later that night the drug lord attacks Wade at his home and, in the process, Vanessa dies. Wade chases the criminal through the streets and embraces him on the road as a truck runs into them and kills the drug lord.

Six weeks later Deadpool decides to kill himself by blowing up his apartment with several barrels of high-grade fuel. During his 'death', Wade has a vision of Vanessa in the afterlife; she says that his heart is not the right place yet, leaving Wade confused. Colossus arrives at the now-destroyed apartment and brings a dismembered Wade back to the Xavier Mansion in an attempt to recruit Deadpool into the X-Men and help him get through his grief.

Cable, a cybernetic mutant in the future, is standing over his killed family and he travels to the past to get revenge on the killer or to stop his family from ever dying by the killer's hand.

In the present, Deadpool eventually agrees to join the X-Men and, together with Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, responds to a situation involving a young mutant named Russell Collins, who calls himself Firefist, being able to produce extremely high temperatures from his fists that can ignite nearby objects. After several failed attempts to calm down Russell, Wade discovers that the headmaster and staff of the orphanage have abused him, physically, and ends up shooting one of the staff; this leads to both Deadpool's and Russell's arrest, whereupon they are restrained with collars that negate their mutant powers, including Deadpool's healing factor which means Deadpool's cancer begins to briskly kill him.

Cable arrives to Deadpool's timeline and asks a couple of people what year it is after throwing his gun into the trunk of their car. They call the question dumb, but he quickly incapacitates them with tazer shots before taking their beer and truck.

Meanwhile, Wade and Russell are taken to the Ice Box; an isolated mutant prison that houses several dozen mutant criminals, including Black Tom Cassidy, wearing the same collars.

The same night, in a motel, while watching the news, Cable uses his eye's advanced scanning and holographic capabilities to scan his many weapons and pick out the perfect pieces needed to build a better gun, then showing skills of engineering as he is able to make a new futuristic rifle using parts which are outdated for his time.

The next day, during Wade and Russell's incarceration, the facility is broken into by Cable, the cybernetic mutant from the future who has traveled to the past in order to kill Russell. Deadpool manages to throw himself and Cable out of the prison while Russell stays inside. Deadpool has another vision of Vanessa who helps him realize that he has a chance to save the boy and redeem himself for not being able to save Vanessa.

Deadpool organizes a team of other mutants with Weasel to fight Cable and save Russell, consisting of Domino, Bedlam, Shatterstar, Zeitgeist, Vanisher, and Peter (a normal human), whom he calls X-Force. Together, X-Force launch their assault on a prison truck transporting the prisoners and Russell to a new site by leaping from a plane and parachuting in, though all members other than Deadpool and Domino die in the landing due to various accidents. Domino infiltrates the truck but encounters Cable who launches his assault and tries to kill Russell. During the fight on the truck between Deadpool and Cable, Russell manages to free Juggernaut who devastates the truck and escapes with Russell. Cable decides to team up with Deadpool after realizing the Juggernaut is free and together they agree to stop Russell from killing the abusive headmaster, an act which sets Russell down a path that ends with the death of Cable's family – the reason for Cable traveling back to the past in the first place. Deadpool agrees to help Cable if he gives him thirty seconds to talk to Russell to try to prevent him killing the headmaster.

Deadpool, Cable, and Domino arrive at the orphanage to stop Russell and the Juggernaut but face difficulty fighting the latter, who proves too powerful for them. However, Colossus arrives and distracts him long enough for Cable and Deadpool to catch up with Russell. Cable and Deadpool manage to reach Russell before he has a chance to kill the headmaster and Deadpool tries his best to talk him down; even putting on the collar to halt his healing factor and offer himself in the headmaster's place. Cable takes a shot at Russell, but Deadpool leaps in front of the bullet and is shot in the heart. After an extended and long death scene, Wade finally dies and succeeds in saving Russell, who loses his desire for revenge, and succeeds in saving Cable's family in the future; evidenced by the formerly-burned teddy bear Cable has been carrying returning to normal. Deadpool's death allows him to reunite with Vanessa, though she once again tells him that it is not yet his time. Feeling remorseful, Cable travels back in time to just before the fight and discreetly places the skee-ball token he had previously taken from Deadpool over his heart, stopping the bullet that would have otherwise killed him. The headmaster is run over by Dopinder following some additional anti-mutant remarks.

During the mid-credits, Deadpool has Negasonic Teenage Warhead and her girlfriend, Yukio, repair Cable's time-travelling device to allow him to perform several tasks, including saving Vanessa and Peter from their deaths, shooting dead X-Men Origins: Wolverine’s version of Deadpool in an effort to "fix the timeline", and finally actor Ryan Reynolds after he reads and approves the movie script for the Green Lantern film.

Cast

• Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool, Cain Marko/Juggernaut (voice) and Himself
• Josh Brolin as Nathan Summers/Cable
• Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle
• Julian Dennison as Russell Collins/Firefist
• Zazie Beetz as Neena Thurman/Domino
• T.J. Miller as Weasel
• Leslie Uggams as Blind Al
• Karan Soni as Dopinder
• Brianna Hildebrand as Ellie Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead
• Jack Kesy as Black Tom Cassidy
• Eddie Marsan as The Headmaster
• Shioli Kutsuna as Yukio
• Stefan Kapicic as Piotr Rasputin/Colossus (voice)
• Randal Reeder as Buck
• Nikolai Witschl as Daniel Frye
• Thayr Harris as Sergei Valishnikov
• Rob Delaney as Peter Wisdom
• Lewis Tan as Shatterstar
• Bill Skarsgård as Zeitgeist
• Terry Crews as Bedlam
• Brad Pitt as Vanisher
• Paul Wu as Hong Kong Boss
• Robert Maillet as Sluggo
• Alan Tudyk as Redneck #1
• Dickie Greenleaf as Redneck #2
• Michasha Armstrong as SWAT Captain
• Joe Doserro as Bus Driver
• Hayley Sales as Cable's Wife
• Islie Hirvonen as Hope
• Jag Arneja as Tree Trimmer #1
• Gerry South as Tree Trimmer #2
• Mike Dopud as Prison Guard
• Luke Roessler as Cereal Kid
• Andy Canete as Neighbor #1
• Tanis Dolman as Neighbor #2
• Eleanor Walker as Neighbor #3
• Hunter Dillon as Branding Boy
• Sala Baker as Russell Collins/Firefist
• Sonia Sunger as Irene Merryweather
• Paul Wernick as News Cameraman
• Rhett Reese as News Helicopter Pilot
• Abiola Uthman as Chinook Pilot
• Tony Bailey as Black Tom Gang Member
• David Cook as Priest
• Alex Kliner as Park Bench Couple
• Elaine Kliner as Park Bench Couple
• David Leitch as Ground Church Mutant and Cain Marko/Juggernaut (on-set motion capture)
• Alicia Morton as Vocalist on 'Tomorrow'
• Fred Savage as Himself (Once Upon a Deadpool only)

Uncredited

• Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers/Cyclops
• Alexandra Shipp as Ororo Munroe/Storm
• Kodi Smit-McPhee as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler
• Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy/Beast
• Evan Peters as Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver
• James McAvoy as Charles Xavier/Professor X
• Hugh Jackman as Wolverine (archive footage)

Appearances

Locations

• New York
• X-Mansion
• Canada
• Ice Box

Events

• Assault on DMC Convoy
• Battle at the Essex House
• Deadpool's Time Travels

Items

• Mutant Inhibitor Collar
• Time Slider
• Cable's Customized Rifle

Organizations

• X-Men
• X-Force
• Department of Mutant Containment

Mentioned

• Angel

Production

In September 2015, producer Simon Kinberg said that a sequel for Deadpool is in development. In February 2016, Ryan Reynolds told IGN that he would like to portray his character for the rest of his life. Also, during the same month, the film was greenlit three days before the first film's release, and Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick already signed on to return, and while director Tim Miller isn't attached just yet, Fox is hoping to bring him back in order to reunite the creative team who have made this first film.

Ryan Reynolds has expressed interest in Deadpool having a boyfriend saying "I love that about Deadpool. I love that he can break any boundary. In the future, I hope we get to do that more...I certainly wouldn’t be the guy standing in the way of that. That would be great."

In June 2016, Kinberg said that a completed draft from Wernick and Rheese was expected "soon", and that they were looking to begin filming the sequel at the beginning of 2017. By August, Kyle Chandler was believed to be in the running to portray Cable. Testing of actresses for Domino had also begun by October, with the shortlist of actresses under consideration including Lizzy Caplan, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Sienna Miller, Sofia Boutella, Stephanie Sigman, Sylvia Hoeks, Mackenzie Davis, Ruby Rose, Eve Hewson, and Kelly Rohrbach. The producers were particularly interested in casting a black or Latina actress in the role.

It was reported that Deadpool 2 will be released on January 12, 2018, following the release of Logan.

In October 2016, Miller was no longer part of the sequel due to creative differences with Reynolds over the casting of Cable and the film's direction, either a raunchy comedy or a stylized superhero movie. The rift between the pair was reportedly based on several factors, including Reynolds' expanded creative control over the sequel; Miller's wish for a more stylized follow-up than the first film, versus Reynolds' focus "on the raunchy comedy style that earned the first movie its R rating"; and Miller's intention to cast Chandler as Cable, which Reynolds opposed. Fox ultimately backed "its marketable star" over Miller, who had made his directorial debut with the first film. Miller denied these reported reasons, while Reynolds said, "All I can really add is that I'm sad to see him off the film. Tim's brilliant and nobody worked harder on Deadpool than he did". A week after Miller's departure, Fox was looking at David Leitch, Drew Goddard, Magnus Martens, and Rupert Sanders as potential replacements for the director. Leitch was the "strong frontrunner" for the role, and signed on to direct a month later. Reynolds, a fan of Leitch's John Wick, said the director "really understands those Deadpool sensibilities and where we need to take the franchise from here." He added that Leitch "can make a movie on an ultra tight minimal budget look like it was shot for 10–15 times what it cost.

Despite the initial release date of January 12, 2018, it was then reported that Deadpool 2 was pushed to back to March 2, 2018.

In November 2016, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Leitch will direct the sequel.

Reese and Wernick had completed multiple drafts of the script by January 2017, and "It’s taken different twists and turns, but it’s really coalescing"; the film was still on track to begin filming that year. The pair felt a responsibility to explore the team X-Force, which includes Deadpool, Cable, and Domino in the comics, with Reese saying the sequel's purpose "is not to set up X-Force [but] it will likely set up X-Force. He did clarify that though the film will be "populated with a lot of characters...it is still Deadpool's movie". The pair confirmed that Stefan Kapicic's Colossus, Brianna Hildebrand's Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and Karan Soni's Dopinder would be returning from the first film to "make at least an appearance", and that the film would not be exploring the details of Cable's convoluted comic origins.

By February, it had been noted that there had been few announcements from Fox regarding the film, and that a release date had not yet been set which was seen as unusual for sequels to popular films (often studios "announce sequels far too soon and with no idea what will happen"), with the issue deemed to be the film's script. Reynolds, Reese, and Wernick had been "bunkered down, working on the script together, trying to cross the finish line and create something everyone is excited to make", and now Goddard was joining the project to consult on the script.

By the beginning of March, Michael Shannon had been in the running to portray Cable, but no longer could due to a scheduling conflict. David Harbour had screen-tested for the role, and Pierce Brosnan was believed to be in negotiations for a part in the film, potentially Cable. Reynolds announced shortly after that Zazie Beetz had been cast as Domino. Later on in the month, Shannon was in the running to portray Cable again, and was considered the frontrunner, with Fox also looking at a shortlist of other actors that included Harbour. Brad Pitt had also been considered for the role, and expressed interest in taking it on, but had "moved on". Leitch soon addressed the potential casting of these actors, saying Shannon "would make an incredible Cable...If that happens, I would be through the roof"; and on Pitt, "We had a great meeting with Brad, he was incredibly interested in the property. Things didn't work out schedule-wise. He's a fan, and we love him, and I think he would've made an amazing Cable". At the end of March, Morena Baccarin confirmed her return from the first film as Vanessa Carlysle, and expressed interest in exploring the character's Copycat persona from the comics in the sequel.

Josh Brolin emerged as a "surprise contender" to play Cable in April, ahead of Shannon and Harbour, and was officially cast in the role. Leslie Uggams confirmed that she would be reprising her role of Blind Al from the first film, while Fox gave the sequel a June 1, 2018 release date.

In May, Fox was reportedly looking to use a post-credits scene at the end of Deadpool 2 to introduce several other members of X-Force who would go on to star alongside Reynolds, Brolin, and Beetz in an X-Force film. Casting for the characters-Sunspot, Feral, and Shatterstar-would take place over the coming months, though Reese denied the accuracy of this report. Later on in the month, T.J. Miller confirmed that he would return from the first film as Weasel, and described the sequel as "even more weaselicious" than the first. He noted that Reynolds and the writers had "really put the time in on the script" to meet their own expectations for the sequel as well as those of fans. Jack Kesy also joined the cast, as Black Tom Cassidy.

In June, Shioli Kutsuna was cast in a key role for the film. Initial filming began on June 17, 2017, at Hatley Castle in Canada, which is used to portray the X-Mansion in the X-Men films. Principal photography began in Vancouver on June 26, under the working title Love Machine, with Jonathan Sela serving as cinematographer for the film. At the end of the month, Ryan Reynolds revealed that Julian Dennison was an additional cast member for the film.

The next month, July, T.J. Miller said that he found the sequel to be funnier than the first film, and that "it’s not going to be the same movie in a different location [like The Hangover Part II]. It’s got different stakes, different things happen, some pretty tragic, dark shit happens in the first part of the film, in the beginning, and the rest of the film is kind of dealing with that". By then, Kapičić had been working with Leitch on the set, and expected to continue contributing to Colossus through to April 2018.

On August 14, during filming, stunt woman Joi "SJ" Harris died in a motorcycle accident after losing control and crashing into Shaw Tower. Harris, the first African-American female professional road racer, was working on the film as a stunt performer for the first time and had only joined the production a week before. Harris was not wearing a helmet because the character she was portraying, Domino, does not wear one in the scene, and there had not been time since she joined the film to create one for her to fit underneath the Domino wig. She had two full days of rehearsing the stunt as well as five more attempts on the day of the accident. Veteran stunt double Melissa Stubbs had been available and willing to do the stunt, but the inexperienced Harris was preferred due to her skin color being a match for Beetz. This decision was criticized by multiple stunt professionals, with many noting that Harris's experiences racing motorcycles did not necessarily qualify her as an able stunt performer. Production on the film was shut down immediately after the incident, but resumed two days later. With this news also came reports that the film's crew were "enduring very long hours" and were "exhausted by the schedule", with a member of the studio confirming that some days had gone beyond the scheduled 12–13 hours filming, up to 15–plus–hours.

At the end of August, Eddie Marsan revealed that he was on set for a role in the film. Filming in Vancouver was expected to last in Vancouver until October 6, with production on Deadpool 2 being officially completed on October 14.

The first teaser poster, which pays homage to Norman Rockwell's 1943 painting Freedom from Want, was released in November. Justin Carter of Comic Book Resources found it "oddly appropriate for Deadpool 2 to co-opt [this] iconic work for a modern pop culture audience" as it is "true to Deadpool's incredibly referential nature." Diaz of Nerdist said, "It strikes exactly the irreverent tone you'd expect for the Deadpool sequel". Fox revealed on November 15, that the film was technically untitled at that point, and not officially known as Deadpool 2 as had been assumed; the studio was temporarily referring to the film as "Untitled Deadpool Sequel". On the same day, a teaser trailer for the film was officially released, with the trailer also paying tribute artist Bob Ross. After the trailer was released, Stefan Kapicic revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that Negasonic Teenage Warhead is now a full-fledged member of the X-Men, as described in his statement "She's progressing, as you can see. She is not my trainee anymore".

In early-mid December, a second teaser poster teased a name, "The Second Coming". The poster itself was a parody of Michelangelo’s "The Creation of Adam" painting, with Deadpool portraying Adam, and Cable portraying God.

On January 11, 2018, the film was moved up to May 18, 2018, two weeks before it’s initial release date: June 1, 2018. Towards the end of January, Collider reported that the first official trailer for Deadpool 2 will be playing in theaters attached to Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, which hits theaters on February 16th. Additionally, Fox plans to release the Deadpool 2 trailer online on Valentine’s Day.

In February, during the week of the Super Bowl, a new trailer for the film was released later that week, focusing on introducing Cable. Terry Crews was revealed to have a role in the film, the character Shatterstar was confirmed to be appearing, and the production returned to Vancouver for six days of reshoots under a new working title, Daisy.

At the beginning of March, the Deadpool 2 standees that were on display at movie theaters hinted at the film's potential title. While some reports emerged by mid-March claiming that the reshoots were due to poor audience responses during test screenings of the film, and consisted of sweeping changes, the film was soon confirmed to be testing better than the original did, up to 98 out of 100 over three different tests (compared to a maximum score of 91 during tests of the first film). Because of this, the reshoots were adding more of the elements that audiences responded positively to, including additional material featuring Cable and Domino. By the end of the month, two hours-worth of filming had taken place in Los Angeles for a then-secret cameo appearance, and the film's first full trailer was released on March 22. Officially titling the film Deadpool 2, the trailer also revealed that Crews was portraying Bedlam; that Rob Delaney was in the film, portraying Peter; and that Bill Skarsgård also had a role. At the end of the month, it was confirmed that Lewis Tan will be portraying Shatterstar. The mutant, Zeitgeist was revealed to be one of the characters featured in the film as part of the X-force. Following the release of the new Deadpool 2 trailer, it has been heavily speculated that Julian Dennison will be portraying the mutant Rusty Collins, aka Firefist.

Videos

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Trivia

• While fighting Juggernaut , Deadpool  mockingly recites "Hey, big guy. The sun's getting real low" the mantra used to calm down the Hulk.
• The sound that Cable 's gun makes when recharges is the same sound the T-1000 makes as it walks through the hospital cell door in Terminator 2:Judgement Day(1991).
• When Domino debuted in the New Mutants comic books, she was actually Deadpool's girlfriend, Vanessa, in disguise for several issues. In the comic books, Vanessa is the mutant Copycat who can shape-shift and mimic other people, similar to Mystique. She posed as Domino to infiltrate X-Force while the real Domino was held prisoner. This resulted in Domino holding a grudge against both Deadpool and Vanessa.
• (at around 1h 24 mins) Juggernaut mentions that the reason he wears his helmet is because his brother can read his mind. This is a reference to Juggernaut being a step-brother to Professor X in the comic books.
• A taxi sign promotes a travel agency called Alpha Flight. In the Marvel comics, Alpha Flight is a team of Canadian superheroes who have major dealings with the X-Men.
• When Cable uses his time slider to go to a point of time he already exists in, he merely brings his current memories into his body at that time, revisiting the premise of Days of Future Past (comic and movie).

• In the movie, the orphanage is named Essex. This is a reference to long time X Men villain Mr. Sinister, also known as Nathaniel Essex . At one point, Mister Sinister ran an orphanage that he used to manipulate young mutants.
• When Negasonic Teenage Warhead repairs Cable's time slider, Deadpool calls her 'Eleven'. A nod to Stranger Things character Jane 'Eleven' Hopper to hint at the similar hairstyle. (NWT's hair in the last movie).

• The Deadpool mask is animated when Deadpool is talking. In order to give the visual effects artists at Weta something to work with, Ryan Reynolds  performs each scene once without the mask, so his face is entirely visible for the effects teams to use as a foundation when animating the mask itself. Reynolds says acting in the mask is about 20-30% bigger than he would normally be, so the performance comes through.
• The X-Men mansion set they used was the same mansion in Victoria, British Columbia that was used as a shooting location for X2: X-Men United (2003).
• In Deadpool and Firefist's cell in the Ice Box, the name "Ricky Baker" is carved into the wall behind Firefist's bed. This was Julian Dennison's previous starring role in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Music

Song title	Artist	Location(s)
Mama Said Knock You Out	LL Cool J	The Final Trailer
Ashes	Celine Dion	Opening credits.
All Out of Love	Air Supply	Opening scene.
X Gon' Give It to Ya	DMX	Deadpool on top of a building in Hong Kong ready to take out his next target.
9 to 5	Dolly Parton	Action montage of Deadpool's "world tour".
Papa, Can You Hear Me?	Barbra Streisand	Wade Wilson and Vanessa Carlysle watch Yentl.
Nobody Speak	DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels	X-Force recruitment.
Thunderstruck	AC/DC	The X-Force skydive out of the plane, though Bedlam, Shatterstar, Zeitgeist, Peter and Vanisher are killed.
Escape (The Piña Colada Song)	Rupert Holmes	Cable arrives to present day and meets two men who are listening to this song on the back of their truck.
Bangarang	Skrillex feat. Sirah	Deadpool and Cable fight in the prison.
Tomorrow	Alicia Morton	Cable flashes back to a slow-motion sacrifice scene.
Welcome to the Party	Diplo, French Montana, Lil Pump & Zhavia Ward	Deadpool, Domino, Cable and Dopinder go to confront Firefist and Juggernaut.
Only Time	Enya	Juggernaut causes destruction.
Yun Hi Chala Chal	Udit Narayan, Hariharan & Kailash Kher	Plays in Dopinder's car.
Take On Me (MTV Unplugged – Summer Solstice)	A-ha	Deadpool talks with Vanessa Carlysle.
If I Could Turn Back Time	Cher	Deadpool cleans up the timeline
We Belong	Pat Benatar	End credits.
Deadpool Rap (X-Force Remix)	TeamHeadKick	End credits.
Welcome to the Party	Diplo, French Montana, Lil Pump & Zhavia Ward	Deadpool, Domino, Cable and Dopinder go to confront Firefist and Juggernaut.
Fight Dirty	Guignol & Mischief Brew	(Super Duper Cut) Deadpool fights against Juggernaut.
Caribbean Blue	Enya	(Super Duper Cut) Deadpool enters the bathhouse in Osaka and starts killing everyone.
Love Hurts	The Osborne Brothers	(Super Duper Cut) Deadpool's suicide montage.
Fly Like an Eagle	Steve Miller Band	(Super Duper Cut) Deadpool pretends to boombox with his phone to Colossus and when Colossus come to Wade's aid in slow motion.