Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman to star in Deadpool III (2024)
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Ryan Reynolds have revealed one of their original plans for Deadpool & Wolverine was to hide it behind a fake movie called Alpha Cop.
The idea was that they would shoot the fake movie, which would have been about two cops who share one brain, and then when people went to see it, 5 minutes in the Marvel Studios logo would have popped up onscreen and Deadpool & Wolverine would have started.
I don't know if they would have ever actually been able to pull that off without word getting out what was really going on, but it would have been awesome if they did.
The idea was that they would shoot the fake movie, which would have been about two cops who share one brain, and then when people went to see it, 5 minutes in the Marvel Studios logo would have popped up onscreen and Deadpool & Wolverine would have started.
I don't know if they would have ever actually been able to pull that off without word getting out what was really going on, but it would have been awesome if they did.
In my theater seat. See you in the spoiler thread.
I could see how they might could do a version of it. Make people think the movie is going to be Alpha Cop. The internet will spoil that fact that is a Deadpool movie but then during the Deadpool movie every now and then the movie switches over to being the Alpha Cop movie. With Jackman being the Alpha Cop and Reynolds playing some comically cliche drug dealer, then the movie switches back to being Deadpool and maybe back yet again for some big showy cop battle between Alpha Cop and the drug dealer, and then of course you finish off with the movie being Deadpool towards the end. A movie within the movie so to speak.
That would have been amazing. But a logistical nightmare. How to do PR? Or merchandise? A small movie that nobody wants to see is suddenly Deadpool 3 and masses of people start scrambling outside small theaters trying to see it with larger chains having a meltdown for not picking up the film. You'd need to M Night Shyamalan proof that. Have an extremely tight network secretly work on merchandise and enforce embargoes on any per-promotional interviews done.
That would have been an amazing scheme if they could have pulled it off. It would have broken records and made it into the cinema history books.
And hell, Shyamalan only pulled it off with Split because it was a single scene. Far easier to get away with than the majority of a film with two huge stars.
Folks, avoid news sites if you want to remain unspoiled. I just noticed io9 just posted a story the spoils the best surprise cameo of the film in both headline and photo.
There's tons of spoilers floating around for this.
Apparently Marvel themselves put every actor who had a cameo in this on stage during a panel yesterday and news sites are just posting that picture all over the place.
Apparently Marvel themselves put every actor who had a cameo in this on stage during a panel yesterday and news sites are just posting that picture all over the place.
^ Yep comic-con reveals the surprise cameos
You would think, if nothing else, that Marvel would want those cameos to remain unspoiled beyond the first weekend, in case there are people who will only go to see who’s in it. Maybe they think knowing who is in it will make some fence sitters go, but I would’ve thought at least as many people will think “okay, I know who’s in it now, I don’t need to see it.”
Damn, that's crazy. Like Captaindemotion said, you'd think they would wait a week but I guess it was bad (?) timing with Comic Con and all.
Makes me very glad I went to see it this morning because I would've been pissed if I was spoiled on That Cameo.
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