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“I read at least 100 issues of the comics while I was writing with Ryan and prepping the movie,” Levy began. “I don’t know that I understood or ever quite knew with full-fluency about the Deadpool Corps. That was in one of the very first comics, when I asked Marvel to just bury me in comics. And they did, and I would just read them all the time. As soon as I saw the Corps, I knew, ‘Wow, if we can find a story reason to bring all these Deadpool variants into the movie, that would be an interesting twist in the third act.’ So, that’s what we did and that came straight from the comics.”
Deadpool & Wolverine Unite On A Prayer
Elsewhere in that same podcast, Deadpool & Wolverine star Ryan Reynolds offered his take on the introduction to that scene. The actor explained how the Madonna song “Like a Prayer” was something he had in mind all the way back in Deadpool 2. When he presented this idea to the rest of the creative team, it really resonated and provided a perfect moment for both the trailer and the catharsis of Deadpool and Wolverine just wrecking shop.
“I don’t even know,” Reynolds mused. “It’s like a weird thing. ‘Like A Prayer’ by Madonna. I was in my head since Deadpool 2, that exact sequence actually just not fighting the Deadpool Corps. We had to go meet with Madonna, which was kind of an amazing ‘pinch me’ moment and I sort of felt like she has some authorship over this movie just because it started with that song. The whole movie started with that one song.
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