Not only was Deadpool and Wolverine full of cameos of Marvel legacy characters, but there was also an army of variants for central characters like Deadpool and Wolverine.
While the show had given fans an army of Deadpools, we also got a bunch of different Wolverines around the multiverse as well; but unfortunately, not all of them were able to make the cut.
Talking to Happy Sad Confused, director Shawn Levy confirms that one Wolverine variant that didn’t make the cutting room floor was a literal wolverine. “We really really wanted an actual wolverine—the animal—and he would maul Deadpool. But we came up with that idea too late to do a convincing digital wolverine,” he explained. But even if they didn’t get to do the gag for the film, Levy continued, “That one’s in my back pocket should I need one for any sequels.”
Though the yellow and blue suit was in the center of all the marketing, the movie actually featured all kinds of variant costumes including the brown and yellow suit from the comic as well as a Wolverine with one hand from the Age of Apocalypse storyline.
Levy shares about the process of picking variants, “As we were developing that sequence, we invited everybody to pitch ideas, so that meant the Marvel Visual Development Department, that meant the storyboard artists, costume designers—and so we got this grab bag of suggestions and ended up choosing the John Burn kind of old school Wolvies in there too.
“We got this grab bag of Wolverine variants that felt so satisfying and really was a brainchild of a big group collaboration and that is the fun—to me—of making movies.”
Though there were some fans hoping that Marvel would fully reboot the X-Men, it looks like Hugh Jackman’s version of Wolverine is going to stick around for a few more years—at least until Avengers: Secret Wars.
I honestly love how Hugh Jackman embodied the character over the course of decades, but I’m honestly ready for someone new to take on the role.
Deadpool and Wolverine is now showing in theatres.
