It yook years for the Deadpool movie to get off the ground.
We look at how the Deadpool movie changed from the original script.
This article is full ofDeadpoolspoilers and probably wont make any sense unless youve already seen the movie.
Deadpoolspent the weekend breaking just about every box office record that an R-rated movie can break.
You have to call this a success.
It took years of prodding to get Fox to greenlightDeadpoolwhen it seemed like a hopeless cause.
Too bad theyll never make this!
I dont know why I was yelling.
2010 was a crazy time.
After seeingDeadpool, I decided to look back and reread the old script.
So now I share with you all the changes that came in the last six years.
Before I get to the bullet points, I should note that the basic structure is the same.
Id be here all day if I mentioned every single miniscule change, though.
The dialogue has been punched up a lot, mainly because thats what rewrites are for.
Certain one-liners and exchanges are very different.
Honestly, its for the better.
He gets all pumped up and says, Yo, Adrian!
I meant Rocky Dennis.
Anyway, lets get this started.
Ajax begins the movie being released from prison and being picked up by his men.
Yes, hes already been brought to justice.
Thats why Deadpool had to wait so long to get his hands on him.
He hasnt been spending all that time searching through informants.
He simply has had to wait it out so Ajax could get released.
Youd think Deadpool would want to spring some kind of chaotic prison breakout instead of sitting on his hands.
Dopinder the cab drivers situation is a little more positive.
Hes actually engaged to the woman of his dreams, mainly due to lucking out on an arranged marriage.
The insinuation being that Deadpool will pay him back for the cab rides via murder.
The scene with the pizza guy is a bit darker.
Wade doesnt simply intimidate the kid.
He viciously beats him up.
Afterwards, he and the homeowner proceed to enjoy the pizza and watch TV together.
The sweet scene of the teenage girl thanking him and calling him a hero is nonexistent.
The description makes it sound like he wouldve been played by Sam Elliott or someone like him.
Deadpool closes it out by saying, And you woulda thought an overdose.
from the trailers).
She seems pretty half-baked.
While that is completely valid, shes still a massive improvement over the earlier vision.
The final version of Vanessa may be two-dimensional, but the 2010 version of Vanessa is straight-up one-dimensional.
Shes so barebones originally.
She doesnt stand up for herself against Fat Gandalf.
The playful bit in the arcade is gone, going straight to the sex.
Even the initial disgust at seeing his face is kind of glossed over and she shrugs it off.
They might seem trivial on their own, but they make a mountain of difference.
Eh…yeah, that was probably for the better to get rid of that.
Obviously, this is a budget-based edit.
See, Deadpool calls the helmeted guy Francis a bunch and we never see his face.
Then in the flashbacks we meet Ajax.
A twist that the jerk hes after is the one guy who was a jerk to him.
It doesnt really have much of a punch to it.
Theres a montage of Wade attempting to find a cure for his cancer through more unique channels.
Traveling the world, desperately following leads, all while his condition worsens.
He ends up killing the doctor and tears out his beating heart while asking for a lollypop.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead doesnt exist at all in the original screenplay.
Colossus just straight-up appears.
They dont even have the scene of him watching the news while eating cereal.
Angel Dust is another character who doesnt exist originally.
Wyre is the one with the habit of keeping a matchstick in his mouth.
Kane and Wyre were mainly dropped for budget reasons.
One thing Wade keeps doing during the painful experiments is repeat, Am I a superhero now?
in the style of the very outdated cell phone commercials.
He shows up at Wades side after the torture montage.
He acts all good cop and tries to comfort Wade before leaving him in the darkness.
Once Wade escapes, things turn out very differently.
Police and firefighters arrive, explaining why Ajax started the movie getting his leave from prison.
Wade finds Worm (Cunningham in the final version) and kills him out of mercy.
He ends up going to the top of a building and jumps off to kill himself.
He makes various attempts on his own life but keeps surviving.
The dudes in prison.
Instead, theres a montage of Deadpool acting as a highly-skilled and very unkillable mercenary.
After certain jobs are completed, it would transform into a comic book cover.
The idea is that after 60 issues of this, five years have passed.
Its worth noting that he doesnt go after the creepy recruiter guy during this.
He survives the story.
Ajax and his crew visit Sister Margarets, but they dont simply walk out when threatened.
Wyre strangles Patch to death with his retractable wires.
When he isnt looking, Deadpool changes places with the stripper and ends up killing Wyre.
Afterwards, Deadpool sees that Vanessa is one of the strippers.
He ends up confronting her in a hotel while being entirely cryptic and never showing his face.
He cant bring himself to say who he is and leaves her to basically piece if together herself.
Deadpool ends up thinking back to memories of himself with Vanessa, back before the cancer.
Thing is, these memories are completely bupkis and most definitely never happened.
One such memory is just Wade and Vanessa reenacting the accidental naked collision bit from Reynolds movieThe Proposal.
The original script had Ajax turn that thing onbeforehe even texted Deadpool their location.
So she suffered for a long, long time.
Reminder, she still wasnt mad.
Colossus is brought in to fight Sluggo one-on-one, much like how he takes on Angel Dust.
Since Colossus has no trainee to bail him out, he beats Sluggo singlehandedly.
The original vision has the headquarters being an entire building.
Deadpool fights his way through it, guns blazing, going through 4,000 bullets.
To…new beginnings.
Whatever the hell that means.
Outside of the action stuff getting cut down because of money, its almost entirely a bunch of improvements.
Even with the action, we might be better off with what we got.
Hell, if you really want something like that to happen, just save it for the sequel.
Which were totally going to be getting.
Its so good to be a Deadpool fan right now, guys.
