The makers of “Deadpool” used a trick to save on the film’s budget

The first Deadpool movie was a box office success $782 million, and the threequel “Deadpool and Wolverine” earned impressive $1.3 billion.

Ryan Reynolds has undoubtedly succeeded in turning the story of a fast-talking mercenary into a multi-billion dollar franchise, with each film making many times its budget.

At the same time, when Reynolds and director Tim Miller first showed their work for the first film to the producers at 20th Century Fox, the idea was treated with great suspicion.

Yes, Reynolds was still able to convince them to make a blockbuster, but the studio only gave 58 million dollars This forced screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to heavily rework the script.

But thanks to the reduced budget, the film produced one of the best scenes in the franchise’s history.

At the end of the film, as Deadpool and Colossus prepared to battle Ajax, fans watched in delight as the mercenary gathered his weapons for the final confrontation with his foe.

But the action scene with all these weapons never happened – Deadpool forgot his bag with the weapon in the taxi. This funny detail made many laugh, but no one in the audience even suspected that Miller and Reynolds simply did not have the money for all these pistols and machine guns.

Yes, in the original script Deadpool didn’t forget his bag in the taxi and fought Ajax fully armed. Due to the fact that the budget of the film was reduced from 64 million to 58 million, the writers had to cut the scene in such an interesting way.