Deadpool “could have been even worse” in X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE According to Scott Adkins

Fans were pretty pissed at how fan-favorite Marvel character Deadpool was handled The Origins of the X-Men: Wolverine. It started out great with Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson, but when the character was turned into Deadpool, he looked nothing like the character. He’s still crazy to me, that was the direction they went with the character and that someone (Tom Rothmann) thought it was a great idea.

Well, it turns out the version of Deadpool in that movie could have been worse! I don’t know how it gets worse than that, but Scott Adkins, the actor and martial artist who played that Deadpool monstrosity at the end of the movie, talked about how things could have been even more dire. He shared his experience of him working on the film in an interview with CB saying:

“I know I was part of the problem with the first, you know, version of Deadpool. But I was just doing what I was told… Ryan wasn’t even there when we shot the Deadpool stuff, I, I think he was out to do something else. When he saw what they were going to do, he must have been really annoyed, really annoyed. But I was just like, ‘Wait a minute.’ Because I went down there thinking I was going to be full costume and all. But there were other versions of that character where I was dressing up and coming out of terrible things too. It could have been even worse. Um, don’t throw anyone under the ‘bus”.

He continued to tease how it could have been worse saying:

“Imagine Deadpool with a fish bowl on his head. Yeah. But listen, they were looking at some ideas and luckily they didn’t go with that one.”

My goodness. It makes you wonder how these people in Hollywood actually get into the positions they’re in to make these kinds of decisions. It makes me sad because I’ve always wanted to produce films!

Liev Schreiberwhich he also starred in The Origins of the X-Men: Wolverine as Victor Creed aka Sabertooth recently gave an interview where he addressed the film and mentioned how happy he is to see that Reynolds was able to correct the Deadpool character. He said:

“I mean, Ryan did a great job with that transition [to the Deadpool movies], because I felt that was, in many ways, so antithetical to who that character was in Origins. But I’m glad Ryan was able to correct that mistake.”

Reynolds did a great job with Deadpool, unfortunately the character had to go through one of the worst possible scenarios before he got where he needed to be.