Blake Lively Heavily Influenced the End of DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE and It Led to a Day and a Half of Reshoots

It turns out that the end of Deadpool & Wolverinewas heavily influenced by Ryan Reynolds’ wife Blake Lively. She offered up some notes to Reynolds and director Shawn Levy, and it led to a day and a half of reshoots.

The movie ends with Deadpool and Wolverine’s fate remaining in the air after they destroy the time ripper, and apparently, before Lively’s notes were turned in, there was no suspense in this scene.

Levy explains: “Credit where credit is due. It used to be that there was no suspense, that the power room blew up, and our heroes had survived.

“It was Blake Lively who said to us, ‘You know, I’ve been with you this whole movie. I want to sit in the fear that they’re lost. Let me be in that place of suspense so the triumph of their survival is more emotional and visceral.’”

Levy continued: “It really opened up a new way of thinking about this part of the movie and it’s why we did this reshoot… and, here, the payoff is so much more satisfying.”

Reynolds, who was also a producer in the film, said, “We did just a day-and-a-half of reshoots on the movie, which we’re very proud of. These kinds of movies typically involve weeks of reshoots. But this speech that Matthew has is one of the pieces that we reshot. And he is miraculous.”

Lively previously said of working with Reynolds: “We help each other. He works on everything I do. I work on everything he does. So his wins, his celebrations are mine, and mine are his.”

Well, it’s good that Lively offered her thoughts or the end of the movie wouldn’t have been as good as it was.

Source: Deadline