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Ryan Reynolds had ‘scary fights’ during Deadpool edit to get it right

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Ryan Reynolds has revealed that ‘Deadpool’s’ editing was beset with “scary fights” as the creative team tried to get the film just right.

Reynolds made this admission to GQ after he was named the magazine’s 2016 Man Of The Year, which is mostly down to how ‘Deadpool’ stormed the box office when it was released earlier this year.

But Reynolds has now admitted that making ‘Deadpool’ didn’t come without its challenges, which was mostly down to how intensely passionate everyone involved in the blockbuster was about the film.

“Making the movie was very, very difficult. It was the most passionate group of individuals I’ve ever worked with in my life,” Reynolds admitted.

“And for whatever reason, that mercurial crazy burgoo of people is what made this thing work so well, not just because I had this vision and I saw it this way and it had to be this way. It worked because we all had that feeling.”

This then led Reynolds to reveal, “But there were some vaguely scary fights in the post-production process that escalated quickly. Luckily, everybody’s grown up and at the end of the day enjoys and love each other.”

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While Reynolds doesn’t mention Tim Miller by name he did go on to explain, “I know when I need to exert control and I know when I need to let go of it. I’m not gonna go and sit with Tim Miller and say, ‘The visual effects of ‘Deadpool’ need to be done this way.’ The man is a visual-effects wizard.”

“But there are character and tone things that I know really well. And I’ve also been with this thing the longest out of anybody, aside from the guys that wrote the comics … So I’m gonna be all the f*** all over it from the moment it starts to the moment it finishes.”

After ‘Deadpool’ grossed $782.6 million to become the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time back in February, Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds, as well as writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, were immediately tasked by 20th Century Fox to bring a sequel to life.

But creative differences with Reynolds over the casting of Cable and the film’s direction led Miller to leave the project last month, and ‘John Wick’s’ David Leitch is the front-runner to fill the void.

Filming on ‘Deadpool 2’ is due to start in early 2017, while it’s expected to be released in early 2018.

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