‘Logan’ Co-Writer Says ‘People Warned Me’ About ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Screwing Up His Film’s Ending, but the Movie Was a ‘Huge Compliment’ Instead
Screenwriter Michael Green earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing 2017’s “Logan,” which, until this year’s “Deadpool & Wolverine,” marked the swan song for Hugh Jackman’s tenure playing the iconic X-Men character. The latest Marvel film brings a different variant of Wolverine to the big screen, but not before opening with a sequence in which Deadpool digs up the rotting corpse of the Wolverine that died in “Logan” and proceeds to use his adamantium skeleton to defeat a squad of officers from the Time Variance Authority while NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” blasts on the soundtrack.
Green, who also had a hand in writing Reynolds’ infamous “Green Lantern” movie, recently spoke to IGN and revealed that he was warned about the opening of “Deadpool & Wolverine.” It appears some people in his circle thought he might take offense to Deadpool destroying Logan’s corpse, but that’s not how Green took things at all.
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“People had warned me ahead of time, ‘Uh, I don’t know how you’re gonna feel about the opening [of Deadpool & Wolverine]’,” Green said. “I’m like, ‘I think I know what’s gonna happen.’ And I did not know! I didn’t know they were gonna go that far.”
“You weren’t meant to take seriously that they were, like, digging him up, and that it was really him,” Green continued. “It felt less like they were trying to change the ending of ‘Logan’ as they were contending with not feeling that they wanted to make a movie as good as they felt ‘Logan’ was, which is a huge compliment! I felt like it was nothing but complimentary.”
Green went on to call “Deadpool & Wolverine” such “a good time,” adding: “When we saw it in a full theater, people went bananas to everything. It’s great. It’s a great franchise, like, more, please! You know what I appreciate even more was no Green Lantern jokes because I was partly responsible. … You gotta wear it with a badge of honor!”
Not screwing with the events of “Logan” was a big priority for Jackman when he decided to sign on to “Deadpool & Wolverine.”
“It’s all because of this device they have in the Marvel world of moving around timelines,” Jackman previously told SiriusXM about returning. “Now we can go back because, you know, it’s science. So, I don’t have to screw with the ‘Logan’ timeline, which was important to me. And I think probably to the fans too.”
“Logan” has such reverence among comic book movie fans that even Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige warned Jackman against returning as the character. As the executive told Empire: “I said, ‘Let me give you a piece of advice, Hugh. Don’t come back. You had the greatest ending in history with ‘Logan.’ That’s not something we should undo.’”
Watch Green’s interview with IGN in the Instagram video below. “Deadpool & Wolverine” is now playing in theaters nationwide.
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