As self-aware and wise-cracking as he is, there was no way the Merc with a Mouth was going to make his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and not poke fun of the billion-dollar franchise. That said, director Shawn Levy was still surprised by how many jokes he and co-writer Ryan Reynolds got away with in Deadpool and Wolverine.
"I presumed that someone would make us stop," the filmmaker, who also penned the threequel with Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells, tells GamesRadar+ and Inside Total Film. "Every time we turned in a draft of the script, or a new cut of the movie, Ryan and I would kind of sit back, waiting for what we thought was the inevitable pushback… and it never came."
