As Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have been warding off Deadpool 3 leaks in their own on-brand ways as they shoot the summer blockbuster on the 2024 movie schedule, it’s pretty wild to think about how far the franchise has come since its humble beginnings. Remember when a Deadpool movie was all but a pipe dream before leaked Deadpool test footage changed the superhero’s big-screen fate? Well, it’s been nearly a decade since that video went viral, and the comic book character’s creator apparently knows some top-secret information about where it came from.
Even though it was back in 2014 when the Deadpool footage was leaked leading 20th Century Fox to give Ryan Reynolds and his other collaborators the thumbs up to make the movie, we still don’t know who put out the infamous footage (which is still available to enjoy on YouTube). However, Rob Liefeld does. Per the creator of Deadpool’s words:
