Robert Downey Jr was supplied a cameo in Deadpool and Wolverine however turned it down.
The movie’s writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick revealed in an interview with IndieWire that they tried to have Downey Jr return to the Marvel franchise to cameo as Tony Stark/Iron Man.
It was later introduced that he can be making a shock return to the franchise to play Dr Doom, one in all its largest villains, within the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Reese and Wernick have been unaware that this was within the pipeline.
The scene they wished Downey Jr was close to the start of the movie. Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) used Cable’s time machine to leap over to The Sacred Timeline with a view to try to grow to be one of many Avengers. Deadpool has a gathering with Comfortable Hogan (Jon Favreau), who rejects him as a result of he’s too self-centered for the Avengers. The writers wished Downey Jr within the room for that scene, however saved it because it nonetheless labored with out him.
“Ryan Reynolds wrote the scene with each of them, so within the hopes we may get Downey,” Reese mentioned. “However he additionally wished Favreau, as a result of they’re a fantastic combo, they usually have been all within the scene collectively.”
“Behind the scenes, we didn’t know concerning the Physician Doom,” added Wernick. “And there’s no manner he was going to do each. After which we mentioned, ‘Oh, Downey doesn’t say no to Ryan Reynolds, does he? Nobody says no to Ryan Reynolds.’ And Ryan gave him the laborious press. We wrote scenes, and Downey learn the scenes, however what we didn’t know behind the scenes was this Physician Doom factor.”
“I imply, look, we might’ve cherished to have Downey,” Reese mentioned. “However, on the identical time, I feel Marvel had this ace of their gap, which is he’s about to return again on this completely different character. So, to have him be Tony Stark? Understanding that Physician Doom was approaching the heels of that? It simply didn’t make sense.”
At one level, the writers toyed with the thought of getting all the Avengers within the room, which might later contain Deadpool “[dressing] all of the Avengers down in a manner solely Deadpool may do.”.
“He was going to get mad and mainly assault every one in all them in a vicious type of manner,” added Reese.
The thought was additionally floated that Rob Delaney’s Peter can be within the room with Deadpool, which might result in the joke of Deadpool not with the ability to decide up Thor’s hammer however Peter with the ability to do it with ease.
“Peter casually picked up Thor’s Hammer within the background,” Reese mentioned. “That was the joke. Initially, Peter accompanied him there. There have been by no means screenplay pages, however it was the thought of the scene. I keep in mind pitching that he was going to attempt to get Captain America to swear. I don’t actually keep in mind an excessive amount of else when it comes to the main points, however yeah, he was going to decorate them down to make sure.”
In a three-star evaluation of Deadpool & Wolverine, NME wrote: “Regardless of the A-list distractions (no spoilers right here), Deadpool & Wolverine is admittedly all about Reynolds and Jackman. The truth is, it’s actually all about Reynolds – with Jackman doing a heroic job of enjoying the surly straight man making an attempt to maintain up with Reynolds’ sweary killer clown. The primary two Deadpool movies have been humorous and violent and unique, however this one reveals Marvel’s most gloriously inappropriate superhero at his highest and worst.”
