‘Logan’ Co-Writer Says ‘People Warned Me’ About ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Screwing Up His Film’s Ending, but the Movie Was a ‘Huge Compliment’ Instead
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director 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. “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!
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