‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: Read The Screenplay For The Marvel Mash-Up That Everyone Wanted
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest films today shines the spotlight on the marvel that is Deadpool & Wolverine, the superhero mashup that paired Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in the third installment of the Merc with the Mouth movie series, and marked the first Deadpool movie at Disney‘s MCU (“There was a whole boring rights issue, blahbity-blahbity-blah,” Deadpool himself says in the script’s opening pages).
Like the first two pics — 2016’s Deadpool and 2018’s Deadpool 2, both from Fox — Deadpool & Wolverine hit (and sliced and otherwise pummeled) the spot for fans who had been calling for the antihero team-up.
Released at the end of July, it became the biggest R-rated opening of all time both domestically ($211 million) and worldwide ($444.1 million), eclipsing the mark set by the first Deadpool.
It eventually became the year’s second highest-grossing film to date (after Inside Out 2) with $1.34 billion in global box office.
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