This post contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine. Logan co-writer Michael Green called Marvel‘s Deadpool & Wolverine “nothing but complimentary” to his 2017 film.
While Logan, the last film in the Wolverine trilogy, sees the Adamantium-clawed hero die, the latest film’s opening scene features Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) resurrecting his corpse to fight off a squadron of Time Variance Authority officers. “People had warned me ahead of time, ‘Uh, I don’t know how you’re gonna feel about the opening [of Deadpool & Wolverine],'” he told IGN in an interview. “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.” Logan, also co-written by James Mangold and Scott Frank, ends with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) dying in his daughter Laura’s (Dafne Keen) arms.
Meanwhile, the new Marvel installment, which has now become the highest-grossing R-rated movie globally, opens with a fight sequence that has Deadpool using the remains of Wolverine’s metallic skeleton as a shield, all set to NSYNC‘s ‘Bye Bye Bye’.
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