Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard won’t see ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ — despite their big ‘Like a Prayer’ scene

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Patrick Leonard would be flexing right about now — after “Like a Prayer,” the 1989 smash that he co-wrote and co-produced for Madonna, was featured in an epic sequence in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” the MCU franchise flick that just raked in $205 million for the eighth-best opening of all time.But Leonard — who also collaborated with the Queen of Pop on such definitive hits such as “Live To Tell,” “Open Your Heart” and “La Isla Bonita” — isn’t hyped up about the hoopla that led Madonna to license the song for the movie after an in-person plea from Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds.“That’s cool,” he shrugged when asked about “Like a Prayer” taking audiences around the world there again in the superhero bromance.In fact, Leonard won’t be hearing his song, in all its gospel-charged glory, on the big screen.

He has not seen — and has no intentions to see — the film.“What year was that? 1989? So we are coming up on 40 years,” said Leonard, 68. “I would not even venture a guess as to how many thousands of hours of music I’ve written and recorded [since then].

And so if I were to … hold on to anything, it would totally affect what I’m going to do tomorrow, what I’m going to do today.”Today, Leonard — who has also worked with everyone from Elton John and Fleetwood Mac to Pink Floyd and Leonard Cohen — is all about his own new album, “It All Comes to Down to Mood.” It’s only his second LP — and first since 1997’s instrumental “Rivers.”But on this eclectic, 16-song set, Leonard is the master of his own musical moods.“This is the only [album] I’ve ever done where I’m just writing all the songs and singing to myself,” said Leonard. “If I can’t open up in it, I don’t want to do it anymore.