Ryan Reynolds’ Original ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Plan Was to Shoot It Under the Disguise of an ‘Awful’ Fake Movie, Then ‘Five Minutes in the Marvel Logo’ Appears

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Ryan Reynolds joined his “Deadpool & Wolverine” co-star Hugh Jackman on the latest episode of “Hot Ones” and revealed a wild scrapped plan for their Marvel tentpole.

Reynolds said that he was “shocked that we managed to get through” the making of “Deadpool & Wolverine” without “some of our biggest surprises” leaking online.

While a lot of the pre-release buzz on the movie has been devoted to the cameos in the movie, Reynolds dropped an even bigger bombshell about his first plan for the film. “The original idea with this movie was to shoot a fake movie called ‘Alpha Cop,’ that was intentionally bad…I even had one of the posters made.

It was about two guys that were sharing one brain and together they make the perfect cop.” Reynolds said the poster tagline for “Alpha Cop” read: “Two cops, one brain, all balls.” The idea appears to have been to cast Reynolds and Jackman in the fake movie “Alpha Cop” and have them film “Deadpool & Wolverine” instead in secret.