Ryan Reynolds shared that he funded Deadpool’s writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, to be on set and establish a writers’ room.
While Ryan Reynolds is currently awaiting the release of his upcoming film Deadpool and Wolverine, a sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018), he recently recalled the decade-long wait for the first Deadpool to get made. In a recent interaction, Ryan shared how he gave up his fee to bring the film to the screen. He also funded the film’s writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, with the “little salary” he had left so they could be on set and create a writers’ room to ensure that the film’s sarcastic comedic writing came through.
Ryan also explained the reason behind Deadpool’s success and how ‘too much money’ always hampers creativity. “It was a lesson in a couple of senses. I think one of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and money, and that movie had neither time nor money. It really fostered focusing on character over spectacle, which is a little harder to execute in a comic-book movie. I was just so invested in every micro-detail of it and I hadn’t felt like that in a long, long time. I remembered wanting to feel that more — not just on Deadpool, but on anything,” he said.
