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Ryan Reynolds Became Deadpool More Than 10 Years Before The Movie

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Summary

  • Reynolds’ connection to Deadpool goes back to 2004 when a studio exec saw his resemblance to the character and recommended him for the role.
  • Reynolds fell in love with Deadpool after reading the comics, feeling like it was destiny for him to play the character on screen.
  • Reynolds’ dedication to the Deadpool role paid off, turning the character into a household name and creating a successful billion-dollar franchise.



Thnks to his movie appearances, Ryan Reynolds is now synonymous with Deadpool around the world. And for good reason, as Reynolds’ personality and comedic skills have been a perfect match for the Marvel character, with the live action adaptation creating a billion-dollar franchise.

As fate would have it, Ryan Reynolds actually became Deadpool in the comics much sooner than he did in the movies. Back in 2016, Reynolds explained in an interview with Talks At Google that a rival studio’s executive first planted the seeds of a Deadpool performance in his mind in 2004. After the executive saw his performance as Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity, his similarity to Wade Wilson aka Deadpool elicited an instant recommendation: “Trust me, if they ever make a movie about Deadpool, you’re the only guy who can play Deadpool.


Deadpool and Wolverine from the MCU.

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To demonstrate that point, the executive followed up by sending Reynolds a batch of Deadpool comics. When the Canadian actor read his first issue, he found himself referenced inside, and soon fell in love with the character immediately:

So he sent me over all these comics, and I’m not a big comic book guy, but I really gravitated toward Deadpool. I fell in love with Deadpool. The first issue I opened up, I’m not making this up, I was on the panel. Like in the comic, it said Deadpool was saying “I look like a cross between Ryan Reynolds and a shar-pei.” And I was thinking, Jesus, this is f***ing destiny.



Deadpool Was Always Meant To Be Played By Ryan Reynolds

Cable and Deadpool #2 by Fabian Nicieza and Mark Brooks

Deadpool Shar-pei

That comic book was Cable and Deadpool #2 by Fabian Nicieza and Mark Brooks from 2004, a full 10 years before Reynolds leaked test footage online, and 12 years before the first Deadpool film would be made. As Reynolds stated, the book actually makes a reference that Wade Wilson looked like a cross between “Ryan Renolds” and a Shar-Pei. Now, spelling aside, it’s a clear reference to the actor and it’s pretty incredible it was Reynold’s first experience with the character.


Is it possible the studio executive intentionally gave Reynolds a comic that featured the actor being referenced inside? Sure. However, that executive saw the connection between Reynolds and Deadpool and smartly introduced him to the character. While Reynolds wouldn’t truly play the Merc with a Mouth for another decade (forgetting he played an infamously butchered version of Deadpool in the critically-panned X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009), it’s a fantastic story that set the stage for Reynolds falling in love with Deadpool. The whole thing might be one big coincidence, but as Reynolds said, it might have been destiny.

Ryan Reynolds Has Catapulted Deadpool To A Household Name


While Deadpool was already a popular character, Ryan Reynolds managed to make him known by the average moviegoer. Deadpool is now nearly as well known as MCU mega-stars like Iron Man and Captain America, and it’s entirely due to the success of Deadpool, a character that Ryan Reynolds simply refused to give up on. Reynolds worked harder than anyone expected just to play Deadpool on the big screen. He was finally given his chance in X-Men: Origins, but it was an infamously bad adaption, and it seemed like he’d never get a second chance.

Unhappy with the horrid version of the character he had to play, Reynolds tried for years to get a fully-fledged Deadpool movie made, but studios simply weren’t ready to take the risk on a big budget R-rated superhero movie, when something like that simply hadn’t been done before. Despite their hesitance, Reynolds still managed to film test footage for the proposed movie, and when Fox still wasn’t convinced, the test footage somehow appeared online. This resulted in a massive positive response from the fans and Fox was finally convinced, bringing comic fans and moviegoers like one of the best comic franchise movies in Deadpool.




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