{"id":209063,"date":"2025-09-08T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209063\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:00:09","slug":"ryan-reynolds-fesses-up-to-leaking-deadpool-test-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209063\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Reynolds Fesses Up to Leaking ‘Deadpool’ Test Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The big reason we have a\u00a0Deadpool\u00a0film trilogy<\/a> is because of leaked test footage<\/a> for the first movie back in 2014. It\u2019s since become generally agreed upon that leading man Ryan Reynolds probably had something to do with it, and now the actor himself has gone and said he leaked it, yeah.<\/p>\n

Talking to Entertainment Weekly<\/a> at TIFF, Reynolds said the leak may have been \u201ccheating,\u201d but done with the best of intentions. \u201cI think I was onto something that people would be interested in,\u201d he told the outlet. As he and director Tim Miller went about shooting the footage, Fox became squirrely about doing an R-rated superhero movie starring an obscure character, particularly one they\u2019d already done badly once before.<\/p>\n

For Reynolds, the appeal of Deadpool was that he wasn\u2019t an upper-tier character, and his fourth wall-breaking self-awareness. \u201cIt was kind of new,\u201d he said of the character\u2019s demeanor. \u201cThe test footage\u2026really was a case study of how this could work. And they just wouldn\u2019t do anything with it.\u201d When said footage leaked, he recalled thinking about \u201cthe asshole [that] leaked it, and I\u2019m looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth. And I\u2019m like, \u2018Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!\u2019 But the internet forced the studio to say, \u2018We\u2019re gonna make this movie,\u2019 and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the first\u00a0Deadpool,\u00a0Reynolds has become a key creative force in the character\u2019s live-action outings, which have gone on to make a lot of money<\/a> and help start a wave of R-rated superhero material. Now, people know Deadpool like they do Spider-Man (and both may be in the next Avengers movies<\/a>), and has become the actor\u2019s definitive role. So congrats to Reynolds for his foresight and hustle?<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The big reason we have a\u00a0Deadpool\u00a0film trilogy is because of leaked test footage for the first movie back…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,101516,114827,171,7644,4519,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-209063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-deadpool","10":"tag-deadpool-and-wolverine","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-marvel","13":"tag-ryan-reynolds","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115166212013886632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}