Deadpool Boss Found an Unethical Loophole to Bypass WGA Ban on Ryan Reynolds' Improvisation
While the Merc with a Mouth was recently stripped from his strongest weapon, Deadpool's creator claims that he figured out how to take care of the problem.
The Writer's Guild has been on strike for over a month now, and to make their demands more powerful, the Guild is applying pressure on the current movie and TV series productions.
Many shows and films are stalling because of the WGA strike, and some of the already undergoing projects became very restricted.
This specifically goes for the long-anticipated Deadpool 3: since the movie's lead actor Ryan Reynolds is also one of the writers, he's falling under one of the Guild's restrictions that bans him from making any changes to the script.
While this wouldn't have been a problem for many other movies, for Deadpool, it's a tragedy.
One of the strongest aspects of the Deadpool franchise is Reynolds' ability to improvise.
The majority of the funniest moments in the first two entries were the product of Ryan's improvs and random interactions with other members of the cast.
The actor's used to throwing in any funny line he comes up with on the spot, pretty much like his character, and watching what comes out of it — and with Ryan's great sense of humor, these sudden improvs typically improve any scene.
Now, Ryan Reynolds won't be able to do that as the WGA ban prevents him from making any changes to the script: the actor will have to strictly follow it.
But just when it seemed like all hope was lost and the Merc with a Mouth was turned into Just a Merc, Deadpool's creator came up with an idea on how to bypass the ban.
"I keep reading all this 'Oh no, Ryan Reynolds can't improvise on DP3 stuff…' You know that he's wearing a mask and that in post-production he can ad-lib like crazy. ADR is where really fun bits happen," Rob Liefeld wrote on his Twitter.
Many of the fans cheered at his notion; others pointed out that while such a solution would allow adding more quirky one-liners for Deadpool in the post-production, it will still not fix the issue of Reynolds' inability to interact with the rest of the cast in the ways that are not suggested by the script.
There's also another issue that immediately arises here.
Ryan Reynolds is famously supporting the WGA strike, and it would appear unethical to use such loopholes to bypass the Guild's restrictions while claiming to be its supporter.
On the other hand, the quality of Deadpool's final entry is at stake… So it's a tough choice.
At this point, we can only wait and see whether Reynolds and Liefeld use this scheme to add new lines in post-production. Still, it's nice to know that such an option even exists.
Source: Rob Liefeld on Twitter