Deadpool & Wolverine director says Blake Lively changed the ending and made cast reshoot

Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy said that Blake Lively changed the ending of the film after she gave feedback on the first cut. Blake made a cameo in the film which starred her husband Ryan Reynolds, but also got involved in some of the directorial decisions. Shawn Levy has opened up about his experience working with her on set and what suggestions she made.

The film ended with Deadpool and Wolverine’s fate being questioned after they destroyed the time ripper and suddenly disappeared from the screen. For a moment, while Matthew MacFadyen’s Paradox was delivering a speech, we weren’t sure whether the two were alive.

Shawn Levy said on the director’s cut of the film: “Credit where credit is due. It used to be that there was no suspense, that the power room blew up, and our heroes had survived.”

He continued: “It was Blake Lively who said to us, ‘you know, I’ve been with you this whole movie. I want to sit in the fear that they’re lost. Let me be in that place of suspense so the triumph of their survival is more emotional and visceral.’”

Shawn Levy said that it “really opened up a new way of thinking” about the ending of the movie and her feedback was the reason why there was a reshoot. He also said the “payoff” was “so much more satisfying.”

Furthermore, Ryan, who was also a producer on the film, said that the reshoots were done in just a day and a half. That’s criminally quick for Hollywood movies. “These kinds of movies typically involve weeks of reshoots,” he noted.

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It’s not the first time Blake Lively has worked on a film either – she had commissioned a separate cut of It Ends With Us, which was released in August this year, after allegedly falling out with her co-star Justin Baldoni. The separate cut came from film editor Shane Reid, who also worked on Deadpool and Wolverine. The Hollywood Reporter later found out it was Blake’s cut that was playing in the cinema, not Justin’s.

During the It Ends With Us press tour, Lively revealed that Ryan helped write a key rooftop scene toward the beginning of the movie. “We help each other,” the actress wrote on Instagram. “He works on everything I do. I work on everything he does. So his wins, his celebrations are mine and mine are his.”

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