"If you go back and look at our emails after the test footage was made in 2012, we had said back and forth, 'How do we leak this? How do we get the groundswell support from our fans?' When it finally leaked in 2014 and got the reaction we hoped for, we were like, 'Here it goes!' This is confirmation we are not crazy to be passionate about this. "Oh my god, we were absolutely thrilled," Paul Wernick, one of the film's writers, told Variety.
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The creative team behind the movie isn't shy about their love of the leaked footage, however. He says he's "70 percent sure" he didn't do it. The list of suspects is short: Ryan Reynolds himself claimed it was either Tim Miller, who directed the film, Rhett Reese or Paul Wernick, the film's writers. "The problem is the footage was owned by Fox so it was kind of illegal. "Here's the thing, the fans freaked out and overwhelmed Fox, and Fox basically had to greenlight the movie," Reynolds said.
Everyone loved the footage, and the film went into full production.
We, like just about every other outlet concerned with pop culture, ran the story. This test footage that we shot then sat on the shelf for four years, as it does, they didn't do anything with it, then just a little under two years ago it leaked, accidentally, onto the internet." "We developed the script six years ago, wrote this fantastic script, it leaked online, Deadpool fans went nuts for it, so the studio granted us a small amount of money to make test footage. "I've been trying to get it made for 11 years, which is crazy," star Ryan Reynolds said in an interview with Jimmy Fallon. The film spent a significant amount of time in the show business version of development hell, and it took someone leaking early test footage before the movie itself was given a green light and a budget. The R-rated Deadpool film was released today, and surprise! It's worth seeing.