Robert Downey Jr was supplied a cameo in Deadpool and Wolverine however turned it down.
The movie’s writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick revealed in an interview with IndieWire that they tried to have Downey Jr return to the Marvel franchise to cameo as Tony Stark/Iron Man.
It was later introduced that he could be making a shock return to the franchise to play Dr Doom, one in every of its greatest villains, within the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Reese and Wernick have been unaware that this was within the pipeline.
The scene they wished Downey Jr was close to the start of the movie. Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) used Cable’s time machine to leap over to The Sacred Timeline so as to attempt to develop into one of many Avengers. Deadpool has a gathering with Joyful Hogan (Jon Favreau), who rejects him as a result of he’s too self-centered for the Avengers. The writers wished Downey Jr within the room for that scene, however stored it because it nonetheless labored with out him.
“Ryan Reynolds wrote the scene with each of them, so within the hopes we might get Downey,” Reese mentioned. “However he additionally wished Favreau, as a result of they’re an ideal combo, they usually have been all within the scene collectively.”
“Behind the scenes, we didn’t know in regards to the Physician Doom,” added Wernick. “And there’s no method he was going to do each. After which we mentioned, ‘Oh, Downey doesn’t say no to Ryan Reynolds, does he? Nobody says no to Ryan Reynolds.’ And Ryan gave him the onerous press. We wrote scenes, and Downey learn the scenes, however what we didn’t know behind the scenes was this Physician Doom factor.”
“I imply, look, we might’ve beloved to have Downey,” Reese mentioned. “However, on the similar time, I believe Marvel had this ace of their gap, which is he’s about to return again on this completely different character. So, to have him be Tony Stark? Figuring out that Physician Doom was approaching the heels of that? It simply didn’t make sense.”
At one level, the writers toyed with the concept of getting all the Avengers within the room, which might later contain Deadpool “[dressing] all of the Avengers down in a method solely Deadpool might do.”.
“He was going to get mad and principally assault every one in every of them in a vicious sort of method,” added Reese.
The concept was additionally floated that Rob Delaney’s Peter could be within the room with Deadpool, which might result in the joke of Deadpool not having the ability to decide up Thor’s hammer however Peter having the ability to do it with ease.
“Peter casually picked up Thor’s Hammer within the background,” Reese mentioned. “That was the joke. Initially, Peter accompanied him there. There have been by no means screenplay pages, nevertheless it was the concept of the scene. I bear in mind pitching that he was going to attempt to get Captain America to swear. I don’t actually bear in mind an excessive amount of else by way of the main points, however yeah, he was going to decorate them down to make certain.”
In a three-star evaluation of Deadpool & Wolverine, NME wrote: “Regardless of the A-list distractions (no spoilers right here), Deadpool & Wolverine is admittedly all about Reynolds and Jackman. In truth, it’s actually all about Reynolds – with Jackman doing a heroic job of taking part in the surly straight man attempting to maintain up with Reynolds’ sweary killer clown. The primary two Deadpool movies have been humorous and violent and authentic, however this one reveals Marvel’s most gloriously inappropriate superhero at his perfect and worst.”
