Now thatDeadpool 2is in theaters,Ryan Reynoldssays his team “dropped the ball” on naming the sequel. Knowing Reynolds' sense of humor, he’s more than likely just kidding around, especially since the titleDeadpool 2is pretty refreshing in the current landscape of movie titles.Solo: A Star Wars Story? While he admits that they went “lazy” with the title, the initial reviews and fan reactions have been overwhelmingly enthusiastic aboutDeadpool 2, so they must be doing something right.
In a new interview, Ryan Reynolds talks about coming up with the title ofDeadpool 2and even shares some of the titles that didn’t make the cut. Obviously, they’re all pretty awesome, but they’re also really long. The short and succinct title was definitely the way to go for theMerc with a Mouth’s second outing. Reynolds explains.
“I would say the biggest thing that we dropped the ball on is just calling itDeadpool 2. You know, I think we could’ve done something more to distinguish ourselves from Deadpool 1. But we definitely went back and forth about a hundred different subtitles… Escape From Unicorn Mountain, Escape From Josh Brolin’s Pants, all kinds of crazy things, but yeah, we ended up with just sort of going with lazyDeadpool 2.”
Escape FromUnicornMountain would have been a pretty fitting title and one is led to believe that title was in the running. Plenty of promotional material forDeadpool 2as well as the first movie have featured unicorns. Ryan Reynolds was even recently on a South Korean game show, where he was singing disguised as a unicorn. So, the unicorn theme works a lot better than Escape From Josh Brolin’s Pants.
Josh Brolin has been out doing his fair share of promotingDeadpool 2, which took place directly after the promotion ofInfinity War. Brolin and Ryan Reynolds have been professing their love for each other on talk shows over the last few weeks and really seems like thetwo actors really hit it offwhile filmingDeadpool 2. Even when the two were seated together and forced to rip on each other, they both were too nice to go too deep and cut the other with a deep insult.
Deadpool 2is officially now in theaters and it looks like it’s going to make a lot of money over the weekend. However, the aforementioned movie with a long title,Solo: A Star Wars Storyhits theaters next week, so it will be avery interesting showdownto see how everything pans out. AStar Warsmovie will undoubtedly come in at number one next weekend, but by how much will it beatDeadpool 2? We’ll just have to wait until next week to find out. In the meantime, you’re able to check out the rest of the interview with Ryan Reynolds and his thoughts on the title ofDeadpool 2atCinemaBlend.
