Deadpool Trailer 2 Breakdown: 40 Things You Need To See

39. The City

As director Tim Miller told Empire, the idea of Deadpool's setting is €˜a pre-post apocalyptic Detroit€™.
"...The idea was that it should look like a sh*tty place because you want to set Deadpool and his world apart as something different: grittier, nastier, you know, more like Daredevil where it's down in the streets where he€™s dealing with small-time sh*t that the X-Men and their shiny hi-tech world don€™t deal with."
So while the city does look impressive in the wide shots...
Close up it's a lot more grubby...
And it's falling apart...
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