8 Shocking Differences Between Leaked Deadpool Screenplay And Movie

8. Two Massive Action Sequences

Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick recently revealed that they had to trim $7 million from the budget before officially being given the green light by the studio bosses at Fox who were so reluctant to make the movie a reality, and among the casualties of those cutbacks were two major action sequences. The first was an elaborate motorbike chase involving dozens of other vehicles which was set to feature the Merc with the Mouth and Ajax racing across the freeway before ending up inside a house being transported on the back of a lorry. Once inside, the two characters exchange blows in pretty much every room before the truck turns over and things wrap up just like the movie with Deadpool pinning Francis to the freeway with one of his katanas. The second of these was even bigger though. Replacing that old aircraft carrier was an actual building which was the setting for a massive - and very violent - gunfight which goes on for pages and pages in the screenplay. However, that version still ends with Deadpool using the bodies to spell out "FRANCIS" when he's done. Reese has also admitted that the hero leaving his guns behind in the taxi was added in order to completely cut these scenes out, replacing them instead with that still awesome (but much cheaper) sword fighting sequence.