8 Shocking Differences Between Leaked Deadpool Screenplay And Movie

2. The Recurring Amy Winehouse Gag

The Deadpool screenplay was written back in 2010, so this would have likely been removed even if Amy Winehouse hadn't tragically died in 2011, but she is for some reason a recurring joke throughout the screenplay. As well as betting on each other in the "Dead Pool", the mercenaries all places wagers on when the singer is going to die, and the movie frequently jumps to showing her in various precarious situations as she's shown falling over drunk and very nearly getting killed on a number of occasions. It isn't until the after-credits scene though that we see Winehouse's death when she gets hit by a double decker bus near Trafalgar Square. The movie then finally wraps up with Deadpool saying, "And you woulda thought an overdose." Again, it's not exactly hard to see why this was dropped and why they didn't replace the singer with any number of other troubled well-known personalities currently in the tabloids. The whole thing just feels unnecessarily nasty and dark, and once again points to this much earlier version of Deadpool being a lot less fun to spend time with.