‘Logan’ Co-Writer Calls ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Opening Scene “A Huge Compliment”

This post contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.

Logan co-writer Michael Green called Marvel‘s Deadpool & Wolverine “nothing but complimentary” to his 2017 film.  

While Logan, the last film in the Wolverine trilogy, sees the Adamantium-clawed hero die, the latest film’s opening scene features Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) resurrecting his corpse to fight off a squadron of Time Variance Authority officers. 

“People had warned me ahead of time, ‘Uh, I don’t know how you’re gonna feel about the opening [of Deadpool & Wolverine],'” he told IGN in an interview. “I’m like, ‘I think I know what’s gonna happen.’ And I did not know! I didn’t know they were gonna go that far.”

Logan, also co-written by James Mangold and Scott Frank, ends with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) dying in his daughter Laura’s (Dafne Keen) arms. Meanwhile, the new Marvel installment, which has now become the highest-grossing R-rated movie globally, opens with a fight sequence that has Deadpool using the remains of Wolverine’s metallic skeleton as a shield, all set to NSYNC‘s ‘Bye Bye Bye’.

Green continued, “You weren’t meant to take seriously that they were, like, digging him up, and that it was really him. It felt less like they were trying to change the ending of Logan as they were contending with not feeling that they wanted to make a movie as good as they felt Logan was, which is a huge compliment! I felt like it was nothing but complimentary.” 

The writer added that he was grateful to the film for not making any digs at the infamous box office disappointment that was 2011’s Green Lantern, also starring Reynolds and co-written by Green. 

“You know what I appreciate even more was no  Green Lantern jokes because I was partly responsible,” he joked. “You gotta wear it with a badge of honor!”

Ultimately, Green gave his stamp of approval to the way the Marvel Studios superhero flick continued Logan‘s legacy: “[Deadpool & Wolverine was] such a good time. I mean, when we saw it in a full theater, people went bananas to everything. It’s great. It’s a great franchise, like, more, please!”