657 - Deadpool with Ryan Reynolds
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig welcome back Ryan Reynolds for an in-depth look at his creative process bringing the character of Deadpool to the screen.
As co-writer, producer and star of the Deadpool franchise, Ryan leads us through his first introduction to the character, the rough journey getting to greenlight, and the challenges presented by an often-faceless protagonist. Along the way, they talk tone and dialogue, collaboration and rule-breaking, respect and irreverence, and the importance of listening to the movie. Ryan also has some writing questions for John and Craig.
In our bonus segment for premium members, we look at Ryan’s flair for marketing and the creative freedom he’s found in advertising.
Links:
- Ryan Reynolds on Instagram, TikTok and X
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- He’s So Annoying by Jesse David Fox for Vulture
- Buster Keaton – The Art of the Gag by Every Frame a Painting
- TCM – Turner Classic Movies
- Ryan Reynolds Guest Programmer | TCM via YouTube
- How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral by Nilay Patel for The Verge
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- Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
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- Outro by Tim Englehard (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John. Today's episode has even more swearing than usual, so if you're in a car with your kids, this is a standard warning about that. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome, my name is John August. My name is John August. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Craig Mason. |
| 0:15.0 | And you're listening to episode 657 of script notes, |
| 0:18.0 | a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:23.6 | Deadpool and Wolverine has become the highest grossing R-rated film in history. |
| 0:28.3 | Today on the show, we welcome back |
| 0:29.8 | its co-writer, producer, and star, Mr. Ryan Reynolds. |
| 0:33.4 | Oh, hi. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome back, Ryan. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, very nice to be here. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:37.6 | So last time you were here was early pandemic, and it was you and Phoebe Waller Bridge. |
| 0:42.7 | We talked about the fourth wall and sort of tapping on that class. |
| 0:46.2 | And looking back to the transcript, I think really what happened is we were all so spent in |
| 0:50.7 | with Phoebe Waller Bridge that we didn't really ask you a lot of questions about stuff. |
| 0:55.2 | We were mostly just staring at Phoebe Waller Bridge. |
| 0:57.1 | I could just spend the rest of my life just listening to Phoebe Waller Bridge. |
| 1:00.9 | Just insight ideas, just like the level of like a |
| 1:04.7 | Serbia gorgeous wit that pours out of that person is pretty special. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah she was fantastic but you know what she's here today, so it's all about you. |
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