The Making Of Deadpool, Part. 5 – A Star Is Born!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
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🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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After years of fits and starts, The Deadpool film footage is leaked and the film is finally given the green light! It’s off to Vancouver to shoot the tightly budgeted film that will change the game for comic book adaptations! The set visits! The Hall H debut! The test screenings! The fan premiere! The record breaking opening weekend! Rob gives his first hand account on all of the details behind the birth of a worldwide phenomenon!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Rob Observations. I'm Rob Leifeld taking you on this journey of comic books, pop culture, and everything in between. It is one big, juicy comic book pop culture enchilada, and we're going to get right into it, take a juicy bite, and go down the road that will lead us to the end of our |
| 0:23.1 | multi-episode journey, the making of Deadpool I have tried to answer as many of your questions |
| 0:28.7 | as I possibly can that I have heard from you guys over the years on the convention circuit |
| 0:33.5 | at the comic store signings online. I've tried to take you from the very beginning, |
| 0:38.7 | from constructing Deadpool, from the ground up, where the inspiration came from inside my head, |
| 0:45.8 | the personality that I had crafted for him, the backstory, the origins, the characters |
| 0:52.5 | that inspired him from Boba Fett to snake eyes to the movie Twins. |
| 0:57.4 | His incredible reception, how you guys blew him up immediately causing us to go back and update |
| 1:05.8 | how and when we were going to use him because you guys had spoken and the fans you guys just |
| 1:12.1 | went nuts for him and then of course we went into the merchandising and how he has been rocking |
| 1:17.3 | toy shelves game shelves for 30 plus years and then uh this will wrap our walk back over the journey |
| 1:24.9 | the very strange and twisted journey to get him onto movie screens. |
| 1:31.1 | And so we had walked all the way through the development process in part one and gone through |
| 1:39.1 | how he had emerged from Wolverine Orig with with a lot of favor because fans love |
| 1:46.3 | Deadpool they loved Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool how Ryan really kind of test drove that entire |
| 1:50.9 | character in 2004's uh blade uh blade three and when he uh his his his his amazingal as hannibal in that movie and uh and and he |
| 2:04.7 | was a natural fit and of course the the deadpool that we saw in wolverine origins in the end |
| 2:10.1 | did not kind of live up to snuff they knew it they wanted to get it right i was fortunate to be |
| 2:15.1 | there from ground zero the people the the the fine the, the, the, the, the, find folks at Donner Productions, Lauren Schuller Donner, Derek Hoffman, |
| 2:22.0 | the entire crew welcomed me in from breaking an idea, a story, story ideas, and, and, and, uh, |
| 2:32.1 | and eliminating other, other paths that probably shouldn't have gone down. |
| 2:35.8 | It was a great opportunity for them to then go and get some of the best writers in the business. |
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