Ryan Reynolds has taken to Instagram to bid a fond farewell to Deadpool’s 20th Century Fox days, both the good and the bad, with an image from July 2015 of many of the people who brought it to life.
Reynolds shared a message on Instagram alongside the previously mentioned image, saying “he wouldn’t trade” those days for anything.
“This isn’t just Deadpool saying ‘Oh, Hello’ to the MCU,” Reynolds wrote. “It’s Deadpool – and Hugh, Shawn, and me – saying farewell to a place and an era that literally made us. We are forever grateful to the fun, weird, uneven and risky world of 20th Century Fox. It was our origin story and we wouldn’t change it for anything. And thank you to Kevin Feige and Disney for allowing us to share it.”
The image above includes many of the biggest stars from 20th Century Fox’s comic book film run, and even some who never made it to the big screen in those days, including Channing Tatum. We get a look at some of the cast of the X-Men films and Fantastic Four, including Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Michael B. Jordan, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Munn, Oscar Isaac, and more.
As many remember, Disney completed its buyout of 21st Century Fox in 2019 for $71.3 billion, which brought X-Men, Deadpool, Fantastic Four, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and so many more under the Disney umbrella.
While Deadpool & Wolverine pokes fun at 20th Century Fox (and the MCU!), it’s important to remember many jobs were lost in the transistion and many of those films, even if they aren’t the most well-regarded, laid the foundation for everything today we love about comic book and superhero movies.
In our Deadpool & Wolverine review, we said it is an “is an outrageous, consistently funny superhero comedy that succeeds largely thanks to the contagious enthusiasm of leads Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, and a surprisingly classy perspective on superhero movie history.”
For more, check out our 10 biggest burning questions after watching Deadpool & Wolverine, our explainer of the film’s ending, and our chat with Feige on the state of the MCU.
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