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Ryan Reynolds Says Kevin Feige Rejected His ‘Rashomon’-Inspired Pitch for ‘Deadpool


Ryan Reynolds pitched ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ as ‘Rashomon’ story, but Kevin Feige says ‘he also pitched 25 other thoughts & ideas’

Its plot has been repurposed in a number of films and television series over the decades including “The Outrage,” “Courage Under Fire,” episodes of sitcoms like “All in the Family” and “Frasier,” and most recently in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster.” To Reynolds, he viewed using “Rashomon” as “a way to make a large-scale movie in a very small way,” but Marvel chief Kevin Feige had bigger and smaller things to worry about at the time of hearing this take. I was very much thinking about how to bring mutants and the X-Men into [the MCU], and I thought it needed to be more than just playing the hits.

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