When the internet first head that Deadpool 2 was scheduling reshoots, they were either worried or excited about what that might mean. Some were worried that it meant the film was terrible; others, like me, were excited that they might be reshooting T.J. Miller’s scenes. However, Collider editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub, citing his sources who were at Fox’s test screenings, says that the reshoots were actually scheduled because initial audiences loved the characters of Cable (Josh Brolin) and Domino (Zazie Beetz) and wanted more.
“Both crowds in these screenings said they love Josh Brolin as Cable, they love Domino, but that they would like to see more of both characters in the movie,” said Weintraub. “This is obviously not talking about other things that we’re not allowed to talk about … The two main things were Cable, Domino, everyone loved both characters, they wanted to see more.”
“So when everyone in an audience gives notes and says, ‘We want more Domino, we want more Cable,’ the smart play for the studio is, especially in the competitive summer, ‘Okay, how can we do that? how can we add these characters?’ So what happened was in February or whenever it was, they did additional photography, where, guess what, they added Cable, or more Cable and they added more Domino. And so that’s the main thing about the additional photography. There was no trainwreck.”
Obviously, I’m super excited that audiences loved Domino. (And good for Cable, too, I suppose.) We need more women of color in our superhero films, and she deserves to be celebrated.
But the most pressing question for me is pretty clear: if we’re already scheduling reshoots, why don’t we get rid of accused sexual assaulter T.J. Miller while we’re at it? Back in January, when she was asked whether they would remove Miller from the film, 20th Century Fox producer Lauren Shuler Donner told Rotten Tomatoes, “We’re in the final editing. I don’t think so.” Given that they’ve now decided on reshoots, I think they have the perfect opportunity to address the issue.
(via ScreenRant; image: Fox)
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