How Deadpool Ended Up With A Creative And Funny Title Sequence

Deadpool is one of the most inventive comic book films to have graced the silver screen. Details about the conception and development of the film have gradually been revealed following the movie's release. By now, we already know that several funny scenes in the movie were both accidents and scripted.

Well, another scene that's not unintentional was the parts frozen car accident, but the title sequence where the Deadpool cast and crew are introduced via creative and funny names had apparently not been planned.

Blur Studio Layout director Franck Balson was at the Silicon Valley Comic Con when he was asked how the movie ended up with the hilarious opening sequence.

Balson revealed (via Comicbook.com):

The idea for the title sequence was actually already in the script from the very beginning, at least the main part: frozen moments in the middle of this f***ed up car accident. The one thing that wasn't in there – originally, the titles were supposed to be actual titles, with actual actors' names and stuff like that.

Apparently, the funny titles had been placeholders at the beginning. Balson continued:

Very early on in the process, Ryan was the only one who had been cast at that moment, and we started working on the pre-vis for the whole film; we started working on that sequence because it was going to define that whole car chase.

It needed to finish exactly in this freeze-frame moment and look good. We looked at different ways to put the guys, and were just going, ‘Okay, that's a really cool thing to have.' At the time, since we didn't know who was going to be in the movie, I was like, ‘okay, what do we have? So we have the Hot Chick, the bad guy, the CGI character,' and just put all those names in there.

In the end, when it was time to make a final decision on what the final sequence would look like, the Deadpool heads – director Tim Miller, producers, and writers – liked the titles.

Balson explained:

When we started replacing the names, [director] Tim [Miller] was showing it to Ryan, the writers, and the producers, and they said ‘you know what? I think we're gonna go with what you had before, the one with the Hot Chick and stuff – it's funny!' And that's how that got in the movie!

He went on to say though that the writers came back to help make the sequence funnier.

Director Tim Miller has said recently that Deadpool 2 doesn't need to "go bigger" to be successful. I'm expecting to see something new added to the sequel's title sequence though – big or not.

Deadpool is now in theaters.