The “Deadpool & Wolverine” global press tour is nearly at its end, but many of us, especially K-pop fans, can reminisce on how Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman met up with Stray Kids on their Korea stop. Reynolds was a big fan of their Deadpool inspired music video, so a meet up between the two was inevitable. But the collaboration didn’t stop there, as the eight-member music group will also have a song on the soundtrack. As exciting as that sounds, Renyolds also dropped some news that Stray Kids was supposed to have a small part in the film but that never came to be because of logistical issues.
ThatsItLA had a chance to join the Deadpool & Wolverine virtual press conference, where Reynolds, and co-stars Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin and Matthew Macfadyen, along with director Shawn Levy, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, and executive producer Wendy Jacobson talked about the making of the film.
While the cast and crew answered questions about the impact “Deadpool & Wolverine” will have on the MCU and some of the secrets only Fegie knew about the first set of X-Men films, I asked about what inspired them to add Stray Kids on the soundtrack, and here is what Reynolds had to say:
“I’ve kind of tangentially known them now a little bit better than before, but for years. It’s more to do with Korea. South Korea understands how to make gigantic global impressions in culture, through film, through music, art of any kind. There’s something about whatever the wind is blowing through Seoul and its surrounding areas that just is sticky to culture. K Pop is certainly one aspect of that. Years ago, the Stray Kids, we just call them kids, they did a they did a Deadpool inspired music video, which I saw, which I thought was phenomenal, and then I reached out to one of the members, and he and I kind of became sort of fast digital friends, and now we’ve met in person. And so, yeah, that was that.”
After becoming fast digital friends, Reynolds had planned on having Stray Kids cameo in the film, but with the writers and actors strike, along with timing, it was just “logistically impossible.” Here’s the full quote:
“The initial plan, I’ll say, I’ve never said this out loud before, the initial plan was to have them appear in the film, but it was just with the strike happening in the middle and so many other issues. It was became logistically impossible. And I just will never forget the look on our line producers face when I said that there are eight of them.”
Levy notes that a “Deadpool” soundtrack is all over the place, and doesn’t quite make sense on paper, but when you hear it in the film, it makes sense. So the inclusion of Stray Kids will be justified. “I’ll just piggyback and add that a Deadpool soundtrack is always unique. It’s something that is so Ryan based his taste is all over the place, and Deadpool movies always have a soundtrack that makes no sense on paper because it’s so diverse and disparate, but it just feels right in the movie,” And the soundtrack of this one, which includes our track from Stray Kids, is no different.”
“Deadpool & Wolverine” opens in theaters on July 26, 2024.
