‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Was Initially Conceived as a Deliberately Bad Film Titled “Alpha Cop”: “Two cops, one brain, all balls”

‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ is the latest release from the MCU and holds considerable significance. It marks Deadpool’s debut in the MCU, is expected to be a major box-office success for the studio, and aims to rekindle the excitement fans once felt for MCU releases.

However, bringing the film to life wasn’t as straightforward as it might seem. A few weeks ago, Reynolds revealed that the project was nearly shelved until Jackman proposed a pivotal idea that revived it. Many of Reynolds’ suggestions for the movie had been rejected by the MCU boss.

Feige admitted that Reynolds had “25 different ideas” for the film, but the Marvel boss was primarily concerned with how to integrate Deadpool and other mutants into the MCU—a task that is proving increasingly complex.

Karan Soni recently shared that one idea for ‘Deadpool 3’ involved the gang traveling to the North Pole to save Christmas. While this premise sounds amusing, it likely wouldn’t fit with Feige’s vision for integrating mutants into the MCU.

In their latest promotional appearance for the movie on “The Hot Ones,” Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds revealed another idea Reynolds pitched:

The original idea with this movie was to shoot a fake movie called “Alpha Cop,” that was intentionally bad. I had even a poster made. It was about two guys sharing one brain, and together they make an ultimate cop. And the poster says, you know, “Alpha Cop – Two cops, one brain, all balls.” And It was meant to be kind of horrible, and so you would go, like 10 people in America would go to see this movie on opening weekend, and 5 minutes into the movie the Marvel logo would flip up and it would actually be ‘Deadpool and Wolverine.’

Reynolds went on to explain that there was one major issue with this concept:

But the problem was, if you manage to get it right down to the last minute, and it gets blown, you know, it would just be heartbreaking. I don’t know, but we’ve been lucky on this one.

I have to admit that the concept sounds brilliant and would be the most quintessential Deadpool move in cinema history. What do you think of the original idea for the movie?