“The weird plot twist was, somehow, some way, Deadpool got reinvigorated at Fox while [Green Lantern] was happening.
Deadpool was very much a labor of love for Reynolds and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
What a lot of people don’t know is [writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick] flew to New Orleans and, while I was shooting Green Lantern, we were actually all together writing Deadpool.”
That distinction goes to 2011’s Green Lantern, which was an unmitigated critical and commercial disaster.