Here's how the Deadpool & Wolverine opening fight sequence was created and it was the stunt team's idea

Wade Wilson's (Ryan Reynolds) dream came true with Deadpool & Wolverine when he teamed up with Logan. While he meets the Wolverine variant later in the film, he had to work with the original one—well, at least whatever remained of him. But that doesn't go without saying that Wade made Logan's clanking skeleton work his fingers to the bone.

The entire opening sequence was a masterclass, with the stunt team bringing that to fruition. Alex Kyshkovych, the Deadpool stunt double, describes this process in a behind-the-scenes documentary, The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine, which is a part of the anthology docuseries Marvel Studios: Assembled.

Fate for the film was decided on the day Marvel announced the return of the Wolverine, and that happened as it went on to become the eleventh billion-dollar entry in the long-running franchise. But it was the humor and performances of the leads more than the plot that took it to that level.

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Deadpool & Wolverine's stunt team became quite the doctor's team

Shawn Levy, who directed Deadpool & Wolverine, was talking to Alex and asked him to describe the entire process that brought the 'Bye Bye Bye' scene to life. And he explains it like this:

"First step for us was just, you know, going to a little shop, buying a skeleton, multiple of them. Peeling it apart, looking at it on the ground and see how do you k*ll people with different parts of the skeleton? I tried doing the full body skeleton first, see how it breaks, and then taking each bone and see how we can k*ll and I'll grab a guy and we'll start choreographing different moves.'

There's a whole lot to this; in fact, this is part of a 10-minute section that is entirely focused on how all of it came into fruition. George Cottle, second unit director of the film, mentions that a stunt team of 25 practiced for weeks to get it right. They literally took the idea of 'first impression is the last impression' seriously. And it paid off.

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What happens in the opening sequence of the film?

This particular fight sequence in Deadpool & Wolverine had a buildup that led to all of it. Long story short, he knows that his timeline is deteriorating following the death of Earth-10005, his home, Logan. Desperate, he finds his adamantium-coated skeleton in his grave, which we last saw in Logan (2017).

Now hopeless, he couldn't do anything, so we see him expressing himself to Logan's skeleton, given that Logan is of no help, which turns out to be wrong as he leverages the remains to his advantage. The TVA arrives and asks him to surrender, and the fight ensues.

The unexpected team-up ends with Deadpool using the adamantium skeleton to its fullest to paint the snow red. The happiest moment arrives at this sequence's very end, given where he wears the iconic Wolverine claws, which sort of made him the Wolverine for a brief moment.

Interestingly, the death of Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine gave birth to the concept of anchor beings. Anchor beings are basically the core of any Marvel universe Earth, where if he/she dies, their universe will start dying with them. That fundamentally explains Deadpool's desperation to resurrect Logan in the film.

While the concept of anchor was being brought to fruition, it likely took up the room that another character, namely Molecule Man, was supposed to occupy. He was essentially the same as the death of Molecule Man in the comics, which begins a countdown to that universe's death.

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