Then one day, one among the key personnel (Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and two screenwriters — Rhet Reese and Paul Wernick) had decided to
leak a test footage on the Internet, and boy, it made comic book fans go nuts.
Not exact matches
While star Ryan Reynolds has remained somewhat mum
on the subject, what is known is that someone
leaked test footage of the movie online.
Instead, it took
leaked test footage in July 2014 and a final push from fans to convince Fox to take a risk
on the merc with a mouth.
But a
leaked spool of
test footage was greeted by fans with open arms, and convinced 20th Century Fox to move forward
on the hard R rated superhero epic.
That
test footage sat
on a shelf at Fox for four years, then about a year and a half ago, somebody accidentally
leaked it
on the Internet... And it just went nuts.
Deadpool could be considered «the little screenplay that could,» floating around Hollywood for nearly a decade before finally coming to fruition based, in large part,
on the quality of the
leaked script and
leaked test footage.