DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
Ryan Reynolds & Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick
& Zeb Wells & Shawn Levy
FADE UP ON:
THE MARVEL LOGO.
DEADPOOL (V.O.)
That logo music just gets you
*
pumped, right? Oh sorry, I'm just--
*
I'm excited to be here. It's been a
while.
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EXT. NORTH DAKOTA - WILDERNESS - DAY
Somewhere, more like NOWHERE...
But let's be honest, we all know where. As darkness lifts...
The iconic notes from "ONLY YOU" by The Platters are all
around us as images slowly come into view...
Grey clouds fill the sky. Lazy snowflakes flutter down onto a
light dusting of fresh snow covering the landscape.
We track low. Following familiar (but different) black and
red boots as they crush earth below. The hilt of familiar
(but different) swords glint in the winter light. This lone
red-suited figure is on a mission. The montage of tight
vignettes continue as a familiar voice welcomes us:
DEADPOOL (V.O.)
You, know for a long time I wasn't
sure I'd ever be back. Disney
bought Fox. There was a whole
boring rights issue, blahbity-
blahbity-blah. But then it turned
out they wanted me. The one guy who
shouldn't even have his own movie,
much less a franchise. Marvel's so
stupid. Look, we all saw the
trailer. We know the title of this
thing, so I know what you're
wondering. How are we going to do
this without dishonoring Logan's
memory? And I'll tell you how...
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EXT. NORTH DAKOTA - GRAVESITE - DAY
CLOSE ON: A familiar makeshift wooden CRUCIFIX, turned forty-
five degrees to form an `X.'
DEADPOOL (V.O.)
...We're not.
The camera slowly drifts back from the iconic `X', widening
to reveal an "I LIKE ME" MUG perched atop a rock.
(CONTINUED)
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Wider still now, we see chunks of dirt being flung up and out
of a hole in the ground, never seeing the source of the
earthen projectiles, just the metronomic sound of spade
impaling earth.
DEADPOOL (V.O.)
I'm going to let you in on a little
secret. Wolverine is not dead.
Sure, it made for a perfect ending
to a very sad story. But that's not
how regenerative healing factors
work. You think I want to be out
here in Butt-Fuck North Dakota
digging up the one and only
Wolverine? No thank you. But the
fate of my entire world is at
stake. He may not be living his
best life, but he sure as hell
ain't dead.
SHUNK.
The sound STOPS as contact is made. Contact with...something.
DEADPOOL (O.C.)
Well, there you are. Yes, yes, yes,
yes.
The grave-robber stands upright for the first time,
revealing:
DEADPOOL
Standing waist deep in a hole of his making. His suit is new.
Bespoke. He pokes around with the tip of his beat-up old
shovel, confirming something is under there. He vanishes down
into the hole again, furiously clearing the last layer of
earth. Fistfuls of dirt and roots go flying.
Below the frame, the sound of Deadpool's digging stops as we
sense he's found what he came looking for and it's...
disappointing.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Come on. Son of a bitch. AGHH
MOTHER-FUCKER-- MY WORLD IS FUCKED.
Deadpool throws a mini-tantrum, punching the air, knocking
over the pile of dirt. Smashing the `X' with a home-run swing
of his shovel. Breaking the shovel across his thigh and
tossing the parts into the hole, only to have the metallic
shovel-tip come bouncing right up and out back at him.
Finally exhausted, Deadpool stands upright, spins, and falls
backwards right into the hole and out of sight.
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OMITTED (MERGED INTO SCENE 4)
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EXT. NORTH DAKOTA - LOG NEAR GRAVESITE - DAY
We see Deadpool sitting. Talking. As we continue to drift
slowly past, we reveal Logan sitting beside him. They are
sitting against the very same tree where Logan died in LOGAN.
*
DEADPOOL
*
That was weird. I'm much calmer
*
now. Look, I'm not a man of
science, but you seem incredibly
passed away.
(sighs)
But it's good to see ya.
The adamantium skeleton is seated in a casual pose. Legs
folded elegantly like Cary Grant at a dinner party. If Logan
wasn't completely decayed and held together by A FEW rotting
tendons, it would look like two dudes hanging out in the
woods.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
I've gotta be honest. I've always
wanted to ride with you, Log'. You
and me, getting into it. Deadpool
and Wolverine just fucking shit up.
Can you imagine the fun? The chaos?
The residuals?
(in Australian accent)
G'day mate. There's nothing that'll
bring me back to life faster than a
big bag of Marvel cash.
(without accent)
Me too, Hugh. But no. No, no, no.
You had to get all noble and die
for real. Goddamnit, I could really
use your help right now--
The words are no sooner out of Deadpool's mouth than the air
nearby begins to glow and shimmer.
WIDE ANGLE.
A TIME DOOR APPEARS AND OPENS.
Out floods an army of MASKED MINUTEMEN from the TIME VARIANCE
AUTHORITY (TVA). Upgraded since we last saw them in `Loki.'
FULLY ARMORED and WIELDING TIMESTICKS. Ready for action.
The Minutemen take an aggressive posture. We see Deadpool pop
his head out like a gopher from behind the hill. He
disappears down below and yells from behind the knoll:
(CONTINUED)
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DEADPOOL (O.C.) (CONT'D)
WAIT! I'm warning you! I'm not
alone.
UNMASKED MINUTEMAN
Wade Winston Wilson! You are under
arrest by the Time Variance
Authority for too many crimes to
list. Come out and we'll give you
the courtesy of taking you in one
piece.
DEADPOOL
Ughhhh, death by day-player.
UNMASKED MINUTEMAN
Last chance: Throw out your weapons
and come out peacefully.
DEADPOOL
(calling to Minutemen)
I'm not gonna give you my weapons.
(beat)
But I promise not to use them.
Deadpool turns to camera and addresses us directly.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
There are 206 bones in the human
body. 207 if I'm watching Gossip
Girl.
Deadpool HIGH-FIVES LOGAN'S SKELETAL HAND. Whispers:
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Here we go. Maximum Effort.
Music CUE: NSync, "Bye, Bye, Bye".
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EXT. NORTH DAKOTA - LOG NEAR GRAVE SITE - DAY
What happens next, happens FAST:
Deadpool flies out from behind the dirt pile. Holding Logan's
skeleton by the neck.
DEADPOOL
Okay, Peanut. Guess we're getting
that team up after all.
Deadpool lands as MINUTEMEN move in on him. Deadpool looks
like a fuckin' god of war. With one jerk of his hand,
Deadpool snaps off one of WOLVERINE's ADAMANTIUM RIB BONES.
(CONTINUED)
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He throws it violently toward an approaching soldier. We
track it through the air and see it's engraved with "The
Marvel Cinematic Universe Presents."
Every few strikes we speed-ramp down so we can read the
various bones entering bodies of screaming Minutemen. An
adamantium tibia breaks through a chest plate. As it
disappears into his body, we read, "A film by Shawn Levy".
Yup... Wolverine's bones and the carnage they wreak are also
OUR OPENING CREDITS.
...Then the THIGH-BONES, which have SHIN-BONES attached via
the cadaver's TENDONS. We ramp down and zoom in to see:
Starring Mr. HUGH JACKMAN and so on...
Deadpool channels Bruce Lee, swinging the thigh/shin combos
around him like perfect makeshift NUNCHUCKS, mowing down
Minutemen like balsa wood: BOOM! CRACK! WHACK!
HELMETS go flying. RIBCAGES get cracked. FOREARMS suffer
COMPOUND FRACTURES.
Deadpool CHOKES a guy with the tendon connecting the two
bigger BONES, squeezing so hard the guy's skull pops clean
OFF.
Next, Deadpool starts ripping remaining RIBS off Logan's body
and THROWING/STABBING them into guys. MORE CREDITS left and
right. Men fly everywhere, gutted, leaking.
*
Deadpool kicks a skeleton head.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
Mullin! I'm outside the box.
Deadpool finishes with the ribs, then grabs both CLAVICLES.
The clavicles PIERCE men's joints and soft tissue. MORE
CREDITS.
Deadpool turns toward an onrushing MINUTEMAN. DP wields
Logan's PELVIS to block the timestick-wielding Minuteman,
wrenching his arm right back and making him PRUNE HIMSELF
right out of existence.
Deadpool grabs Wolverine's leg.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Come on, big fella.
As more Minutemen rush in, Deadpool reaches for...
...you guessed it...
(CONTINUED)
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...Wolverine's FOREARMS.
He widens the bone structure of the forearms and slides both
arms into them like elbow length adamantium gloves. As a
gaggle of Minutemen approach, Deadpool touches the forearm
tendon...
SHNIKT.
Ooooohhhhh yeah. CLAWS POP and we widen now to reveal
Deadpool standing, backlit, hunched over. WOLVERINE'S CLAWS
PROTRUDE menacingly from Deadpool's clenched fists.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
(to camera)
I am soaking wet right now.
Deadpool roars like a FUCKING ANIMAL... FREEZE the ACTION.
DEADPOOL (V.O.)
To be clear, I'm not proud of any
of this. The wanton violence. The
whiff of necrophilia. It isn't who
I am. It isn't who I want to be.
Who I want to be, well, to help you
understand that, I've gotta take
you back. To a simpler time.
FLASHBACKS take us back in time to...
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INT. OFFICE - DAY
*
CLOSE ON A DESK CALENDAR. It reads MARCH, 2018.
*
A CHYRON: "EARTH-616."
DEADPOOL (V.O)
I can't believe I'm finally here.
I've waited for this moment for so
long.
INSERT: ECU of WADE nervously tapping his thigh. We see
CABLE'S TIME WATCH on his WRIST.
REVEAL: Wade Wilson. No mask, hoodie. The room is LITTERED
with BUSTER KEATON'S POSSESSIONS. His ICONIC MASK. AWARDS.
Elegance.
WADE
Thank you, sir. For seeing me. I
firmly believe that my services
could be of great use to your
organization.
(CONTINUED)
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WADE (CONT'D)
Now, I know I was caught
"Smashturbating" in the lobby of
Stark Towers but I can assure you--
We finally flip the camera around and reveal the one and
only: HAROLD LLOYD, sitting behind the desk.
HAROLD LLOYD
Smashturb-- I'm sorry. What was
that?
WADE
Oh. No, I'm sorry. That's when you
get those toy Hulk Hands, right,
and then you just look down, and
you just-- you brace yourself, and
you ravage the midsection--
HAROLD LLOYD
I get it, okay. Thank you. The
picture's painted.
WADE
You get the gist.
Wade shifts uncomfortably. This ain't going well.
HAROLD LLOYD
What exactly brings you here today?
WADE
Why am I--? Wow... Okay. I care...I
know I turn everything into a joke,
but I care, and I want to use that
feeling for something important. I
want to matter. And to show my girl
that I matter. And...
Wade looks behind him.
WADE (CONT'D)
I feel like I'm wasting the good
stuff here... is the Man not gonna
be joining us?
HAROLD LLOYD
The Man?
WADE
Yeah. I should save this if he's
gonna--
(CONTINUED)
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HAROLD LLOYD
As far as you're concerned right
now, I'm the Man...
WADE
No.
HAROLD LLOYD
The Man is me. I am the Man in this
circumstance. He doesn't do this
kind of thing anymore.
HAROLD LLOYD (CONT'D)
WADE
Cameos? ...Meetings. Entry level
meetings.
WADE (CONT'D)
*
Entry level? Aren't you the
Chauffeur, maybe...?
HAROLD LLOYD
A common misconception. I did begin
my career as Mr. Keaton's driver.
WADE
Chauffeur.
HAROLD LLOYD
But quickly pivoted to the head of
security.
WADE
The head of-- yes, yes, yes.
HAROLD LLOYD
*
...And why I am vetting your
resume.
(pivots)
You seem to have left out whether
or not you had any experience as a
member of a team. Could you maybe
add a little bit of perspective
there?
WADE
Oh no, yes. Of course. I was
Special Forces, but mainly I was
*
team leader -- founder, really --
of X-Force. Sadly, they all
perished in action.
Harold writes in a FILE.
(CONTINUED)
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HAROLD LLOYD
How exactly did that happen?
WADE
Well, the police say "gravity" but
just between us they didn't test
well in the focus group, mainly
because of Cable.
HAROLD LLOYD
I see.
Harold makes another note in his file. Wade senses it is not
a good note.
WADE
Whoa, oh oh! I can see this isn't
going well. Please stop writing. I
just... Look...
Wade's eyes are wet with a burning sense of desperation.
WADE (CONT'D)
(swallows hard)
...I wanna be an Avenger.
Harold is taken aback. Puts down the pen.
WADE (CONT'D)
(emotional)
I want to be an Avenger.
HAROLD LLOYD
Why do you want to be an Avenger?
WADE
Because look around you. They're
the best of the best. And what they
do matters. I need to be an
Avenger. Sir, my girl has kind of
had it with my shtick. And if I
don't turn things around and do
something with my gifts, I don't
think it's really going to work out
*
for me, and I wouldn't blame her.
*
A beat. Harold consults Wade's file.
*
HAROLD LLOYD
*
Avengers are a very unique group of
superheroes that stand for
something more than just fighting
and wearing costumes.
(CONTINUED)
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HAROLD LLOYD (CONT'D)
I mean, people look up to us. Kids
look up to us.
WADE
I'm sorry, us? I wasn't aware that
you were an Avenger...
HAROLD LLOYD
Avengers-adjacent, technically--
WADE
Oh wow, what's your superpower? Is
it parallel parking? I'm so sorry.
That was cruel. I lash out when I'm
nervous. It won't happen again.
HAROLD LLOYD
Let's cut to the chase.
WADE
Please.
HAROLD LLOYD
You just said, moments ago, that
you wanted to be an Avenger because
you need it.
WADE
Yessir, I do.
HAROLD LLOYD
But the Avengers don't do the job
because they need it. They do the
job because people need them. Do
you see the distinction?
WADE
Yessir. Please, Mr. Lloyd. I don't
want to spend the rest of my life
like an annoying one trick pony.
*
HAROLD LLOYD
*
Alright.
Wade listens intently, eyes ablaze with heartache. Harold
stands, suggesting the meeting's end.
WADE
Oh my god. You're standing.
HAROLD LLOYD
*
Yeah, and now's the time that we
stand.
(CONTINUED)
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WADE
Damn it.
HAROLD LLOYD
(walking Wade to the door.
He puts his arm on Wade's
shoulder)
The problem might be that you're
reaching a little too high. Aim for
the middle and you'll never miss,
right? I think you've got a good
heart. I believe what you're
saying. But not everybody's the
world-saving type. I'm not. But I'm
happy, right? I found my place.
Find your place.
Wade now stands in the open doorway. Crestfallen.
HAROLD LLOYD (CONT'D)
(feels bad for the guy)
Alright, get back out there. We'll
keep an eye on you. Good luck.
Wade gives Harold a big hug. It lingers a little too long.
WADE
Alright, fetch the car. I want to
hit Shake Shack on the way home.
*
HAROLD LLOYD
*
Really? Really? -- No, no, please.
Wade pulls out of the hug...
WADE
Okay, thank you.
FADE OUT:
SHUNK. SHUNK. SHUNK. Over BLACK.
WADE (V.O.)
You know what they say. When one
door closes, your locker at work
opens.
7 7
INT. DRIVEMAX - LOCKER ROOM - DAY
*
A CHYRON: "EARTH-10005" "NOW."
TIGHT on WADE. STAPLE GUN in hand. He is STAPLING a holy-
mother-fucking-shit CHESTNUT TOUPEE onto his bald head in
front of a locker room mirror.
(CONTINUED)
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The rhythmic SHUNK of the stapler becomes the hooky beat to
George Michael's "FREEDOM! `90" as we see other quick tight
cuts:
A final adjustment of the toupee, the straightening of a
NAMETAG reading `WADE,' the buttoning of the cuffs on a crisp
long sleeve, the cinching of laces on a pair of Skechers
Shape-Ups. The smoothing of merkin eyebrows.
WIDER NOW: It's Wade 2.0. Final checks in the locker room
mirror. Ready for sales-floor action.
WADE
Now let's go sell some certified
pre-owned vehicles, motherfuck--
8 8
INT. KIA CARNIVAL - DAY
WADE is now sitting `bitch' in the rear bench seat of a KIA
CARNIVAL MINIVAN. We see only his FACE and scrunched knees in
the rear-view mirror.
Surrounding him in the van is a YOUNG FAMILY, the CHIPMANS -
PARENTS in front taking the van for a test-drive, MR. CHIPMAN
behind the wheel, MRS. CHIPMAN riding shotgun, BOYS (11 and
8) flanking Wade in the back.
WADE
Technically, the Carnival is not
a...
(voice drops out)
...minivan...
(back full volume)
*
..it's an `MPV.' So everybody gets
*
to keep their testicles.
MRS. CHIPMAN
So how does the Kia compare to the
Honda Odyssey?
WADE
That's a great question. Um, it
doesn't fucking suck.
MRS. CHIPMAN
('language')
You know, you can answer the
question without swearing.
WADE
I'm sorry, Tammy! I don't have
kids. Not that I haven't dreamt of
that, but I don't have a lot of
vaginal sex.
(CONTINUED)
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WADE (CONT'D)
*
(giving directions)
*
Right here at the light, and then
*
back onto the lot.
9 9
OMITTED (FORMERLY INT. DRIVEMAX - SALES BULLPEN)
10 10
INT. DRIVEMAX - LOCKER ROOM - LATER
Wade is changing out of his polo.
PETER (O.C.)
You'll get `em next time.
REVERSE ANGLE to REVEAL: PETER. That's right. Peter is back.
In all his moustachioed glory.
He wears a polo and wrinkle-free khakis. Peter grabs his
jacket out of his locker.
PETER (CONT'D)
And look, you can always go back to
superheroing. I mean, I know I'd
like to see you back in the suit. I
don't keep it in my locker so that
I can wear it.
Peter laughs with longing.
PETER (CONT'D) (CONT'D)
I keep it in my locker in case we
need to saddle up again.
We see the Deadpool suit in all its glory. Hanging casually
on a shitty hangar in a locker. Inert. Wade looks at it.
Then:
WADE
Hey, hey hey. What is it doing in
there? I'm done. I'm done, and I'm
fine with being done. Look, is
sales the best match? Probably not.
Is this the life that I always
imagined for myself? Fuck no. But
this is the right fit for me, Sugar
Bear. It is.
PETER
Okay, Mr. Wilson.
WADE
Aim for the middle and you'll never
miss.
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EXT. CITY STREET - EVENING
Peter and Wade bike home.
PETER
I'm just saying... once a month, we
could go on uhhhh little mission.
We're human beings. We crave
purpose. After all, we're Deadpool.
WADE
Please, stop saying that. We're not
Deadpool. I'm not even Deadpool
anymore.
PETER
Well, if you're gonna have a
midlife crisis... go BIG. A few
years ago, a friend of mine got his
nipples pierced with a titanium
chain that goes down and attaches
to his Van-Johnson.
Peter and Wade dismount from their bikes. As Peter locks the
bikes outside Wade's building, Wade gets distracted. A weird
feeling coming over him, almost like he's being watched. He
looks across the street...
PETER (O.S.) (CONT'D)
Are you feeling grumplestilskin
`cause it's your birthday?
Across the street Wade sees CONSTRUCTION WORKERS busying
themselves at a SUBWAY ENTRANCE down the block.
WADE
(distracted, something off
here)
What?... No...
Wade can't put his finger on the feeling, and heads inside
his building.
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INT. WADE'S APARTMENT - HALLWAY - EVENING
WADE and PETER walk down the hallway outside Wade's door.
Wade fiddles with his keys.
13 13
INT. WADE'S APARTMENT - EVENING
Wade opens the door.
EVERYONE
Surprise!
(CONTINUED)
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DOPINDER flips on the lights to reveal a CROWD eager to
celebrate Wade's birthday. His apartment is festooned with
balloons, crepe paper, streamers. Etc.
WADE
Hey! You guys are lucky I'm not
armed.
CHEERS all around. Peter claps Wade on the back. Wade ekes
out a smile for everyone's benefit but his own.
Wade accepts hugs from around the room: BLIND AL, VANESSA, of
course. DOPINDER. COLOSSUS. BUCK. NTW and YUKIO. SHATTERSTAR.
WADE (CONT'D)
Get in here. If this were five
years ago, you'd all be dead.
14 14
QUICK CUTS OF:
A going-through-the-motions WADE, in full SMALL-TALK MODE
with various friends:
DOPINDER:
DOPINDER
So then he gets out of the cab, and
you would not believe it, I turn
around, and what do I find?
SHATTERSTAR
Airpods.
WADE DOPINDER
His Airpods? Come on. His Airpods.
SHATTERSTAR
Crazy story.
WADE
Every time. Come on.
DOPINDER
Every. Single. Time!
*
BLIND AL:
*
BLIND AL
*
Make any sales today?
*
WADE
*
You know, I didn't. Did you sell
*
any dreamcatchers on ETSY? Or
*
whatever it is that you do?
(CONTINUED)
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*
BLIND AL
*
Our rent is due in three days,
*
Wade. I can't keep carrying you.
*
WADE
*
Relax. I have the money. I sold
*
some old blood pressure medication
*
I found lying around.
*
BLIND AL
*
Are you trying to kill me,
*
motherfucker?
*
WADE
*
I'm not the one dousing everything
*
in salt, motherfucker.
*
BLIND AL
*
I pray everyday that fire finds
*
your body and finishes the job God
*
didn't have the nuts to do.
*
WADE
*
That's hurtful. If you could hear
*
the look on my face, you'd smell
*
how sad I am.
*
BLIND AL
*
Whatever.
COLOSSUS, after a few beats of mutual silence:
WADE
You watching anything good?
COLOSSUS
`Great British Bake Off.'
WADE
Oh goddamn. That show stood between
me and suicide for ten years.
NTW and YUKIO:
WADE (CONT'D)
Hi Yukio!
YUKIO
Hi Wade!
NTW
Nice fake-o'clock shadow.
(CONTINUED)
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WADE
It's a summer balayage. From the
french. It's meant to mimic the
natural highlights of the sun.
*
NTW
*
It's a toupée.
*
WADE
*
It's a hair system.
YUKIO
I love your hair system, Wade!
WADE
Thank you.
*
BACK WITH BLIND AL:
*
BLIND AL
*
Wanna do some cocaine?
WADE
Hey! Cocaine is the one thing that
Feige said is off limits.
BLIND AL
What about Bolivian marching
powder?
WADE
They know all the slang terms. They
have a list.
BLIND AL
Even snowballing?
WADE
Even disco dust.
BLIND AL
White girl interrupted?
WADE
Even Forest bump.
BLIND AL
Booger sugar?
WADE
*
You can't even say Diego Maradona,
*
and he's a legend.
(CONTINUED)
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BLIND AL
Do you want to build a snowman?
WADE
Yes. But I can't.
Wade heads off.
Nearby, PETER has lifted his shirt to show off the titanium
chain attached to his nipples.
PETER
Pull here.
YUKIO
Here?
Yukio pulls on the chain.
PETER
Ah.
DOPINDER
What happened?
PETER
That's the fun part.
VANESSA approaches Wade:
WADE
Thanks for coming.
VANESSA
Yeah.
WADE
How's work?
VANESSA
Oh, I got a promotion.
WADE
No way.
VANESSA
Yeah. It's mind numbing middle
management, but I'm happy.
WADE
That's great. You seeing anyone?
Wade seems to brace himself.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 19.
14 (CONTINUED) (4) 14
VANESSA
Um, yeah. A guy from work. Dermot.
WADE
Dermot?
VANESSA
He's kind. Likes to go hiking.
Hasn't gotten me shot yet.
WADE
Well it's early days.
Vanessa smiles. Wade tries to.
VANESSA
What about you? You seeing anyone?
WADE
No, no. I live in a one bedroom
apartment. I share a bed with Blind
Al.
Wade smiles.
VANESSA
Okay. Alright.
15 15
INT. WADE'S APARTMENT - DINING ROOM - EVENING
EVERYONE gathered around a CANDLELIT BIRTHDAY CAKE. In the
middle of the cake sits a SMALL PHOTOGRAPH on a mini plastic
easel. The picture shows ALL OF WADE'S FRIENDS, smiling.
EVERYONE
--Happy birthday to you!
Speech! Speech! Speech!
Wade quiets the room. It is filled with LOVE.
WADE
Okay, okay, okay. Birthdays. Boy,
every spin around the moon is a new
adventure indeed--
BLIND AL
Sun, dumbass.
WADE
*
OK, round-earther. Where was I?
*
COLOSSUS
*
The adventure of life.
*
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 20.
15 (CONTINUED) 15
COLOSSUS (CONT'D)
*
Right. It's been a challenging few
years, for sure. I've been through
a lot. A change of life.
BUCK
Andropause?
WADE
Bitch, are you improv'ing?!
(then, to Yukio)
I'm sorry that you had to see that,
Yukio.
YUKIO
It's okay.
WADE
But I'm happy. And that's because
*
of each and every one of you...
Quick cut to Shatterstar who mumbles a WTF.
WADE (CONT'D) *
*
And this is about how proud I am.
How grateful I am to be standing in
a room with every single person I
love.
Wade makes eye contact with Vanessa. Pushes on...
WADE (CONT'D)
I'm the luckiest man alive.
VANESSA
Make a wish, buddy.
WADE
Ten-four good buddy. Going down.
Wade takes the little easel and photo off the top of the cake
as he prepares to blow out the candles. We rack focus past
the candles to Wade's smiling face. The flames light his
eyes.
Wade blows out the candles. Over BLACK. SUDDENLY:
A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. Wade sighs.
16 16
INT. WADE'S APARTMENT - HALLWAY - NIGHT
WADE opens the door onto his apartment hallway...
UNMASKED MINUTEMAN
Wade Wilson?
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 21.
16 (CONTINUED) 16
WADE
(raised eyebrow)
Oh, yeah. The answer's Dopinder
must have ordered you.
...revealing THREE of the imposing MINUTEMEN we met at
Logan's grave.
WADE (CONT'D)
Are those supposed to be cop
costumes? Never mind. Take your
clothes off, but leave the helmets,
and this isn't Pretty Woman.
(takes a mint)
We're kissing, alright. Which song
do you guys normally dance to?
Wade looks back into the room to make sure nobody can hear
him. The MINUTEMAN in the middle raises one of those
ubiquitous `Timesticks'...
WADE (CONT'D)
Whoa, whoa. Is that supposed to be
scary? Pegging isn't new for me,
friendo.
(winks)
But it is for Disney.
The MINUTEMEN take a step toward Wade.
WADE (CONT'D)
Ah-ta-ta... look, I've never been a
natural bottom so we're going to
take things real slow and I want
some crazy eye contact. Not you.
(pointing)
You. I can't see your eyes through
the mask, but I can feel them.
We're going to move on down the
hallway so we can spare a cleanup
on aisle asshole. How does everyone
feel about this plan?
UNMASKED MINUTEMAN
I don't like you.
WADE
Yes. Let's hold onto that attitude
and we're going to do it angry.
...a time door opens up behind Wade and a disembodied
Minuteman arm yanks Wade back and through a shimmering time
door, vanishing.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 22.
16 (CONTINUED) (2) 16
His toupée lands on the floor where he just stood.
17 17
INT. TVA - ASSESSMENT ROOM - LATER
WADE sits in a chair at a table in the center of a big, dark
room. He is slumped over, FOREHEAD on the surface of the
table. The staples remain in his skull with tiny remnant
patches of hair connected to them. Suddenly, he AWAKENS,
gasps, and sits straight up. He finds himself ACROSS FROM:
...a very dapper MAN in a perfectly tailored suit, sitting on
the other side of the table.
This is MR. PARADOX. He looks all business but speaks like a
super chill yoga instructor.
Wade looks around, disoriented. He spies the room.
MR. PARADOX
Mr. Wilson. You appear to have
soiled yourself while unconscious.
WADE
I wasn't unconscious. Who are you?
MR. PARADOX
*
I go by the name of Paradox. Mr.
Paradox. And you're sitting here at
the TVA. The Time Variance
Authority. We're really a watchdog
organization, except we're more
lighthearted than that sounds. With
a sort of throwback ironic twist.
And we're in charge of defending
what's known as the `Sacred
Timeline.'
WADE
That is a shit-ton of exposition
for a threequel. Is this because I
*
used Cable's time machine? I
*
brought a couple of people back to
*
life. Then I destroyed it. That was
a long time ago...
MR. PARADOX
Yes, we're aware of your abuse of
your timeline. And you were so
abusive of it. And no, it has
nothing to do with that. Walk with
me.
18 18
OMITTED (FORMERLY INT. TVA - CORRIDOR)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 23.
19 19
OMITTED (FORMERLY INT. TVA - ELEVATOR)
20 20
INT. TVA - COMMAND CENTER - CONTINUOUS
Elevator doors open and we reveal: A sprawling room of
systems and the incomprehensible management of
incomprehensibly important things. We sure as hell didn't see
THIS room on LOKI.
The expansive room is split by an elevated PIER-like
structure on which Mr. Paradox and Wade stand. A BAY OF
MONITORS flood the south wall, on which we see various shots
of the toupéed WADE going in and out of his APARTMENT. Coming
home from work. SMOKING cigarettes with PETER. A mountain of
footage. They've been watching him for a long time.
WADE
Wow.
MR. PARADOX
(nods)
I brought you here, Mr. Wilson, to
tell you that you're special. In
fact, you've been chosen. For a
higher purpose. A purpose unclear
even to me, but one that could save
the entire Sacred Timeline from a
possibly grisly fate sometime in
the future, which may very well
need to be AVENGED.
Wade is hanging on every word.
WADE
This Sacred Timeline. I assume I'm
going to marvel at how cinematic it
feels? Gratuitous cameos?
Indiscriminate use of variants? The
whole package?
MR. PARADOX
(with meaning)
You tell me.
Mr. Paradox waves to monitors filled with incredible scenes
from classic MCU movies. Iron Man faces Iron Monger in Iron
Man. Hawkeye drops Natasha to her death in Endgame. The
airport battle from Civil War.
And right there in the middle of the action, kicking an
unholy amount of ass, is CAPTAIN AMERICA himself. Fighting
WINTER SOLDIER. Beating the shit out of IRON MAN, etc.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 24.
20 (CONTINUED) 20
WADE
Cap!
A tear falls down Wade's cheek. He can't help but SALUTE.
MR. PARADOX
You're no longer lost, Wade... You
*
can be a hero among heroes. We've
been surveilling you for quite a
while.
WADE
The subway station.
MR. PARADOX
The TVA outpost, yes.
WADE
And what is that?
We see a quick image from the future. THOR cradles DEADPOOL'S
broken and battered body. Thor holds back tears.
WADE (CONT'D)
Is that me? Is that Thor? Is he
crying?
Mr. Paradox quickly changes the channel.
MR. PARADOX
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
*
That happens in the distant future.
WADE
(to a TVA employee)
Why is Thor crying? Quick. Tell me.
*
MR. PARADOX
*
Do not look at her. Stop that. Eyes
*
on me. I brought you here to offer
you an opportunity. The opportunity
you sought years ago but for which
you were not ready. We believe
you're ready now. Ready for a
chance to leave your timeline. And
join the greatest universe of all.
I'm about to give you the thing
you've always wanted.
WADE
I smell what you're stepping in.
(like the Rock)
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 25.
20 (CONTINUED) (2) 20
WADE (CONT'D)
The hierarchy of power in the
Marvel Universe is about to change
forever. I'm the messiah. I. Am...
Marvel. Jesus.
(humbly)
Can you excuse me for just a sec?
Mr. Paradox nods. Of course.
Wade walks away a few feet. Turns to camera. Grabs it by the
matte box. Reaches up outta frame and yanks THE BOOM MIC INTO
FRAME.
WADE (CONT'D)
Suck it, Fox. I'm going to
Disneyland. Get fuuuuucked.
Wade HEAD-BUTTS THE LENS, CRACKING THE GLASS. We have
literally BROKEN THE FOURTH WALL.
Wade skips back to Mr. Paradox.
WADE (CONT'D)
Where do I sign?
MR. PARADOX
Oh there's no need for paperwork.
WADE
Good. Not to brag, but I do not
read. There is one thing I will
need though.
SMASH CUT TO:
21 21
INT. TVA - FITTING ROOM - MONTAGE
Wade throws open the fitting room doors.
WADE
Oh fuck off! Adorn me, beardo!
MUSIC UP as we begin a short, punchy MONTAGE that recalls the
DriveMax suit-up: WADE gears up in a new DEADPOOL SUIT! CLOSE
UPS build in tempo and intensity--
CUT TO:
22 22
INT. TVA - COMMAND CENTER - DAY
Elevator doors open and REVEAL:
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 26.
22 (CONTINUED) 22
DEADPOOL, in the baddest-ass, cleanest, brightest, Avengers-
style Deadpool outfit ever. He struts down the catwalk like a
Victoria Secret Angel.
DEADPOOL
*
Fuckin' A! It's perfect. FYI your
tailor is a predator but I love it.
Snug, no camel toe. New car smell.
And Adamantium katanas? You
shouldn't have.
Deadpool arrives at Mr. Paradox, does a little turn, then
seductively leans against a desk.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Go ahead. Take it in. And yes, your
underwear is getting tighter.
(pointing to a random
agent below)
That guy knows what I'm talking
*
about. His clothes say middle
*
management, but his eyes say `fucky-
*
fucky.'
The AGENT below awkwardly sips from an `I LIKE ME' mug... and
then picks up the PHONE on his desk.
MR. PARADOX
Yes. You look very nice.
DEADPOOL
Nice?! Your buddy here is ready to
throw it all away for me. You
calling your wife?
TVA BUREAUCRAT
H.R.
DEADPOOL
Does your wife work in H.R.?
MR. PARADOX
I'm really glad you're taking this
so well!
DEADPOOL
Oh, I'm taking it well. I've never
had a problem traveling for work.
That said, we should talk vacation
days. I'm more of a one-week-on,
one-week-off kind of guy. I think
that's what they do in Denmark.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 27.
22 (CONTINUED) (2) 22
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
You'll never see a Danish flag on
the moon but goddammit they're
happy. Now, let's power up your
little amazon fire phone there and
zip me back home so I can let my
friends know that they've been
upgraded to disciples.
The TVA agents look to Mr. Paradox. Does this guy not get it?
MR. PARADOX
Yeah, I don't think you quite
understand. You will not be
returning to your home because
there will be no home to return to.
DEADPOOL
Come again? This time, in my ears?
Mr. Paradox turns to the MONITOR BAY, motions to a
technician, and a DAZZLING GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION of the
FOX UNIVERSE comes up.
MR. PARADOX
This is your universe, Mr. Wilson.
The image zooms into a dark, sickly DEAD ZONE in the TANGLED
THREADS OF REALITY. As they watch, DECAY from the dead zone
spreads to the healthy threads around it.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
That is what happens when a
universe loses their "Anchor
Being." See how it decays from the
inside? This is how a reality dies.
DEADPOOL
What's an "Anchor Being?"
MR. PARADOX
An Anchor Being is an entity of
such vital importance that when
they die, their whole world slowly
withers out of existence.
DEADPOOL
You've just won the lottery because
I didn't die, it's just a little
mid-life crisis. I'm better now.
MR. PARADOX
(stifles a laugh)
Oh my god... Can you imagine if you
were the Anchor Being? HA! No.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 28.
22 (CONTINUED) (3) 22
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
It isn't you, Mr. Wilson. Your
Anchor Being died in an act of self-
sacrifice so epic that it sent
*
shivers down the timeline.
Mr. Paradox looks at Deadpool as if he should know.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D) *
*
I am referring of course to Logan.
The Wolverine.
A chill falls over the room. Mr. Paradox brings Wade's
attention to a monitor, where we watch the death of Logan
from Logan (2017) play out on screen.
*
LOGAN
*
Don't be what they made you.
*
Mr. Paradox mouths the words.
*
MR. PARADOX
*
(mouthing words)
*
So this is what it feels like.
DEADPOOL
Logan? Of course. Logan. LOGAN?!
The guy with... forks for hands?
That Wolverine?!
The gravity of the situation is starting to dawn on Deadpool.
He turns to the monitor frantically, scanning the spreading
decay.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Yeah, I got it. You can turn it
off. Make it stop.
MR. PARADOX
We're not doing it, Mr. Wilson. We
certainly can't stop it.
DEADPOOL
How long have we got?
A guilty TECHNICIAN looks to Mr. Paradox, but the bureaucrat
stays calm.
MR. PARADOX
In most cases, a couple thousand
years.
DEADPOOL
(exhales)
Well, sweet.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 29.
22 (CONTINUED) (4) 22
MR. PARADOX
But most cases aren't fast enough.
Not for me.
DEADPOOL
What's that mean?
MR. PARADOX
It means I've been tasked with
overseeing the end of your
universe, and regardless of what
the pencil pushers upstairs would
prefer, I will not waste my life
watching it die slowly of natural
causes. We used to just prune these
*
things. Simple, elegant, efficient,
*
but I'm told the TVA doesn't like
*
to do that anymore. Well, I do. And
*
no matter what my so-called
*
superiors say, the multiverse does
*
not need a babysitter...we need a
*
mercy killer. And in this instance,
*
I am the mercy killer.
Mr. Paradox presses a few buttons and the MONITORS show a TVA
TECH CREW building a scary REACTOR-BOMB like device inside
the retro-fitted subway stop across the street from Wade's
apartment. This is the TIME RIPPER.
DEADPOOL
*
What is that?!
MR. PARADOX
That's a time ripper, Mr. Wilson.
An accelerant. Once completed it
will allow me to destroy the
spacetime matrix of your universe.
You see, I don't want to work for
the TVA, I want to be the TVA. And
*
my first order of business will be
*
giving your universe a swift and
compassionate end. Instead of a
slow, cruel, natural death, your
*
universe will simply blink out of
*
existence. And don't worry, your
*
friends won't feel a thing. It will
*
be over just like this -- "Oh,
*
what's that?" Ah. Trust me.
DEADPOOL
*
No. You're going to Old Yeller my
fucking universe?!
(CONTINUED)
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22 (CONTINUED) (5) 22
MR. PARADOX
In your parlance... Yes? Two in the
*
heart, one in the head.
TVA techs surround them, one of them holding a timestick
threateningly.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
Look, Mr. Wilson. You have two
choices. You can either rejoin your
loved ones and collectively cease
to exist in...
(checks monitor)
...I'd say 72 hours? Or, you join
the sacred timeline, and you end
your days of insignificance and
mediocrity. Wade, you can finally,
finally matter.
Deadpool looks down at his fancy new costume. Over to the
monitors showing the SACRED TIMELINE.
Deadpool nods reluctantly.
DEADPOOL
That's all I've ever really wanted.
MR. PARADOX
I know. I know.
DEADPOOL
And you know I'm nothing if not
morally flexible.
(then)
Yup. I'll do it.
MR. PARADOX
Wise choice. The Sacred Timeline is
happy to have you.
DEADPOOL
*
I was actually talking about
*
finding your Anchor Being and
breaking your fucking nose.
DEADPOOL smacks the TEMPAD OUT OF Mr. Paradox's hands,
sending the device flying, then HEADBUTTS his nose,
shattering it.
Deadpool turns to track the airborne flight of the TemPad and
takes off after it. Two Minutemen stand in his way,
timesticks at the ready.
(CONTINUED)
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22 (CONTINUED) (6) 22
Without breaking stride, Deadpool takes them down and
launches SLO-MO into a 360 twirl off the `PIER' and after the
TemPad, directly over the EYE FUCKER, who's back at his desk
below, now GAPING at the prospect of getting pancaked.
Deadpool grabs the TemPad midair, hits the button and opens a
time door, which he falls through. His left hand is the last
to disappear, reaching for the EYE FUCKER.
ZAP! The time door zips closed, and Deadpool DISAPPEARS.
The eye fucker blinks, realizes his MUG is MISSING from his
hand.
Mr. Paradox, blood pouring from his nose, slowly turns to the
shocked agents gathering around him. Calmly:
MR. PARADOX
Find him. FIND HIM.
23 23
EXT. NORTH DAKOTA - LOG NEAR GRAVESITE - EARLIER
We are back where we left off. Minutemen rush Deadpool.
Deadpool roars like a FUCKING ANIMAL and rushes the
Minutemen. CLAWS OUT.
DEADPOOL (V.O.)
And boy did he ever. Which brings
us back to this. The desecration of
the sacred corpse.
Deadpool seems possessed. Animalistic. He charges the TVA
SWAT AGENTS. Deadpool wields Logan's claws. The energy
quickens along with our pulse.
Only, it's not what you'd expect. Wielding the adamantium
claws is not as easy as the protein snorting Aussie fuck
makes it look. In short, Deadpool SUCKS at this. It's messy,
inelegant. Sure he nails a few bad guys, but also stabs
himself. He gets claws stuck in everything.
DEADPOOL
My own fucking arm!
Still, determination prevails. Despite his ineptitude, he
dispenses Minutemen, down to the last man...
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Now we're talking!
MINUTEMAN
Oh dear god!
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 32.
23 (CONTINUED) 23
DEADPOOL
I'm sorry. Wolverining is hard!
MINUTEMAN
Make it stop.
DEADPOOL
Mangled cry!
Deadpool and the last man standing are ten feet apart.
UNMASKED MINUTEMAN
You sick fuck! Logan was a hero!
And the only thing worth a shit to
ever come out of Canada.
In the blink of an eye, Deadpool closes the gap. And before
the Agent can blink, one of Deadpool's swords is through his
jaw and protrudes from the back of his skull. Deadpool is an
inch from his face.
DEADPOOL
Get my country's name out of your
fucking MOUTH.
(beat)
And my sword. Give me that.
The Agent falls out of frame, dead. As Deadpool looks around,
surrounded by fallen TVA Agents, the score subtly alludes to
the CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
(sighs)
*
Ew. I gotta find me another Logan.
Deadpool taps coordinates into the TempPad and--
24 24
INT. AXE-BAR - NIGHT
DEADPOOL arrives through a Time Door and sees something
across the room. Calls out:
DEADPOOL
*
Logan. I'm going to need you to
*
come with me right now.
A hush falls over the bar. A man turns:
IT IS THE MOST GLORIOUSLY HANDSOME HUGH JACKMAN WOLVERINE WE
HAVE EVER SEEN. He turns to Deadpool, cocks an eyebrow.
LOGAN
(steely)
Who's asking?
(CONTINUED)
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24 (CONTINUED) 24
Logan slides off his bar to stand up, but instead drops
bafflingly DOWN, and OUT of frame.
WIDEN TO REVEAL:
An immensely hairy, 5'4" Wolverine with RAZOR SHARP incisors.
Standing next to the bar stool which is roughly the same
height as him.
DEADPOOL
*
Oh. Look at this hairy little Lou
Retton. Did you stick the landing,
little guy? Yes, you did, comic
accurate short king. Such a cute w-
*
ittle w-ovy. Hard pass. I'm not
*
laughing.
Deadpool hits the TempPad and steps out through the time door
and into--
26 26
EXT. POST-APOCALYPTIC ALLEY - NIGHT
DEADPOOL is giving a full SALES PITCH to a very suspicious
AGE OF APOCALYPSE WOLVERINE.
DEADPOOL
*
Ahoy! Everything seems to be on
*
fire. Do you have a dragon? Quick
*
q. Are you an Anchor Being by
*
chance?
25 25
*
INT. MADRIPOOR CASINO - NIGHT
*
DEADPOOL finds himself in a swanky private back room of a
*
casino. SCANTILY-CLAD BEAUTIES serve drinks to high-rollers.
*
Deadpool spots the man he's looking for at a BACCARAT TABLE.
*
An EYE-PATCH WEARING WOLVIE in a dapper white tuxedo (PATCH)
*
plays baccarat with an air of sophistication and panache.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Logan.
27 27
*
INT. INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE - DAY
*
Deadpool walks in. We see someone in silhouette from behind
*
working on a vintage motorcycle. Smoke curls from either side
*
of his backlit head. His muscular form dominates our frame.
*
Iconic. Powerful.
(CONTINUED)
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27 (CONTINUED) 27
*
DEADPOOL
*
Oh, now we're talking. Oh yeah,
*
that's the whole goddamn package
*
right there.
26A 26A
EXT. CABIN (NEW MONTAGE) - DAY
Deadpool approaches a cabin, finds OLD MAN LOGAN sitting
outside.
DEADPOOL
*
Howdy! I'm just -- I'm auditioning
*
Anchor Beings. Oh, okay that's
*
going to need some coconut oil.
*
He SHOOTS Deadpool off the porch.
26C 26C
*
EXT. CRUCIFIXION (NEW MONTAGE) - MAGIC HOUR
*
Deadpool walks over to a MOUND OF SKULLS in the shape of an X
*
to find... a CRUCIFIED WOLVERINE attached.
*
DEADPOOL
*
What in the fuck? Are you okay?
26B 26B
*
EXT. WOODS (NEW MONTAGE) - DAY
*
Deadpool finds BROWN AND YELLOW WOLVERINE.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Oh yes, yes. Classic John Byrne
*
Brown and Tan. Now you fought the
*
Hulk in this outfit, no?
*
Deadpool turns to find The Hulk towering over him.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
Are you my Anchor Being, Green
*
Daddy?
*
The Hulk sends Deadpool flying.
BACK TO MADRIPOOR CASINO:
Patch calmly puts his hand behind Deadpool's head. SHNIKT!
The claws POP OUT THE FRONT of Deadpool's skull. Blood
splatters on Patch's white tuxedo, and everyone else in the
spray radius. As Patch retracts his claws and Deadpool rolls
radius
*
off and out of frame...
*
BACK TO POST-APOCALYPTIC ALLEY:
*
Wolvie viciously stabs Deadpool again and again.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 35.
26B (CONTINUED) 26B
*
BACK TO CRUCIFIXION:
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
It's not you. We're just going in a
*
different direction.
*
Deadpool exits through a time door.
BACK TO INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE WOLVERINE:
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
You know, from behind you look a
little bit like Hopper-- oh my
fuck!
Wolverine turns around and it's HOPPER-FUCKING-RENE.
Stogie between clenched teeth. The hair. The beard. The whole
nine yards. And dare I say, he makes a compelling Wolverine.
I mean... If things don't pan out with Hugh...
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
The Hopper-rene. The legends are
true. And may I say, sir. On behalf
of all of humanity... This just
feels right. We will treat you so
much better than those shit fucks
down the street--
HOPPER-RENE
You were just leaving.
DEADPOOL
*
No, sir. Not while the fate of my
*
universe is at stake --
Before DP can finish his sentence, Hopper-rene loads his arms
Mission Impossible style. Claws protract from each fist and
BOOM! He sends Deadpool through multiple pillars. Before
Deadpool hits a final one and the wall, he's opened another
time door and WHOOSHES INTO:
28 28
INT. SEEDY CANADIAN BAR - DAY
DEADPOOL flies in backwards, continuing the momentum from
"Hopper-rene", taking out a patron's beer. He rolls up and
onto his feet. The PATRON takes an aggressive SWING. Deadpool
very nonchalantly - almost elegantly - catches the man by the
throat, mashing his carotid artery with his thumb and
lowering him silently out of frame.
DEADPOOL
(seeing Wolverine)
Ooh, this one looks promising.
(CONTINUED)
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28 (CONTINUED) 28
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
(to the Patron)
Down you go.
Lowlifes inhabit the corners. Deadpool scans the room, his
eyes landing on a lone figure slumped at the end of the bar.
The silhouette of his hairstyle leaves no room for ambiguity
about who this solitary figure is.
CLOSER NOW:
With LOGAN, a depressed loner in jeans and a work jacket.
He's drunk. Haunted by things only he can see.
He downs a shot of WHISKY and taps the bar.
LOGAN
Again.
The BARTENDER leans in ominously.
BARTENDER
I told ya you're not welcome here.
You're not welcome anywhere, now
get the fuck outta my bar.
Logan locks eyes with the Bartender. We expect rage. We get a
flicker of shame.
LOGAN
Just give me one more drink, and
then I'll leave.
BARTENDER
That's not how it works.
DEADPOOL (O.S.)
It does now. Leave the bottle.
CAMERA WRAPS TO REVEAL Deadpool is now seated on the stool
right next to Logan. He refills Logan's glass. Logan stares
glassy-eyed at Deadpool for a beat too long. Where's this
going?
LOGAN
I know you, Bub?
DEADPOOL
Nope. But I know you.
He smiles. Then with a hint of sadness:
LOGAN
Everybody knows me. I'm The
Wolverine.
(CONTINUED)
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28 (CONTINUED) (2) 28
DEADPOOL
*
Yes, you are. And I'm going to need
you to come with me right now.
Logan stares at Deadpool. Glass-eyed. Wasted.
LOGAN
Look, Lady. I'm not interested.
DEADPOOL
Really gettin' into your cups here.
LOGAN
Why would I go with you?
DEADPOOL
(deadly serious)
Because unfortunately I need you.
And even more unfortunately, my
entire world needs you.
BARTENDER
You two gonna fuck or fight?
Deadpool looks back and forth from Wolvie to the Bartender.
DEADPOOL
You gonna take that from him?
A beat.
WOLVERINE
Yup.
DEADPOOL
*
I can see you have a whole haunted
*
inner world that I'm guessing we'll
*
get to unpack later, but every
*
other Wolverine would have really
*
hurt me by now, and I'm sorta of on
the tick-tick, so upsee-daysey...!
Here we go.
Deadpool hoists Logan up. Logan awkwardly smacks Deadpool's
hand off and takes an unsteady fight stance.
WOLVERINE
Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey.
DEADPOOL
I've got you, big guy.
(CONTINUED)
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28 (CONTINUED) (3) 28
BARTENDER
Get that piece of shit outta my bar-
-
Without looking away from Logan, and in a lightning fast
move, Deadpool whips Logan's highball at the Bartender. It
pulverizes into his forehead as the Bartender disappears
behind the bar, moaning in pain.
DEADPOOL
He's not a piece of shit. He's an
Anchor Being, and he's coming with
me.
On Logan. SNIKT. Claws out.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Oh, Whiskey dick of the claws. It's
quite common in Wolverines over
forty.
LOGAN
You don't want this.
Lightening fast, DP points a Desert Eagle at Logan's face. We
zoom in on its engraved muzzle: "Smile And Wait For The
Flash."
DEADPOOL
You're right. And you don't want
this. But unless you wanna take a
deep breath through your fucking
forehead, I suggest you reconsider.
Let's go, Peanut.
With enough booze in him to kill Winston Churchill:
LOGAN
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Watch
this. Alright. Easy.
Logan grabs the BOTTLE, drinking its entire contents.
DEADPOOL
Good god. Thirsty little honey
badger, aren't you? It's okay, keep
going. Audiences are accustomed to
long run times.
Logan keels forward, face-planting on the ground,
unconscious.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Guess you'll have to do.
(CONTINUED)
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28 (CONTINUED) (4) 28
Deadpool crouches down to drag Logan out of the bar, grabbing
the front of his jacket, REVEALING A HINT OF BLUE AND YELLOW.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
*
Okay, here we--
(into lens)
Oh, look at those pjs. That only
took twenty fucking years.
HARD CUT TO:
29 29
INT. TVA - COMMAND CENTER
Deadpool steps through a time door with an unconscious
Wolverine in all his GLORY, wearing his YELLOW and BLUE
suit.(But not yet wearing his mask. We save that for later.)
MR. PARADOX and his BUREAUCRATS monitor the progress of the
Time Ripper. They turn to see Deadpool lugging the passed-out
Wolverine towards them.
DEADPOOL
I got a big surprise. Here's your
Anchor Being, baby girl. This Logan
*
has the same he-can-do-anything-
even-musicals look, and bonus: he's
actually wearing a costume like
he's not embarrassed to be in a
superhero movie for once.
Deadpool barely registers as Logan falls over, landing at an
extremely odd angle. It's ugly.
MR. PARADOX
I don't understand.
DEADPOOL
You said my universe is dying
because this sack of nuts got
himself killed. Well, problem
*
solved.
A long beat as Mr. Paradox seems to consider Deadpool's
offering. Then, Mr. Paradox breaks into laughter. Not just
laughter, though. A massive full-body guffaw.
MR. PARADOX
Oh my god. You actually think you
can replace an Anchor Being? With
THIS?? I wouldn't have accepted ANY
other Wolverine, btws, but you have
outdone yourself and brought me the
WORST Wolverine!
(CONTINUED)
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29 (CONTINUED) 29
ANGLE ON Logan, still prone on the ground, but eyes OPEN.
He's heard every word.
DEADPOOL
Whaddya mean `the worst' one?
MR. PARADOX
Mr. Wilson. This Wolverine let down
his entire world. He's the stuff of
legend. But not in a good way.
CLOSE ON LOGAN's wet eyes, fixated on the middle distance.
Listening.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
What he did? Well. Some things are
just beyond forgiveness.
DEADPOOL
Ok... how do I make this right?
I'll do anything.
MR. PARADOX
I gave you a chance at greatness.
Because my superiors deemed you
special. Clearly not "special" in a
*
good way, but apparently you have
*
some important future purpose to
*
serve.
*
DEADPOOL
*
With Thor. He holds me.
*
MR. PARADOX
*
But I did my duty. I gave you the
*
opportunity to be somebody. And
instead of accepting my offering
with humility and gratitude, you
*
broke my nose.
DEADPOOL
It looks great.
MR. PARADOX
And you decimated dozens of my men
with the exhumed corpse of a hero.
Dishonoring not only his remains,
but his memory.
DEADPOOL
What are you, the internet?
A TVA tech brings Mr. Paradox a sandwich. He speaks with his
mouth full, underscoring a lack of genuine concern.
(CONTINUED)
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29 (CONTINUED) (2) 29
MR. PARADOX
Your world is dying.
(off the sandwich)
Thank you very much.
(back to Deadpool)
And there's no stopping it. The
humane thing to do is to make it
*
quick. And painless. I'm a
*
humanitarian.
DEADPOOL
Is the thought of vaporizing my
universe making you peckish?
MR. PARADOX
*
(non-plussed)
*
Think of the sacred timeline as a
*
garden. I pull out the weeds. But
*
we don't blame the gardener, do we?
*
DEADPOOL
*
How about I fuck the gardener with
*
a rusty ice skate? I'm about to
lose everything that I've ever
cared about because that hairy
thundercunt from down undercunt
*
finally dies and-- he's back on his
*
feet again, isn't he?
REVEAL: Behind Deadpool we see a groggy WOLVERINE rise into
frame. He looks rather... Unhappy.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
*
(ostensibly to Wolverine)
*
Welcome back. You smell amazing by
*
the way.
(to Mr. Paradox)
I want to talk to your boss. I want
you to get them on the phone, and
you tell him/her/or they that
Marvel H. Christ isn't playing.
The TVA Technicians visibly tense up at this suggestion. Mr.
Paradox bristles.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Holy shit, I just heard a symphony
of buttholes clenching all at once.
*
You're off grid. Your bosses don't
*
know what you sick fucks are doing
*
down here. Well, I'll tell you
*
what.
Deadpool pulls out his TemPad.
(CONTINUED)
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29 (CONTINUED) (3) 29
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
I have a black belt in Karen. And
*
I'm going to go upstairs, and I'm
*
going to tell them all about --
Mr. Paradox PRODS Deadpool with a TIMESTICK.
Deadpool DISAPPEARS. The TemPad falls uselessly to the
ground.
MR. PARADOX
Oh, silence is nice, isn't it?
WOLVERINE
Where the fuck did he go?
MR. PARADOX
To the trash heap. You'll fit right
in.
ZOOP
Mr. Paradox has flung his Timestick right at Wolverine,
eliminating him.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
*
That was close.
30 30
EXT. THE VOID - DESERT WASTELANDS - DAY
Detritus and artifacts from history and Marvel lore litter
the land. Deadpool awakens with a jolt.
A shadow falls over Deadpool's face.
DEADPOOL
Don't just stand there, you ape--
Give me a hand up.
SNIKT! Logan's claws come out.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
I'm actually okay, thank you.
WOLVERINE ROARS, buries BOTH CLAWS in Deadpool's chest and
wrenches him to his feet.
WOLVERINE
Where the hell are we?
DEADPOOL
(looks around)
I don't know.
(CONTINUED)
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30 (CONTINUED) 30
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Looks kind of Mad Maxy but that
would be IP infringement, right?
WOLVERINE
Fucking jokes.
Wolverine's free hand/claws dip below frame. He impales DP in
what we can only assume is his perineum. He lifts him above
his head and with the force of a thousand wrestlers, slams
Deadpool down on his knee with the ultimate back breaker.
Deadpool GROANS and WRITHES on the ground, clutching at his
back.
DEADPOOL
AAAAH! Were you even listening back
there?! If we don't make it back to
that Mr. Paradox asshole everyone I
know is going to die.
Wolverine dusts himself off. Takes a last look around.
WOLVERINE
Not my fucking problem.
*
Wolverine turns and walks away.
DEADPOOL
That's all you got? Is that what
you said when your world went to
shit?
Wolverine stops in his tracks. Turns his head. Seething.
WOLVERINE
Come again?
Deadpool looks around, trying to get his bearings, his back
to Wolverine...unaware he's just poked a bear.
DEADPOOL
Yeah, I heard all about you. How
you screwed up everything. You
should be thanking me for pulling
you out of that bed you shit in--
SNIKT! Wolverine's claws pierce through from behind and out
through Deadpool's chest. Deadpool looks down at the claws.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
You backstabbing son of a bitch.
Wolverine lifts Deadpool up over his head, Deadpool splayed
up towards the dull Void sky.
(CONTINUED)
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30 (CONTINUED) (2) 30
An instant later, Deadpool flips up and over backwards, hooks
his legs around Wolvie's hips and stomach, landing hard on
the ground with Wolvie on top of him.
*
Deadpool unloads BOTH guns into Wolvie's ribs, but the
*
sonofabitch takes his medicine strong.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
*
Are you ready to be calm now?
*
He slams his head back, crushing Deadpool's nose before
*
flinging him away. Deadpool rolls and SLAMS to a stop against
*
a half-buried piece of stone. It's the ancient 20TH CENTURY
*
FOX LOGO.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Rest in pieces, Fox.
Low angle on Deadpool between Wolvie's feet. We see the
bullets that were inside Wolvie drop to the ground with a
"PING" sound. Then another. And another. Until all 20 bullets
rain down in a clatter.
Close on Wolverine's face. He exhales gun-smoke from his nose
and produces one more bullet between his teeth. Spits it to
the side and hunches down like a coiled panther.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
I don't want to fight you, Peanut.
It doesn't matter what you did. I
just need your help.
WOLVERINE
I don't fucking care.
A bomb goes off in Wolverine's head. He ROARS. And charges.
DEADPOOL
*
Oh, uh oh. Fuck, this is going to
hurt.
(to Wolverine)
Alright, fuck it. Let's give the
people what they came for.
WOLVERINE
Let's fucking go.
DEADPOOL
(to camera)
Get your special sock out, nerds.
It's going to get good.
(CONTINUED)
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30 (CONTINUED) (3) 30
Deadpool does a stunning mag reload and keeps firing, but
Wolvie keeps coming, finally slashing the barrels of
Deadpool's Desert Eagles clean off.
Deadpool produces his SWORDS and defends himself against
Logan's rage in an incredible blade-on blade BATTLE.
Deadpool wields a small blade.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Baby knife.
The fight's intense. Builds in speed. And builds. And BUILDS
UNTIL:
Wolverine slashes Deadpool's leg, bringing him to his knees.
Then pulls Deadpool's head back, raising his claws and
preparing to DECAPITATE HIM.
WOLVERINE
Let's see you grow your fucking
head back.
DEADPOOL
Wait wait wait! I can fix it! I can
fix it.
Wolverine hesitates.
WOLVERINE
Fix what?
DEADPOOL
Whatever it is that you did!
Whatever made you so bad. Those
pricks in the TVA...you heard them.
They have the power to end MY
universe. But they also have the
power to change YOURS. We get back
there, and we can fix your
world...together. I promise.
Wolverine's interest is piqued.
MR. CLARKE (O.S.)
Hey! We fight each other, we lose!
31 31
EXT. THE VOID - DESERT WASTELANDS - DAY
Deadpool and Wolverine freeze, hearing the voice of a natural
leader. Deadpool and Wolverine look at something off-screen.
THE CAMERA PANS with them to reveal MR. CLARKE in TATTERED
RAGS, to their right, perched on the remains of a building.
(CONTINUED)
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31 (CONTINUED) 31
Mr. Clarke looks as heroic as a man can look. He's been on
the run, but it hasn't dampened his radiant spirit.
DEADPOOL
Dear God. It's him.
WOLVERINE
Who?
DEADPOOL
The one. The superhero equivalent
to comfort food. Or molly. White
guys' answer to all the
disappointments. And another A-
lister...I hope you're not
expecting too much screen time,
gorgeous. I'm thinking Pratt in
Love and Thunder, but not a MINUTE
more.
Suddenly, the sound of approaching engines. Mr. Clarke sets
his gaze. Then:
MR. CLARKE
They're coming.
DEADPOOL
Who's they?
A MOB of MAD MAX-ian VEHICLES approach.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Oh, they're driving angry.
Mr. Clarke jumps down in front of Deadpool and Wolverine.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Now that's a superhero landing.
MR. CLARKE
I got this.
The vehicles surround them.
MR. CLARKE (CONT'D)
Stay close.
Deadpool gets behind Mr. Clarke and subtly places both arms
around his waist, looking straight ahead at the approaching
danger.
DEADPOOL
Aye aye, Captain. You've got this.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 47.
31 (CONTINUED) (2) 31
It's weird. Mr. Clarke casually removes Deadpool's hands.
The CARAVAN circles up on the three heroes, no way out.
The caravan comes to a halt. The vehicles are populated by
lesser-known mutants from the FOX X-MEN MOVIES: PYRO, TOAD,
plus some N.D.'s. You can almost see Pyro's mouth water.
PYRO
Cassandra is gonna be giddy when
she sees what we caught.
(to Mr. Clarke)
You can't run. Everyone knows that.
MR. CLARKE
You see anyone running, dick for
brains?
Deadpool shoots Mr. Clarke a quizzical look. Mr. Clarke's
never worked blue before.
MR. CLARKE (CONT'D)
(to Pyro)
You're not gonna love what happens
next.
DEADPOOL
(to Wolverine)
Ohmygod. OHMYGOD. He's gonna say
it. Oh my god, he's gonna say it.
WOLVERINE
Say what?
Mr. Clarke girds himself for battle. Throws off his Void-wear
bedouin wraps, revealing a signature "4" on his chest!
DEADPOOL MR. CLARKE
Avengers assemble! FLAME ON!
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
I'm sorry what now?
32 32
EXT. THE VOID - DESERT WASTELANDS - DAY
"Mr. Clarke" bursts into flames. He's not Mr. Clarke... he's
JONATHAN BYERS. Oops.
Jonathan flies over the caravan, blasting with a beam of
FLAME. A vehicle EXPLODES.
Pyro SIPHONS the flames from Jonathan with his mutant power.
Jonathan is EXTINGUISHED and falls out of the sky.
(CONTINUED)
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32 (CONTINUED) 32
JONATHAN
Oh fuck.
With a vicious blow, he slams into the scaffolding, then the
ground, knocked clean out.
WOLVERINE
We don't know that guy.
DEADPOOL
Thought we did.
TYLER MANE's SABRETOOTH, Wolverine's natural enemy, leaps
down from a truck like a feral beast.
SABRETOOTH
I know you.
Sabretooth sniffs the air.
DEADPOOL
Holy... Sabretooth. Your brother.
SABRETOOTH
Ready to die?
Wolverine and Sabretooth prepare to fight.
DEADPOOL
Wait, wait, wait. Time.
(to Wolverine)
You look ridiculous.
Deadpool removes a sword from Wolverine's abdomen.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
We all have an idiot brother.
Unfortunately, that's you.
(removing baby knife)
Baby knife.
(then, to Wolverine)
People have waited decades for this
*
fight. He has no grappling game.
Whatever you do, do not go for the
head.
WOLVERINE
Shut the fuck up.
DEADPOOL
Oh my god.
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 49.
33 33
EXT. THE VOID - DESERT WASTELANDS - DAY
Sabretooth smiles and squares off. Deadpool backs up.
DEADPOOL
Okay. Good luck, I'm a huge fan...
The two MUTANTS CHARGE each other. Sabretooth throws his
biggest SUNDAY PUNCH, and Wolverine dodges and imperceptibly
SWIPES with his claws.
Sabretooth stops in front of Deadpool.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
What is it, girl? Is there trouble
at the well?
Sabretooth stops, spins around, except his head doesn't turn
around with his body. Instead, it continues to face the wrong
direction then FALLS CLEAN off his body. Reveal Wolverine's
claws extended, fresh Sabretooth blood dripping off them.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Big trouble.
(lifting Sabretooth's
head)
Behold! The head of your precious,
Queen-- Furiosa! I have the
*
Wolverine. I alone control her. You
come for me, you come for her.
(to Wolverine)
I'm so sorry. I know it's
pronounced him. I'm gender blind,
it's my cross to bear.
WOLVERINE
Who's next?
PYRO
Toad. You're up.
Wolverine looks like he could take the whole lot of them with
that kind of ferocity. Unfortunately, a highly unperturbed
Toad nonchalantly flicks his tongue out, using it to pull
down a switch on A GIANT MAGNET TRUCK.
WHOOSH!!! Instantly, Wolverine flies into Deadpool, pulled
backwards by the force of the magnet. Deadpool hits the giant
magnet first before being pinned by Logan's metallic body.
DEADPOOL
Uh oh.
(CONTINUED)
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33 (CONTINUED) 33
Deadpool looks up just in time to see a big DETACHED SENTINEL
BOOT flying towards them at rocket speed, also pulled by the
magnet.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Holy shit--
*
WOLVERINE
*
Oh fuck.
The metallic SENTINEL BOOT hits them with the force of a
cannonball.
BLACK OUT.
34 34
I/E. PRISON TRUCK CAGE - DAY
The marauder caravan makes its way across the vast landscape
of the Void.
Wolverine startles awake in a SPHERICAL CAGE being dragged
across the barren landscape. He's BOUND CHEST TO CHEST WITH
DEADPOOL.
Deadpool's head rests on Wolverine's shoulder.
Deadpool raises his head, coming face-to-face with a very
annoyed Wolverine.
DEADPOOL
How long was I asleep?
WOLVERINE
(glances down)
Not all of you was asleep.
SNIKT! Wolverine pops his claws, but the way he's tied they
just extend helplessly into the air. JONATHAN watches from
the other side of the "prison ball". Coiled in non-flammable
metal chains.
JONATHAN
Don't bother. They're very
thorough.
WOLVERINE
If you know where we are, start
talking.
JONATHAN
You're in the Void. Think of it as
purgatory. Reed called it a
metaphysical junkyard.
(CONTINUED)
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34 (CONTINUED) 34
JONATHAN (CONT'D)
Where anything useless goes before
it gets annihilated forever. And
where the TVA sends people that
don't play nice with the rest of
the multiverse.
WOLVERINE
Like you?
JONATHAN
(nods)
And you.
DEADPOOL
What does the annihilating?
JONATHAN
Alioth.
JONATHAN (CONT'D)
DEADPOOL
Okay. As long as it's Alioth is a big purple cloud
realistic and not some big monster.
purple cloud monster or
something.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
*
Fuck, my mouth.
JONATHAN
Everyone here's on the run from
Alioth. Most don't make it. There's
a resistance though. Other people
like us that managed to survive.
They're hiding out in the
borderlands. Trying to find a way
the fuck out of here.
WOLVERINE
Then that's where we go.
*
That gets Deadpool's attention.
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
These others. They can take us back
*
to the TVA. Make them fix things.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Us? We? A team? The answer is yes.
*
Shake on it.
*
(Wolverine pops his claws)
*
Fuck! You nicked it. Just got the
*
tip with your little steak knife.
Jonathan chuckles.
(CONTINUED)
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34 (CONTINUED) (2) 34
WOLVERINE
Something funny, bub?
JONATHAN
She might have something to say
about that.
WOLVERINE
Who's `she?'
Deadpool looks up curiously toward a rusted CCTV camera at
the top of the cell. (We may revisit this later.)
JONATHAN
In the void, you're either food for
Alioth... or you work for Her...
We widen out as the convoy makes its way across the epic
nothingness of the void.
35 35
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
The CARAVAN approaches the MASSIVE CARCASS of a GIANT
SKELETON.
The humongous body lays on its stomach, its skeletal CHIN
resting on the ground. Its arms extend in front of it,
creating a massive ARENA-LIKE CIRCLE, its TWO GIANT GLOVED
HANDS overlapping to form a GATE.
36 36
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
As the CARAVAN APPROACHES, the MASSIVE HANDS begin to part.
The "gate" opens, a mechanical pulley-system being operated
by the BLOB atop the rampart.
The PRISON TRUCK pulls in. There is a hive of activity.
Henchmen eye our heroes suspiciously. Among them is a massive
JUGGERNAUT VARIANT, complete with a Vinnie Jones-style
Helmet.
Jonathan gets yanked out and flung on the ground. Deadpool
and Wolverine get shoved out of the cage into the "arena" of
the GIANT SKELETAL arms. Wolverine lands on top of Deadpool,
repaying the Headbutt. OTHER HENCHMEN shove the other
prisoner from inside the other cage-ball-- who we now notice
is the Minuteman Deadpool made self-prune in the Logan grave
fight sequence!-- onto the ground. A HORN rings out. The
CROWD goes silent.
Then movement and a groaning creak from the Giant Skeletal
head, as the mask rises, revealing the rotted carcass of a
skull inside.
(CONTINUED)
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36 (CONTINUED) 36
DEADPOOL
(marvels at skeleton)
Paul Rudd finally aged.
(off Juggernaut)
*
You must be this year's Juggernaut.
*
Thank you.
JUGGERNAUT
(pulls them up from
ground)
Alright, keep your voices down. She
don't like the chatter.
WOLVERINE
(to: Deadpool)
She's gonna love you.
Out of the darkness of the skull's jaw, an old, decrepit
figure wheels out on an ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR WHEEL CHAIR. The
figure's head is turned down, obscuring their face but
revealing a BALD-HEAD.
DEADPOOL
Is that--is that Charles?!
(to the figure)
HEY, CHUCK! It's us!
Wolverine's expression darkens.
WOLVERINE
That's not Chuck.
JONATHAN
Oh shit.
The bald head rises, revealing the sweet smile of CASSANDRA
NOVA. In silhouette, she's the mirror-image of Charles
Xavier.
Cassandra rolls forward in the rickety, battle-damaged and
BLOOD-STAINED wheelchair. She comes to a stop, then stands up
and walks down from the giant skull toward our heroes.
DEADPOOL
Oh, ableism. Great. That's not
gonna go over well with the woke
mob.
Cassandra is curiously cheery, assessing Deadpool and
Wolverine...but something is off.
(CONTINUED)
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36 (CONTINUED) (2) 36
CASSANDRA NOVA
A Wolverine. I wondered when I'd
get one of you... You're one of
Xavier's.
DEADPOOL
You know him? You know Chuck?
CASSANDRA NOVA
Oh, I knew him. We shared a womb.
Tried to strangle the sly little
fellow with my umbilical cord.
DEADPOOL
Amen. I've never loved roommates.
Mine's blind. Except she can see
cocaine... For some reason.
(to Wolverine)
You wanna chime in, your majesty?
I'm dying here.
*
WOLVERINE
Who are you?
CASSANDRA NOVA
Charles Xavier's twin. Cassandra
Nova.
WOLVERINE DEADPOOL
Bullshit. I was an anal birth.
CASSANDRA NOVA
You two are cute. I have a good
feeling about this.
With a gesture, she FREES THEM OF THEIR CHAINS, then, she
walks towards Jonathan Byers.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
And I've been trying to catch this
little firefly for years, haven't
I, Johnny? You picked the wrong
time to make new friends.
DEADPOOL
Oh, Johnny told us alllll about
you.
WOLVERINE
Maybe shut up now--
JONATHAN
Yeah, maybe don't--
(CONTINUED)
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36 (CONTINUED) (3) 36
DEADPOOL
We're just talking here. Johnny
told us you're a psychotic
megalomaniacal asshole-- his words
not mine-- hellbent on domination
and pain.
CASSANDRA NOVA
(turns to Jonathan Byers)
You said all that about me?
JONATHAN
No. NO. I didn't say any of that...
DEADPOOL
(calling over to Jonathan,
LOUDLY)
Sticks `n stones, Johnny! Don't let
her intimidate you! It's like you
said in the convoy: "this finger-
lickin' dead-inside Pixie slab of
third rate dime-store nut-milk can
eat your delicious cinnamon ring
and kick rocks all the way to bald
hell."
JONATHAN
(to Cassandra, pure panic)
Okay, I've never said any of those
words in my entire life.
DEADPOOL
HA! The modesty. People think I'm a
shit-talker. But this guy? Is next
level.
JONATHAN
No. He... No. What? I don't even
know what half of that means--!
DEADPOOL
My hats off to you, sir. Truly.
37 37
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
WHOOSH.
All the skin on Jonathan's body rips away in a blink. The
blood, organs, and bone all hang in the air for a moment
before gush-thumping to the ground in a hideous pile of
lungs, heart, liver, blood, and bones. The spine and skull
stay upright in the viscera-pile for an agonizing extra
beat...before tipping over like a limp tree in the woods.
(CONTINUED)
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37 (CONTINUED) 37
What. The holy. HELL. Wolvie looks quietly horrified.
DEADPOOL
Not my favorite Chris.
WOLVERINE
You stupid piece of shit, you just
got him fucking killed--
DEADPOOL
Hey: we're all grieving. And PS, DO
YOU KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING TO THE
BUDGET?!
CASSANDRA NOVA
Shhh... Alioth is hungry.
In the distance, Deadpool clocks a GIANT WHIRLING PURPLE
CLOUD on the horizon. Cassandra walks toward it, looking out
at the horizon.
DEADPOOL
*
There's been some kind of mistake.
*
Big Yellow is a backup Anchor
Being, and I'm Marvel Jesus. MJ if
*
you're nasty. There's a guy at the
*
TVA who is going to destroy my
*
universe, and I'm gonna stop it.
CASSANDRA NOVA
Oh, honey. You don't really strike
me as the world-saving type-- did I
hit a nerve?
She did.
DEADPOOL
I didn't want it to come to this.
Either you help us, or my friend
here is gonna sing the entire
second act of Music Man with zero
warm up.
WOLVERINE
Where'd ya get the chair?
CASSANDRA NOVA
Once in a while I do get a Charles
through here. Never mine though. He
didn't care to find me.
(CONTINUED)
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37 (CONTINUED) (2) 37
DEADPOOL
(quiet, to Wolvie)
Ugh, Gen-Z and their trauma
bragging. Can't you just stuff it
down? Turn it into accomplishment
or cancer like the rest of us.
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
But I'm not like the rest of you.
*
Except maybe the Wolverine. Now we
*
could be truly terrifying together.
WOLVERINE
You're that scary, huh?
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
The TVA certainly thought so. They
*
sent me here before I could walk.
*
It was the best thing that ever
*
happened to me. I love it here.
DEADPOOL
You live in a garbage dump.
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
I think we both know who lives in
*
the garbage dump. The Void is a
*
paradise. I can wield my power here
*
without shame.
DEADPOOL
*
(over it)
*
And what power would that be?
CASSANDRA NOVA
A dash of this, a dash of that.
You'll see.
DEADPOOL
A grower not a shower. Respect.
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
But I had no Charles Xavier to
*
teach me temperance. What about
your Charles? Did he protect you?
Did he make you feel safe?
WOLVERINE
We're mutants. We're never safe.
SNIKT!
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
AAAAARRGHHHH!!!!
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 58.
38 38
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
Wolverine LUNGES at Cassandra. Cassandra stops him in his
tracks and then, with a wave, flings him back and into the
ground. Buried alive.
His SIX-CLAWS poke up out of the ground, the only part of him
still visible. Cassandra motions again, and the claws cut
through the ground as the subterranean Logan is shoved away.
The claws cut through the dirt like a SHARK-FIN through
water.
DEADPOOL
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't want the
smoke. I don't have any beef with
you. I just want to save my
friends. I just-- I want to go
home.
CASSANDRA NOVA
Well the thing is I could get you
home.
DEADPOOL
Good.
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
But I don't...want to?
Suddenly, impossibly, Cassandra Nova is BEHIND him,
whispering in his ear. Deadpool is frozen, powerless...
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
What DO you want, Wade Wilson?
Her hand SNAKES up the back of his head, a seductive scalp
massage.
DEADPOOL
Your fingers are inside me, but not
in a good way.
CASSANDRA NOVA
My brother could enter one's mind
with a thought. I have to get my
hands dirty.
Her fingers impossibly ENTER the back of his head and then
her fingertips poke through his forehead.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
Shhhhh. I've got you.
SMASH CUT TO:
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 59.
39 39
*
IMAGES (UNFILTERED) FROM WADE'S BRAIN.
CASSANDRA NOVA (O.S.)
I've got you...
We see KALEIDOSCOPIC FLASHES of Deadpool/Wade from the first
two movies; images of heroism, joy, connection. The images
swirl into a flashback of BUSTER KEATON, saying the words
that will break Wade's heart. Another shot shows us HAROLD
LLOYD escorting Wade out. We hold on Wade's crestfallen
visage as the door closes behind him. Then we see Wade
staring at his Deadpool suit, eyes listless. Then in his new
uniform at DriveMax. We see him standing outside in the
middle of the car lot. Sad. Lost.
40 40
INT. WADE'S APARTMENT - FLASHBACK - DAY
Other flashes of Wade as VANESSA breaks up with him...Wade's
pain is etched all over his face. Vanessa reaches for his
*
hand, eyes empathetic...
WADE
What do you mean?
*
VANESSA
*
I just feel like I don't know where
*
you are. I can't reach you. You're
*
not here.
*
WADE
*
I'm right here.
*
VANESSA
*
No, you're not. I can't--
*
WADE
*
I'm right here.
*
VANESSA
Then show me. You've got to do
something.
WADE
Show you what?
VANESSA
*
Show me you care about something
*
bigger than you. Ever since they
*
turned you down, you took a knee.
*
Baby, you never got back up.
*
(beat)
*
Your crazy matches my crazy.
*
Remember? Where did you go?
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 60.
40 (CONTINUED) 40
WADE
*
(hurt)
*
Oh my god. You just say it, okay?
Say "I don't want you. I don't want
to be with you." Go ahead. Say it.
Say you don't want to be with me.
Say it and I'll walk away. Say "I
don't want you."
Vanessa sighs. A heaviness weighing on her.
WADE (CONT'D)
Oh fuck.
VANESSA
You'll never fucking matter.
WADE
(hurt, in flashback)
What?
VANESSA
(but now with Cassandra's
voice)
You'll never... fucking matter.
And we're rapidly ripped away from her, through what feels
like a tunnel and into a Deadpool mask and back into:
41 41
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
Deadpool is in fact staring at Cassandra who is the real
source of the voice.
CASSANDRA NOVA
...fucking...matter.
DEADPOOL
She never said that!
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
No. But I bet she thought it.
Cassandra CRUELLY YANKS her fingers out of Deadpool's head.
DEADPOOL
You are SO MEAN! My brain could
taste your fingers! AND THEY TASTED
LIKE HATE! And where in God's name
is the intimacy coordinator?!!
CASSANDRA NOVA
You're so lost, Mr. Wilson. And
long before you came here.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 61.
41 (CONTINUED) 41
Deadpool removes the baby knife from his holster. Holds it in
front of him.
DEADPOOL
This is baby knife. She's going to
fuck you in the face now.
CASSANDRA NOVA
If you want to kill me it's gonna
take more than a little blade.
DEADPOOL
How `bout six?
Jump scare! Wolvie sinks BOTH CLAWS into her back. Cassandra
looks down at the claws poking through her chest. She arches
back, writhing in pain.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Ha, ha, ha! My boy's WICKED STRONG!
That's my BIG BOY! Yes, you are.
Cassandra looks down at the claws still protruding from her
*
torso.
She smacks her open hand against her chest like swatting a
fly. Violently forcing Wolvie's arms/claws out of her and
sending Wolvie skittering back.
Cassandra squares off to face Wolvie and Deadpool. In the
distance behind her, closing in fast, ALIOTH is now near-- a
monstrous purple cloud monster speeding through the sky and
coming in hot.
CASSANDRA
(heads back to her SKULL)
Well this has been fun, but the big
guy needs to eat and the rent is
due. By the way, you're the rent.
Alioth looms massive in the air. The bound Minuteman prisoner
shakes and whimpers feebly, knowing the end is near. Deadpool
and Wolverine look over at him.
MINUTEMAN
Please! Get me outta here...!
DEADPOOL
*
Don't you worry about a goddamn
*
thing. I've got you. You're going
*
to be just fine.
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 62.
42 42
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
*
BOOM! JUMP-SCARE!
In quick cuts, Wolverine grabs a SENTINEL FOOT. Fires it up.
43 43
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
WOLVERINE
(to Deadpool)
You coming, or what?
*
DEADPOOL
*
(to Minuteman)
*
I'll pray for you. Bye!
*
In a blink, Alioth slams down and takes out the Minuteman
*
prisoner from the dirt, gone without a trace, in a heartbeat.
*
Alioth circles back now, filling the sky above the skull.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
Coming, daddy.
Deadpool SLAMS onto Wolverine and the foot ROCKETS away at
lightning speed, zooming far off toward the endless horizon.
SMASH CUT TO:
44 44
EXT. THE VOID - CLIFF TOP - LATER
Wolvie and Deadpool slam against the hard rock face at the
top of a cliff and are smashed up and over, the sentinel boot
skittering away. Wolvie and Deadpool come to a rolling stop
on the grasslands above.
Deadpool clings to Wolverine.
DEADPOOL
Whatcha thinking about?
WOLVERINE
Get the fuck off of me!
DEADPOOL
I'm almost done.
WOLVERINE
Almost done what?
DEADPOOL
Getting my knife out of your
buttocks, you pervert.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 63.
44 (CONTINUED) 44
Deadpool pulls his knife out of Wolverine's buttock. Wolvie
flings Deadpool off.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
*
Get your mind out of my pants.
WOLVERINE
New rules: I talk now.
DEADPOOL
That's gonna be very hard on the
audience.
WOLVERINE
Shut the fuck up. Let me fucking
think. We've gotta get back to
Paradox, right? RIGHT?
Beat.
DEADPOOL
Je m'excuse. Am I allowed to speak
now--
WOLVERINE
Just nod, asshole.
Deadpool nods.
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
Right. Then we find the others that
poor kid was talking about before
you got him killed.
DEADPOOL
`Poor kid'??? He's like, FIFTY!!!
WOLVERINE
If there's a chance they know how
to get out of here, we find them.
We make those TVA fuckers fix my
shit like you fucking promised.
DEADPOOL
I smell a quest.
Wolverine eyes Deadpool. He turns toward the diner
incongruously perched on the horizon.
WOLVERINE
I smell food.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 64.
44 (CONTINUED) (2) 44
*
DEADPOOL
*
Have you had your blood pressure
*
checked? Because buba, you get hot.
45 45
INT. DINER - GOD KNOWS WHERE - GOD KNOWS WHEN
A dank, dusty, ABANDONED DINER. WADE sits in a BOOTH. MASK
OFF. He's finishing some canned SPAM. Wolverine rummages
around the diner, overturning items, looking for something.
WADE
So what made you finally wear an
honest-to-god costume? Mine's red
*
so they can't see me bleed. But I
can see how yellow would be useful
too.
LOGAN
Have you been checked for ADHD?
WADE
*
uh-uh. But I've had several STDs
which were probably caused by ADHD--
WOLVERINE
Fuck.
WADE
What're you looking for?
Wolverine opens a rusted out white first aid kit and grabs a
bottle of something.
WOLVERINE
Booze... or a ball gag for you.
Preferably both.
WADE
*
Nice. I'd take a ball gag if you
find one.
Wolverine takes out a bottle of rubbing alcohol.
WOLVERINE
Okay, fuck.
Wolverine sits across from Wade. His nostrils flared. Staring
at the bottle of rubbing alcohol.
WADE
No, no, no, no. That's, uh...
Rubbing alcohol. You don't wanna
drink that--
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 65.
45 (CONTINUED) 45
He downs it.
WADE (CONT'D)
Oh. Yup, there you go. Fuck that
liver.
Wade points to the untouched can of SPAM.
WADE (CONT'D)
Okay. You gonna eat that?
LOGAN
(disgusted)
God. Mind putting your mask back
on?
WADE
Super hard to eat while I'm wearing
it.
LOGAN
Super hard to eat when you're not.
(off Wade's head)
What the fuck are those?
WADE
Oh yeah, staples of glory. Back in
civilian life I wear a toupee, but
nobody knows.
LOGAN
Everybody knows.
WADE
Wanna talk about what's haunting
*
you? Or --
LOGAN
Uh, go fuck yourself.
Logan unceremoniously gets up and takes his SPAM to an empty
seat at the counter. Eats, back turned, in silence.
WADE
Y'know, in my world, you're uh...
well regarded.
He stops chewing.
WOLVERINE
Not in mine.
(CONTINUED)
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45 (CONTINUED) (2) 45
WADE
They don't like me much in mine
either.
WOLVERINE
...Ya don't say.
WADE
I wanted to be something. Shit, I
wanted to be an Avenger.
WOLVERINE
Fuck the Avengers.
WADE
*
Yeah. I didn't make the cut though.
Same with the X-Men. Then my
girlfriend left me.
WOLVERINE
(incredulous)
You had a girlfriend?
WADE
*
Yeah, Vanessa. When we met, she was
a dancer. We had a whole life. It
was good. It was really good. But
oh boy I just... fucked that right
up. You see, I don't like me very
*
much, so how could she? But you...
*
You were an X-Man. You were THE X-
Man. The Wolverine was a hero in my
world.
A weighted beat:
*
WOLVERINE
*
Yeah well, he ain't shit in mine.
45A 45A
*
INT. TVA CORRIDOR/ELEVATOR - DAY
*
HUNTER B-15 walks down a corridor flanked by MR. PARADOX.
*
She reviews some supply inventory logs as they walk. It's
*
clear from her attire that B-15 has been promoted since we
*
last saw her in LOKI.
*
B-15
*
I'm not even going to ask what's
*
going on with your face. But these
*
resource requests are extensive,
*
Mr. Paradox. Especially for an in-
*
world observation post.
(CONTINUED)
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45A (CONTINUED) 45A
*
MR. PARADOX
*
You've seen the file on earth one
*
triple zero five. It's teeming with
*
troublemakers.
*
B-15
*
Remember, your job is to do
*
nothing. Make sure others do
*
nothing. Do it long enough, maybe
*
you'll sit in my chair one day.
*
MR. PARADOX
*
Sit in your chair and do nothing.
*
Understood.
*
B-15
*
Did I detect a tone?
*
MR. PARADOX
*
A tone?
*
B-15
*
Maybe you'll detect this one: Good
*
day, Mr. Paradox.
*
B-15 walks off. Mr. Paradox watches her go, clearly annoyed
*
by the powers that be and the rules of engagement.
SMASH CUT TO:
46 46
EXT. THE VOID - HILLY TERRAIN - DAY
The DUO is now walking across hilly terrain. Deadpool's mask
is back on.
*
DEADPOOL
*
I don't mean to be a downer, but we
*
have a lot to do. Find these other
*
survivors hiding god knows where,
*
force Cassandra to get us out of
*
the Void, stop Paradox from
*
destroying my world with his Time
*
Ripper -- Rippa. It sounds better
*
when you say it in an Australian
*
accent.
*
(with accent)
*
Yeah, got a nice little Time Ripper
*
there.
*
(without accent)
*
That's fun.
*
WOLVERINE
*
It's not.
(CONTINUED)
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46 (CONTINUED) 46
*
DEADPOOL
*
And there was something else...
*
WOLVERINE
*
Fix the shit on my timeline.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Good god, right. This plot
*
refresher is exhausting. Rippa.
*
WOLVERINE
Was?
DEADPOOL
Huh?
WOLVERINE
Back in the diner you said, "was".
Logan was a hero. What happened?
Deadpool stops walking. Reluctant to share...
DEADPOOL
You died.
WOLVERINE
How?
DEADPOOL
Well, technically, you were chest-
fucked by a tree. But really?
(solemnly)
Ya just ran outta batteries trying
to save someone.
WOLVERINE
Who?
DEADPOOL
The shitheels that grew her in a
lab called her Lemon. But she was
just a kid. A younger, daintier,
somehow meaner version of you. You
died trying to save her. It was
beautiful.
Wolverine walks on. Deadpool too, clocking Logan.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Look, mijo, I know you're hurting.
My blind elderly, African American
roommate, Blind Al always says that
pain teaches us who we are.
(CONTINUED)
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46 (CONTINUED) (2) 46
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
And that sometimes we need to
listen to that pain instead of
running from it.
WOLVERINE
Holy shit.
DEADPOOL
She's wise.
WOLVERINE
No. That's her NAME? You call her
"Blind" Al?
DEADPOOL
Well, she's blind.
47 47
EXT. THE VOID - HILLY TERRAIN - DAY
Suddenly, an ungodly high-pitched growl cuts across the void.
Deadpool and Wolvie, on high alert, turn towards the threat.
Cresting the hill, bathed in slow motion and silhouetted,
bounds an animal. Smallish, maybe 10 to 20 pounds.
What comes into view is unexpected in every way. It's a dog.
Wearing a Deadpool suit. But not just any dog:
The UGLIEST MOTHER-FUCKING DOG ON THE PLANET.
DOGPOOL!
Slow motion. Cue: Chris De Burgh's song, "LADY IN RED".
Close on Dogpool, tongue hanging out the side of its mouth.
One of its eyes is milky white while the other wanders in no
particular direction. What little fur it possesses sprouts
disdainfully from its weird head.
Needless to say, Deadpool is SMITTEN instantly. Deadpool
(also slow motion) drops to his knees, RIPS OFF HIS MASK. He
extends his arms. Sincere musical swells are fucking
everywhere. The dog continues charging towards Wade and leaps
into his arms. She bathes Wade's face in a hideous cocktail
of saliva from a cankerous tongue. The music climaxes as
DOGPOOL and Wade kiss in ecstasy. We hard cut out to:
WADE
Oh my heavens! Look at you. She's
coming with us.
WOLVERINE
No, she's not.
(CONTINUED)
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47 (CONTINUED) 47
WADE
Oh yes, she is.
WOLVERINE
Fuck no.
WADE
Oh yes--
Just then a voice is heard from just over the hill.
NICEPOOL (O.S.)
Sorry! Sorry `bout that! Come here,
girl.
Wade and Wolverine watch as a man crests the hill. He's
immaculate. He wears a Deadpool suit with no mask. The suit
looks like Yves Saint Laurent himself slummed it and designed
a Marvel film. The man's about twenty-percent more muscular
and after a pretty healthy session in Lola, looks like a
younger RYAN REYNOLDS in his prime before his looks were
ravaged by four children and ten side hustles. The man's a
goddamn angel.
WADE
Who are you?
NICEPOOL
I'm Deadpool. And I guess you're
Deadpool too? There's a few of us.
But in here, everybody calls me
Nicepool. Or Wendy. Oh my goodness,
wait `til you see LadyPool! She is
gorgeous. She just had a baby too,
and you can't even tell.
WADE
I don't think you're supposed to
say that.
NICEPOOL
That's okay. I identify as a
feminist.
WADE
Right.
(then)
You look like a Lamborghini.
NICEPOOL
Thank you.
(CONTINUED)
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47 (CONTINUED) (2) 47
WADE
And are those gold plated .50
calibre Desert Eagle pistoleros?
NICEPOOL
Of course. To match my ear huggie.
WADE
Can I have them?
NICEPOOL
Ha! Over my dead body. You're fun.
And I guess you've already met Mary
Puppins. AKA: Dogpool. Careful
where you put your hand, she's
ninety percent g-spot, and she'll
let you know it. You let this
little flirt out of your sight for
one second and she starts shopping
for a new papa.
Dogpool rests comfortably in Wade's arms. While Wade
converses, the dog intermittently licks the inside of his
mouth. It's both horrifying and vaguely intimate. Everyone is
uncomfortable. Especially the actor playing Wade.
WADE
If you can't be a responsible pet
owner, then maybe you don't deserve
this little unicorn.
NICEPOOL
Guilty! On all charges, your honor!
(prayer hands)
It shan't happen again.
WADE
Why are you so nice?
NICEPOOL
It costs nothing to be kind.
WOLVERINE
(to Wade)
Shutting the fuck up is also free.
NICEPOOL
Caliente.
WADE
This is Logan. He's usually
shirtless but he's let himself go
since the divorce.
(CONTINUED)
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47 (CONTINUED) (3) 47
WADE (CONT'D)
(to Nicepool)
Where's your mask?
There's a looong pause as we go around the horn to Wade, then
to Wolverine, to Dogpool, and finally back to Nicepool.
NICEPOOL
(re: his face)
Come on, guys.
WADE
Oh, this guy. We're looking for a
group of survivors.
NICEPOOL
Oh. Yeah. There's a bunch of us.
Offshoots, Variants, castaways. The
*
void is a kooky, kooky place.
*
Cassandra likes to feed us to
*
Alioth. Scary.
WOLVERINE
We need to find this group hiding
out in the borderlands. You know
where that is?
NICEPOOL
Yeah, that's twelve clicks due
west. I can lend you my ride if
you'd like. It would be my honor.
SMASH CUT TO:
48 48
EXT. THE VOID - CORNFIELD - DAY
REVEAL a beat-up 2011 HONDA ODYSSEY MINIVAN.
Deadpool (mask now back on) draws the hardline:
DEADPOOL
*
No. No, no, no. Absolutely not. Put
*
the tarp back on.
WOLVERINE
Just get in the car.
DEADPOOL
This isn't a car. This is a Honda
fucking Odyssey. Throttle response
sucks a cock. Dated infotainment
system. When Honda saw that
untreated chlamydia was making a
comeback, they invented the Honda
Odyssey to compete.
(CONTINUED)
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48 (CONTINUED) 48
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Every time I talked a customer out
of one of these and into a Kia,
well goddamn it, an angel got its
wings.
WOLVERINE
You done?
DEADPOOL
Almost...yes.
WOLVERINE
Yeah?
DEADPOOL
I'm done.
WOLVERINE
Get. In the fucking. Car.
NICEPOOL
She'll getcha there safe and sound.
Ol' Betsy always does.
Deadpool snuggles into Dogpool.
NICEPOOL (CONT'D)
You're gonna have to give me my dog
back though...
DEADPOOL
I know. Listen... Yes. If you ever
wanna give her up... Or if she
needs a new home, or, if, I
dunno...
(cryptic)
...something should happen to
you... I'd love to be her papa.
NICEPOOL
What would ever happen to me?
Long beat. Deadpool just stares.
DEADPOOL
Lots of stuff.
It's awkward. Finally, Wolvie tries to grab the dog from
Deadpool. Deadpool holds her back.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
No no.
(CONTINUED)
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48 (CONTINUED) (2) 48
Wolverine manages to grab her by the scruff and toss her to
Nicepool.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
The corn was too dense, girl. Fuck.
NICEPOOL
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey. Loved
meeting you!
(to Wolverine)
Especially you. Your rage chakras
are throbbing.
49 49
INT. HONDA ODYSSEY - BORDERLANDS FOREST - DAY
Music Cue: Avril Lavigne's cover of "I'M WITH YOU".
Sexy glamour shots of the Honda Odyssey. Camera tracks from
the wheels, around the grill, and rakes across Wolverine in
the driver's seat with Deadpool riding shotgun. Deadpool's
*
head is out the window feeling the wind - like Lemon in
"Logan".
Deadpool is playing around in the car, shooting fake webs
from his hands.
WOLVERINE
Stop it.
Wolverine turns off the radio.
DEADPOOL
I love that song.
WOLVERINE
(re: silence)
I love this song.
DEADPOOL
Been a while since somebody's had a
drink, huh? Feelings can swim, you
know. You can't drown them, no
matter how hard you try.
WOLVERINE
You hold their head under long
enough...they'll stop squirming.
Wolverine turns the radio back on. But Deadpool's enjoying
the conversation. He turns it back off.
(CONTINUED)
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49 (CONTINUED) 49
DEADPOOL
Here's the thing. I get that you're
trying to forget everything, but
what's with the suit? The first
thing I did when I flamed out...I
took mine off.
WOLVERINE
Drop it.
DEADPOOL
It's not that ugly...
WOLVERINE
Stop talking about my suit.
DEADPOOL
Did you make it yourself? Been
there.
Wolverine is getting seriously pissed off.
WOLVERINE
Quit. Now.
DEADPOOL
Did the X-Men make you wear it?
Those sons of fucking bitches. They
are not your friends, I'll tell you
that. Friends don't let friends
leave the house looking like they
fight crime for the Los Angeles
Rams.
WOLVERINE
Shut the fuck up about the suit.
DEADPOOL
Whoa, whoa, whoa, watch your frown
lines, angel baby. I'm just trying
to bond a little bit.
WOLVERINE
Then talk about something else.
DEADPOOL
FINE. If they can fix your world
what's the first thing you're gonna
do when you get out of here? Some
rubbing alcohol shots, maybe a
wiper fluid chaser?
(CONTINUED)
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WOLVERINE
(dark)
What'd you say?
DEADPOOL
I said when you get back, what's
the first thing you're gonna do?
WOLVERINE
No, no, no. Before that.
DEADPOOL
(realizing he's in it now)
...If...they can fix your world?
Wolverine JAMS THE BRAKES.
50 50
EXT. WOODED ROAD - DAY
THE ODYSSEY goes into a GNARLY spin. We finally skid to a
HALT facing the wrong way. Wide shot. Long beat of the car.
51 51
INT. HONDA ODYSSEY - DAY
We're back inside the car. Shock. A passenger side airbag
deploys beside Deadpool's head, firing him face-down into
Wolvie's crotch.
Wolverine grabs his head and pulls him upright:
WOLVERINE
Whaddya mean, "if"?
DEADPOOL
I mean...
WOLVERINE
You lied to me. You don't have a
fucking clue if they can help me
fix things, do you?
DEADPOOL
No. I...I mean...
Wolverine stabs his claws into Deadpool's thigh.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
OWWWWW. Fuck!? FUCK. I DIDN'T LIE!
WOLVERINE
YOU LIED.
(CONTINUED)
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51 (CONTINUED) 51
DEADPOOL
No, I made an educated wish!
Because I need you!
Deadpool whips out something from his pouch, shows it to
Wolverine. It's the photo from his birthday party cake, a
picture of all his Fox-world friends. He's kept it.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
This. This is why. Right here.
Because if we don't do something,
they die. I don't know anything
about saving worlds. Why would I
even care because MY entire world
is right here in this picture. It's
only nine people and I have no idea
how to save it alone. I know how to
fuck people up for money. But you.
YOU know how to save `em. At least
the other Wolverine did. I guess
I'm stuck with the worst one.
WOLVERINE
Did you say you made an EDUCATED.
FUCKING. WISH?!
DEADPOOL
They call me the Merc With The
Mouth. They don't call me,
"Truthful Timmy, the blowjob queen
of Saskatoon."
Wolvie stares at Deadpool. Pulls his claw out of Deadpool's
thigh and raises his fist. Scary. The words barely find their
way through his rage and gritted teeth.
WOLVERINE
One more word. Please, give me one.
DEADPOOL
(considers)
Gubernatorial.
Wolverine almost lunges at Deadpool. Almost. But he stops.
Suddenly revels in the chance to be even more hurtful.
WOLVERINE
You know what? You are a fucking
JOKE. No wonder the Avengers didn't
take you. Or the X-Men-- and
they'll take fucking anyone. I
mean, you are a ridiculous,
immature, half-wit moron.
(CONTINUED)
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51 (CONTINUED) (2) 51
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
I have never met a sadder, more
attention-starved, jabbering little
prick in my entire life and that
says a lot because I've been alive
for more than TWO HUNDRED FUCKING
YEARS. And I'll tell ya, that bald
chick was right about one thing...
You will never save the world. You
couldn't even save a relationship
with a GODDAMN STRIPPER. And
motherfucker, I WISH I could say
*
you'd die alone-- but it's one of
god's best jokes that you can't
die. Except it's on all of us!
Deadpool is stunned. He looks hurt. REALLY hurt. Even
Wolverine conveys a flicker of regret, but instead doubles
down:
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
You got nuthin' to say, MOUTH?!
An achingly long beat. Then:
DEADPOOL
(quietly)
I'm going to fight you now.
WOLVERINE
Oh.... ARE you--
BAM. Deadpool's fist bounces off Wolverine's face. Wolvie's
face registers surprise. Then...RAGE.
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
You're not talking now, are ya?
And folks: IT IS ON! The mother of all knife-fights in a
phone booth. Except the phone booth is a mini-van.
52 52
EXT. WOODED ROAD - DAY
The exterior of the minivan, in profile, via locked off
camera.
CLOSE ON: The vehicle rocks with the violence inside. A
*
bumper sticker affixed to the Odyssey's ass-end:
Suddenly, SMASH! Wolverine launches out the front window. He
*
picks himself up...
...WOLVERINE DIVES BACK THROUGH the window. CRASH!
More rocking, pitching, smashing.
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 79.
53 53
INT. HONDA ODYSSEY - DAY
Relentless violence. Wolverine slams his CLAWS into
Deadpool's chest below his STERNUM.
Wolverine starts rotating his FIST back and forth, CRACKING
and POPPING Deadpool's RIBS.
Deadpool produces his KNIFE and goes to work on Wolverine,
then pulls out the small PUSH-DAGGERS from his chest holsters
and jackhammers Wolverine with them about six times before
Wolvie knows he's even been stabbed.
Wolvie breaks Deadpool's arm.
DEADPOOL
No, no, no, AHHH! SON OF A--
The jaw-dropping symphony of carnage continues as every inch
and accessory of the minivan gets deployed. Deadpool uses a
*
SEATBELT to choke Wolvie.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
Is it Gubernatorial?
Deadpool stabs Wolverine in the leg.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Baby knife.
Wolverine fights back.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
I take it all back. The Honda
*
Odyssey fucks hard. Too bad you
*
don't, needle dick.
WOLVERINE
Oh we're just getting started, bub.
Wolverine slams the claws on both hands into each side of
Deadpool's head at the ears. The claws erupt from either side
of Deadpool's head. As he starts to lose consciousness,
Deadpool retrieves his knife and goes back to work.
54 54
EXT. HONDA ODYSSEY - DAY
The Odyssey continues to rock and shake.
A TIME LAPSE SHOWS THE PASSAGE OF DAY TO NIGHT TO BACK AGAIN.
When normal speed resumes, the van's movements have lessened.
The rocks become smaller shudders... then comically DIE DOWN
to just a little tiny squeaking/groaning.
(CONTINUED)
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54 (CONTINUED) 54
At last the van grows STILL.
A beat.
Then it starts to barely rock/squeak a bit more.
Then grows STILL again.
A VAN DOOR FALLS RIGHT OFF.
55 55
OMITTED (FORMERLY INT. HONDA ODYSSEY)
56 56
EXT. HONDA ODYSSEY - DAY
We pull back to reveal a pair of BOOTS. Someone's been
watching this whole scene play out.
57 57
INT. HONDA ODYSSEY - DAY
BACK ON: a now-unconscious Wolverine and Deadpool.
Offscreen, we hear the Odyssey's engine start.
58 58
EXT. HERO HIDEOUT - DAY
The battered MINIVAN is parked outside a semi-concealed
bunker in the woods.
59 59
INT. HERO HIDEOUT - DAY
Deadpool wakes up in the GIANT HULK BED FROM THOR: RAGNAROK.
He spies Wolvie, looking out the window, HALF EMPTY BOTTLE OF
JIM BEAM in his hand. Glass-eyed.
DEADPOOL
Where are we?
WOLVERINE
No clue.
(re: bottle)
But I like it here.
The two hear noise in the next room... Deadpool turns, in a
flash he's on his feet reaching for his swords-- Before he
can draw, his knee is kicked in by the blur of a black boot.
THE BLADE OF A SAI instantly at his neck.
LOW HEROIC ANGLE REVEALING: ELEVEN.
DEADPOOL
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
From behind her, out steps a man: grey-streaked hair,
apocalyptic but unmistakably, BILLY.
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) 59
A moment later, a MAN saunters in shuffling a deck of cards.
He is... sex on legs. He is... GATSBY.
Billy points his sword at Wolvie.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
(stands, pretends to know)
Okay! Look at you! All. You must be
the others. Terrific! So... just
to... refresh... You are...
Wwwwwonder Wom--
ELEVEN
Eleven.
DEADPOOL
Eleven! Yes! Who could forget! And
you: I was not expecting to see you
here. I thought you were, you
know...
(mumbles)
Retired.
Billy glares at him intensely through his dark sunglasses.
BILLY
Retarded?
DEADPOOL
RETIRED. I'm already in the void.
I'm not trying to get canceled
again.
BILLY
(gets up in DP's face)
I don't like you.
DEADPOOL
You never did.
Deadpool is a little terrified of Billy.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
(eyes Gatsby)
And who's this succulent reminder
of my own inadequacies? Look at
you! You look like the superhero
version of Hawkeye.
GATSBY
(barely understandable
cajun accent)
Dey name's F. Scott Fitzgerald but
you canna call me da Gatsby.
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) (2) 59
DEADPOOL
(awkward beat)
It's been a while since I've seen
Sling Blade. Hit me again?
GATSBY
Dey calla me da Gatsby.
DEADPOOL
(suspicious)
Do they? You sure you didn't just
really, really want them to, but it
never quite worked out?
Gatsby charges and FLICKS A CARD. It nearly takes off
Deadpool's HEAD, and SLICES THROUGH WOLVERINE'S BOTTLE OF
BOOZE. Cutting it in half, perfectly, before exploding
against the wall. A shit-faced Wolvie barely acknowledges,
reaching for another bottle nearby.
GATSBY
(to Wolverine)
You know we never had a Wolverine
up in here. But I can tell you now
it's just a common courtesy to ask
`fore you drink up all of my
liquor.
WOLVERINE
Good thing I don't give a fuck.
Gambit throws a card in Wolverine's direction. It breaks the
bottle.
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
Fuck.
DEADPOOL
So embarrassing.
Wolverine grabs another bottle.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Now that that's settled. We came a
long way to find you three.
ELEVEN
There's four of us.
DEADPOOL
There's four? Wait, is it Magneto??
Dear sweet god in heaven let it be
Magneto because with HIM--
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) (3) 59
BILLY
He's dead.
DEADPOOL
FUCK! What we can't even afford one
more X-Man? Disney is so cheap. I
can barely breathe with all this
Mickey Mouse cock in my throat.
GATSBY
You nasty. Laissez le bon temps
rouler.
DEADPOOL
Not a single word. What do you do
exactly?
GATSBY
I charge the playing cards, make
`em go BOOM.
DEADPOOL
Your power is close up magic?
That's good. We're not totally
fucked at all.
*
(to Eleven, re: hideout)
*
How'd we get here?
LEMON (O.S.)
That would be me.
REVEAL: THE LEMON. Standing in the doorway.
LEMON (CONT'D)
Don't make me regret it.
Lemon stares at Logan with feeling. She's seeing a living
ghost. Logan stares back at Lemon without recognition.
Deadpool is a different story.
DEADPOOL
HOLY SHIT. Logan, that's her.
That's Lemon. She's the one I told
you about! How'd you all get stuck
in the Void?
BILLY
There was a knock at the door. TVA
sent me here.
ELEVEN
Me too.
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) (4) 59
GATSBY
Maybe I was born here. Hard to know
fo' sho'.
BILLY
TVA decided our universes were
dying. And I never even got a
chance to fight for them.
ELEVEN
People like us don't go quietly.
TVA knows that, so they took us
out.
DEADPOOL
The answer is yes. I'm in.
BILLY
In what?
DEADPOOL
A team. Me, you, you, and me. All
of us together. Let's get the fuck
outta this place.
WOLVERINE
Don't listen to him, he's a fucking
liar.
DEADPOOL
(to Wolvie)
IT WAS AN EDUCATED WISH!
(to the heroes)
Look, we've been inside Cassandra's
lair. The only way outta the Void
is through her. She can get us
*
home. She told us.
Billy leans in close. Terrifying.
BILLY
Wait. You been inside? And you made
it out alive?
ELEVEN
Bullshit. Nobody's ever done that.
DEADPOOL
We did.
GATSBY
Every timma one of us has gone
against her they die. The Punisha.
Quicksilver. Da Daredevil.
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) (5) 59
DEADPOOL
(to Eleven)
Daredevil. I'm so sorry.
ELEVEN
('Trust me')
It's fine.
DEADPOOL
Okay.
GATSBY
Even our sweet baby angel Jonathan
Byers. He up and gone missin' not
but two days ago.
Enormous pause. Deadpool slow burns a look to Wolverine who
just stares vacantly at his beloved bottle.
DEADPOOL
Ugh that's so sad. Wherever this
Johnny fellow is, I'm sure he's
thriving.
Then:
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) (CONT'D)
Look, there's strength in numbers,
alright. Us plus you guys, we can
put Cassandra over our knee and
force her to let us go! I know what
it means to feel self-doubt...
ELEVEN
I don't feel that at all.
BILLY
I'm good.
DEADPOOL
...gnawing at your gut like a coked-
up tapeworm...
GATSBY
Is'like you're holdin' a mirror up
to mah soul.
DEADPOOL
You guys might not have been able
to save your universes, but you can
avenge them. It's what Jonathan
would have wanted.
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) (6) 59
ELEVEN
Wait. You knew Jonathan?
A wobbly Wolverine pipes in.
WOLVERINE
Yeah. Dickhead here talked him into
a team up and Jonathan came down
with a little case of the `deads.'
DEADPOOL
No, no, no. We don't know that. He
may have survived.
WOLVERINE
If he survived that, he is praying
for death.
DEADPOOL
Well thank you, DOCTOR Wolverine.
BILLY
(to Deadpool)
Spill it.
GATSBY
Whatta you do to Jonathan, uh? Talk
or I'm'a start dealin'.
Gatsby shuffles... Menacingly? Deadpool spills like a trauma
survivor:
DEADPOOL
Okay, hey hey hey. Look, he ran his
fat ass mouth around Cassandra...
And she zip zapped his skin,
leaving his organs to splash
crudely onto the ground while the
soil greedily drank his blood-- It
was horrible. He was like a brother
*
to me. Look, he died before he
could make a difference! Maybe you
couldn't save your worlds. But
jesus christ you could save mine!
ELEVEN
(to Billy)
I don't give a shit about your
world, but if these two made it out
of there alive, maybe together we
can get back in.
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) (7) 59
GATSBY
Where I come from, we call that
suicide.
DEADPOOL
If we can block her psychic powers,
we can get a leg up. I know it. Now
I know Magneto's dead, but I'd
venture to guess that his helmet is
lying around here somewhere.
BILLY
Cassandra melted the helmet.
DEADPOOL
FUCK.
BILLY
After she killed him.
DEADPOOL
*
FUCK!
BILLY
She don't play.
ELEVEN
She knows that helmet was the only
way to protect anyone from her
powers. The only other helmet that
strong is Juggernaut's. But he
works for Cassandra.
DEADPOOL
Juggernaut's helmet. That's it.
GATSBY
An' we done be knowing that lid
ain't comin'off `thout the dome
gon'come wit'it.
DEADPOOL
I'm so sorry, Beautiful. I want
this to be gentle. Who is your
dialect coach? The Minions? I feel
like we are missing critical
exposition here.
A beat. A plan starting to form. Eleven and Billy share a
look. Lemon and Gatsby too.
ELEVEN
I'm sick of this. I'm sick of this
shit. I'm sick of hiding.
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) (8) 59
ELEVEN (CONT'D)
Let's face it, our worlds forgot
about us.
GATSBY
(quick add)
Or never learned about us.
ELEVEN
The heroes we were.
BILLY
Lives we saved.
GATSBY
(another quick add)
Or wanted to save.
ELEVEN
Maybe these two are our chance. To
be remembered. The way we deserve.
DEADPOOL
Yes.
ELEVEN
An ENDING.
A beat.
BILLY
A legacy.
DEADPOOL
Yes, yes! Let this man cook. This
is what I'm talking about. Big slow
motion fight, sad music, everybody
working together, who knows if you
lived or died... That sorta thing.
(then)
Who's ready?
Billy SMILES for the first time.
BILLY
I was born ready.
DEADPOOL
YES. Gatsby?
GATSBY
I ain't know my daddy, but I'm sure
I shot out of his dick ready.
(CONTINUED)
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59 (CONTINUED) (9) 59
DEADPOOL
Jesus christ that is graphic.
GATSBY
Yeah, he was layin them buttery
nuts all up in m'mama and I shot
out there and I said `what's up
doc?'
DEADPOOL
Jonathan must have loved you.
*
(then)
*
Lemon, what's it gonna be?
LEMON
The name's Lemon. Let's fucking go.
Momentum building...
DEADPOOL
Let's fucking go.
BILLY
It's on like chicken and corn.
DEADPOOL
Yeah.
ELEVEN
We're doing this.
WOLVERINE
You're all fucking dead.
DEADPOOL
My GOD! Read the room!
Wolvie heads for the door. Grabs a fresh bottle on his way.
To Gatsby, raising his bottle.
WOLVERINE
Wow, look at all these winners.
(to Gatsby)
Thanks for the splash.
*
Wolverine exits. Lemon watches him go.
60 60
EXT. HERO HIDEOUT - CAMPFIRE - NIGHT
Later now. Wolverine sits alone by a fire in the woods
adjacent to the bunker, drunk off his ass...
The sound of footsteps crunching on earth as we ANGLE ON:
(CONTINUED)
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60 (CONTINUED) 60
Lemon. She's come looking for him.
LOGAN
Not looking for company. Get out of
here.
Lemon sits down across the fire anyway.
LEMON
You remind me of him. Angry, drunk,
mean.
LOGAN
Sounds like a great guy.
Wolverine takes another MASSIVE PULL off his BOTTLE OF
WHISKEY.
LEMON
I wasn't finished...you showed up
when it mattered the most. Couldn't
help it.
(beat)
You might not know it, but you're a
good man, Logan.
LOGAN
(chuckles, rueful)
You might not know it, but
apparently I'm the worst Logan.
LEMON
I got to have a life because of
you. I got to grow up because of
you. A lot of kids did.
Logan scowls.
*
LOGAN
*
A lot of kids didn't grow up
because of me.
That hangs there. What is h e talking about?
LOGAN (CONT'D)
Trust me, kid, I'm no hero.
LEMON
That suit says different.
Logan looks at his suit, as if noticing it for the first
time. Laughs softly, empty.
(CONTINUED)
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60 (CONTINUED) (2) 60
LOGAN
Ya like it? Scott used to beg me to
wear it. So'd Jean, Storm, Beast...
All of them. Wanted me to be part
of the team. I wouldn't. Told them
they all looked fucking ridiculous.
I couldn't have `em thinking I
wanted to be there.
(beat)
Then one day, while I was off on my
own...the humans came. Went mutant-
hunting.
LEMON
I can guess the rest.
LOGAN
No, no, let me say it. I need to
say it.
(a breath, then)
By the time I stumbled home shit-
faced from the bar, it was too
late. They were dead. Every...
Logan stares at the fire. Holding back some unseen torrent.
LOGAN (CONT'D)
This suit's all I got to remind me
of who they were. And what I did.
For years I wouldn't put it on and
now I'll never take it off.
LEMON
We're headed to Cassandra's at
sunup.
LOGAN
Have fun. It's not my fight.
LEMON
We can't pull this off without you.
Lemon gets up.
LOGAN
Hey, whoever you think I am, you've
got the wrong guy.
LEMON
You were always the wrong guy.
Logan takes one last swig from his bottle.
61 61
OMITTED (FORMERLY EXT. HERO HIDEOUT)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 92.
62 62
OMITTED (FORMERLY INT. TVA - CORRIDOR/ELEVATOR)
63 63
INT. TVA - ASSESSMENT ROOM - CONTINUOUS
Mr. Paradox steps inside and answers his comms device,
clearly annoyed.
MR. PARADOX
What?
It's PYRO, rooting around in the Diner that Wolverine and
Deadpool ate in. INTERCUT as needed:
PYRO
Alioth didn't get them. Cassandra
wanted to play with them herself
first and they got away.
Mr. Paradox looks genuinely concerned.
MR. PARADOX
Did they find the others?
PYRO
No.
MR. PARADOX
Good. Alright.
PYRO
The others found them.
MR. PARADOX
Oh, very cute. Well done, Pyro.
Classic bait and switch. You really
got me there.
PYRO
Relax. If they come after Nova,
she'll handle it.
MR. PARADOX
Cassandra is a lunatic wildcard.
*
Why do you think we put her there
*
in the first place? Thank god she's
*
never chosen to leave the void. The
time ripper is hours away from
*
completion. I cannot take any
chances!
*
PYRO
*
Maybe not, but I can. For a price.
(CONTINUED)
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63 (CONTINUED) 63
MR. PARADOX
(scrunches up nose)
Why do you have to say it in that
silly voice? It's so icky.
PYRO
Do you want it done or not?
MR. PARADOX
Alright, your price. Take her out.
Mr. Paradox hangs up.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
Ugh, mutants.
64 64
EXT. THE VOID - DESERT WASTELANDS - MORNING
CUE the most ASS-KICKING PUMP-UP SONG ON THIS SIDE OF DMX.
Crane down to...
65 65
INT. HONDA ODYSSEY - MORNING
Rolling through the wasteland: the beat-up ODYSSEY.
ELEVEN, in the driver's seat, one hand draped confidently
over the steering wheel.
DEADPOOL, riding passenger, checking himself out in the visor
mirror.
LEMON, looking gorgeous and destructive at one open rear
window, wind tousling her hair.
GATSBY, SHUFFLING and RESHUFFLING cards.
*
BILLY, the baddest-ass sonofabitch ever to ride bitch.
CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT is WOLVERINE.
66 66
EXT. THE VOID - VARIOUS - DAY
Epic wide shots of the battered-to-shit Odyssey making its
odyssey (yeah, we WENT THERE) across the void...
...all the way to CASSANDRA NOVA's HEADQUARTERS.
67 67
I/E. CASSANDRA'S LAIR EYE SOCKET - DAY
From her elevated vantage point in the EYE SOCKET of the
GIANT SKULL, Cassandra Nova watches a PLUME of DUST
approaching her STRONGHOLD.
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 94.
68 68
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
CASSANDRA'S HENCHMEN look up from their tasks, spotting the
DUST CLOUD of an approaching minivan.
JUGGERNAUT
CLOSE THE GATES!
Blob tries to hustle his immense girth to the wheel that
closes the skeleton's hands. He starts to TURN it.
69 69
INT. HONDA ODYSSEY - DAY
Back with our heroes.
GATSBY
Look at that there. Dem biggum
hands come closed ain't a wonna
gettin' one up in there.
*
DEADPOOL
*
I think what the ragin' cajun is
*
trying to say is it's not going to
*
be easy to get Juggernaut's helmet.
*
He also says he has a doctorate in
*
cunnilingus. And you know what? I
*
believe him.
Billy lifts himself out the SUNROOF.
BILLY
Gun.
Gatsby passes Billy PUNISHER'S GUN.
DEADPOOL
Where'd he get that little beauty?
ELEVEN
That's Punisher's AT4.
From ABOVE, we see Billy, his head out the SUNROOF, wielding
PUNISHER'S BIG FUCKING GUN.
DEADPOOL
Which Punisher? There's been like,
five of them.
BILLY
(from up top)
There's only been one Billy.
There's only ever gonna BE one
Billy.
(CONTINUED)
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69 (CONTINUED) 69
Deadpool gives a knowing look to the camera.
BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Billy fires until there
are no more BULLETS OR GRENADES. The doors blast wide open.
JUGGERNAUT
Incoming!
70 70
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
The van SLAMS through the remains of the skeletal, now
flaming, gloved hands of the gate.
71 71
INT. CASSANDRA'S LAIR EYE SOCKET - DAY
HIGH ABOVE, Cassandra watches from the SKULL's EYE SOCKET.
72 72
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
The van's SIDE DOORS SLIDE OPEN. In SLO-MO, our heroes GET
OUT and assume a WEDGE FORMATION in front of the VAN.
LEMON. ELEVEN. BILLY. GATSBY.
And taking his place at the point of the spear... DEADPOOL.
Then, just when we think shit can't get cooler, the TRUNK of
the MINIVAN opens, slowly, automatically, the way those
things do.
A set of fingers wrap around the rearmost pillar, revealing:
...ADAMANTIUM CLAWS.
Out of the back of the minivan steps...
...WOLVERINE. Ready for fucking hell.
BILLY
Oh, this is going to be good.
GATSBY
You know how long I been waiting
for this? Woo, I'm bouta make a
name for myself here.
Cassandra's henchmen leave their posts. It's a murderer's row
of VARIANTS:
JUGGERNAUT, TOAD, BULLSEYE, LADY DEATHSTRIKE, AZAZEL, QUILL,
ARCLIGHT, CALLISTO, NICK FURY, THE RUSSIAN, PSYLOCKE, and
various NDs.
(CONTINUED)
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72 (CONTINUED) 72
And they are standing between our heroes and the GIANT
SKULL...or more specifically the entrance to Cassandra's BASE
OF OPERATIONS.
WOLVERINE
I don't think you guys walk away
from this.
GATSBY
You just make sure people know what
happened here today. And when you
get out of here, you have a drink
for me, yeah?
BILLY
You just stay on our six and get
inside. We'll make sure you get the
package.
*
ELEVEN
*
And we'll get our ending.
*
Eleven, Billy, and Gatsby TEAR into Cassandra's troops...
*
Gatsby throws cards, clearing a path.
*
GATSBY
*
And boom.
*
BILLY
*
Some motherfuckers still trying to
*
ice skate uphill. Pony up. One last
*
ride.
*
The four heroes MOW through the formidable foes, making a
path for Deadpool and Wolverine to make their way to the
fortress.
73 73
E/I. CASSANDRA'S INNER SANCTUM - DAY
Deadpool and Wolverine enter the hollowed out BRAIN CAVITY of
the GIANT SKULL. It's spartan - think... the interior of a
skull.
Cassandra sits on a throne in the center of the room.
CASSANDRA NOVA
You two escaping I could live with.
But coming back? Willingly? Boys
are so silly.
DEADPOOL
I just need to get home.
(CONTINUED)
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73 (CONTINUED) 73
CASSANDRA NOVA
Well, that's not on the menu, I'm
afraid. It's death or enslavement.
*
A la carte, of course. Upsy-daisy!
*
Cassandra flicks her hand and smashes Deadpool off every side
of the skull and the steel trusses holding it up.
She turns to Wolverine.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
Finally. It's nice to give someone
else a chance to talk.
WOLVERINE
Not my strong suit.
Cassandra forces Wolverine's claws into the ground.
74 74
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - DAY
Absolute MAYHEM has erupted in the ARENA. BILLY, ELEVEN,
GATSBY, and LEMON are a virtual CUISINART of stakes, sai
blades, playing cards, and claws.
Lemon betrays the smallest hint of a Mona Lisa smile. It's
almost like she WANTS THIS. Juggernaut points his beefy
finger right at Lemon.
And with that, Juggernaut and Lemon charge right at each
other!
Meanwhile, BILLY cuts off TOAD'S TONGUE and STRANGLES him
with it before plunging a KNIFE right into the villain's
skull.
GATSBY's playing cards are way, way deadlier than we might
have given credit.
JUGGERNAUT charges right at Lemon, but Lemon is too fast, too
vicious. She slides low, ducking his arm and taking out
Juggernaut's achilles. He falls to one knee, struggling to
stand. He manages to turn around but she's GONE. Out of
nowhere, she's now behind him. Slashes the other Achilles.
Juggs is on both knees. Excruciating pain. She slides to a
stop.
LEMON
Adios, Pendejo.
Like a god damn vision, she hunkers down and heads straight
for Juggs one last time. Blades out. She launches herself
into the air... AND WE:
(CONTINUED)
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74 (CONTINUED) 74
Gatsby launches at another henchman.
GATSBY
You shouldn't have done that.
Gatsby stabs the henchman.
75 75
INT. CASSANDRA'S INNER SANCTUM - DAY
Deadpool lies in a heap, knocked out cold from the bashing
he's just taken. Cassandra now turns her attention towards
Wolverine.
CASSANDRA NOVA
You are an interesting one, aren't
you? I do feel like you get lost
behind all of his--
(makes yapping motion)
Deadpools are a dime a dozen here
in the Void, but you...
Wolverine pops his claws and lunges! He throws clawed-
haymakers at Cassandra, but she dodges them with subtle but
freakish agility, weaves through his strikes and latches her
hand onto the back of his head. Instantly, Wolverine is
forced down onto his knees in a supplicant pose, his claws
plunged down into the ground, trapped. Cassandra crouches
down next to him, her face inches from his.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
(re: his head)
*
What's going on in here?
Then she PLUNGES her fingers deeper into Wolverine's mind.
Her eyes roll back in her head.
76 76
EXT. LOGAN'S MINDSCAPE - DAWN
Cassandra and Logan stand in a gorgeous, ethereal place.
CASSANDRA NOVA
Interesting. Not what I expected.
Back here behind the anger.
Cassandra walks alongside him.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
You're hiding... From them. From
all the ones you let down.
Wolverine falls to his knees.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
*
So much pain.
(CONTINUED)
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76 (CONTINUED) 76
*
WOLVERINE
*
I walked away. They called after
*
me... and I walked away. I always
*
do.
*
Cassandra studies him.
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
I know. That's not all you did, is
*
it?
*
The screams of children give way to the SHRIEKS of DYING MEN.
*
THE SOLDIERS.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D) *
*
(sympathetic)
*
You found them. The X-Men.
*
WOLVERINE
*
Dead. Piled like wood.
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
What did you do?
*
WOLVERINE
*
I started killing. And I couldn't
*
stop. I didn't want to stop.
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
All those bad men.
*
Wolverine is consumed by guilt. He's never said this out
*
loud.
*
WOLVERINE
*
Not just the bad ones.
*
Cassandra is so impressed.
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
My little animal.
*
WOLVERINE
*
I did things you can't forget. And
*
I turned the whole world against
*
the X-Men.
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
You killed Xavier's dream.
Wolverine nods. Disarmed. A kind of serenity flows through
him. One we haven't seen.
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 100.
77 77
OMITTED(FORMERLY INT. CASSANDRA'S INNER SANCTUM)
78 78
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - CONTINUOUS
We are tracking with Lemon, wearing her backpack, as she
races through the fight-pit, charging through a path cleared
by Eleven, Billy, and Gatsby who continue to absolutely
fucking decimate their foes.
Lemon LEAPS from the blood-stained ground UP TO THE FACE OF
THE GIANT SKULL, which she proceeds to run at an impossibly
fast speed, her claws and foot-claws like crampons, as she
scales the face of the giant skeleton towards the eye socket.
Just as Lemon reaches the eye socket she is YANKED OFF the
face of the skull by PSYLOCKE'S WHIP!
Down on the ground below, Psylocke YANKS HARD, pulling Lemon
off the skeletal face.
WITH LEMON IN SLO-MO:
WITH PSYLOCKE'S WHIP WRAPPED AROUND HER WAIST, Lemon flings
her backpack into the eye-socket as she gets ripped off the
skull and pulled violently back down into the pit.
The backpack BARELY makes it inside, vanishing as it enters
the eye socket.
79 79
INT. CASSANDRA'S INNER SANCTUM - CONTINUOUS
DEADPOOL'S POV: SLO-MO. The silhouette of the backpack arcs
up and through the eye socket. Rolling to a stop.
80 80
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - CONTINUOUS
Still in SLO-MO, Lemon falls back towards the earth. With
laser-focus SHE TURNS IN MID-AIR and locks in on Psylocke
down below, still holding the other end of the whip.
Psylocke meets Lemon's gaze, seeing her own imminent doom.
Lemon lands HARD on the earth below, KILLING Psylocke before
she even knows what hit her.
81 81
EXT. LOGAN'S MINDSCAPE - DAWN
*
Wolverine's voice breaks. Sobs.
Cut back to the MINDSCAPE. Cassandra is crouched next to
*
Wolverine.
(CONTINUED)
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81 (CONTINUED) 81
Wolverine hangs his head in anguish and shame. Cassandra
looks at him sympathetically.
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
You can't go back there. To that
judgement.
*
WOLVERINE
*
Just once I want to be the man that
*
Charles thought I was.
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
Logan. In the void, you can be what
you are.
WOLVERINE
I just wanna be free.
CASSANDRA NOVA
I can set you free. I can silence
*
all those voices...
The voices fall silent. Wolverine looks relieved.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
I've got you.
(strokes his head)
*
I've got you.
Wolverine looks up.
WOLVERINE
No.
(the tiniest twinkle in
his eye)
I got you.
Cassandra doesn't understand. Suddenly, the sky darkens and
she looks up. It's as if someone is putting a lid on the sky.
82 82
OMITTED(FORMERLY INT. CASSANDRA'S INNER SANCTUM)
83 83
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - CONTINUOUS
We track fast along the blood-soaked ground, arriving at
Juggernaut. Still upright on his knees. Decapitated.
GLORIOUSLY DEAD.
84 84
INT. CASSANDRA'S INNER SANCTUM - CONTINUOUS
Cassandra SCREAMS. The HELMET BULGES WITH STRAIN. It takes
all of Deadpool's strength to hold it on her head.
(CONTINUED)
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84 (CONTINUED) 84
CASSANDRA NOVA
Get it off!
Wolverine stands, triumphantly, claws popped.
DEADPOOL
Can't do that. You made Mr.
Stabbins angry. You're going to
send us home, or I'm going to twist
your fucking head off-- why are you
laughing?
Indeed, Cassandra has started laughing.
CASSANDRA NOVA
I can't send you home unless you
get this thing off my head. And as
soon as you do that, I'm going to
boil your brains on an atomic level
*
whilst flicking my bean to the Enya
box set.
DEADPOOL
There's an Enya box set?
Wolverine and Deadpool shoot each other a look. Shit.
CASSANDRA NOVA
Either you kill me or I kill you.
Both wonderful options.
85 85
OMITTED (FORMERLY EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA)
86 86
INT. CASSANDRA'S INNER SANCTUM - CONTINUOUS
DEADPOOL and WOLVERINE decide CASSANDRA's fate. No matter
which way they look at it, it's lose-lose.
Deadpool looks hopelessly at Wolverine. It's over.
Wolverine looks down at his claws. Sadness overtakes him.
DEADPOOL
You want me to do it?
WOLVERINE
No. I'll do it.
DEADPOOL
*
I have her neck right here. It's
*
really no problem.
WOLVERINE
You'll screw it up.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 103.
86 (CONTINUED) 86
DEADPOOL
Oh come on, Mr. PG-13-Except-For-
The-Last-One?
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! Cassandra's body is wracked by BULLETS.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
What the fuck?
PYRO reveals himself, gun in hand, barrel smoking.
He lets the gun fall from his hands...
Cassandra gasps for air, blood flying from her mouth.
PYRO
(strutting toward the
fallen Cassandra)
Oh. You have no idea what it's
like. Day after day, `Shovel the
shit', `fetch the meats'. I've
spent my entire existence--
Deadpool punches the fucking SHIT out of him, dropping him to
the deck.
WOLVERINE
Not everyone gets a speech.
(then)
Fuck. She's going to die.
DEADPOOL
(to Cassandra)
Okay, if I take this helmet off. Do
you promise you won't kill us?
WOLVERINE
Fuck.
CASSANDRA NOVA
(laughing)
I promise I will kill you first
thing.
DEADPOOL
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?!
CASSANDRA NOVA
I wish I knew.
WOLVERINE
Take it off.
(CONTINUED)
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86 (CONTINUED) (2) 86
DEADPOOL
What?
Deadpool just looks at Wolverine, shocked.
WOLVERINE
Take it off!
DEADPOOL
Why? This is our only chance to fix
our shit.
Wolverine gets serious.
WOLVERINE
TAKE IT OFF. I'm wearing the suit,
and that means a lot of things, but
most of all it means I'm an X-Man.
I am the X-Man. And I know your
brother. As much as I want to
fucking kill you with every bone in
my body. I want to fucking kill
you. He would not let me stand here
and watch you die.
(beat)
Take your hands off.
Cassandra is shocked...because she felt that.
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
This is for Charles.
Wolverine removes the JUGGERNAUT HELMET.
Cassandra's wounds instantly SNAP shut. Cassandra lifts her
arm in Deadpool's direction.
DEADPOOL
No, no, no. Don't you dare do me
like Johnny.
*
Cassandra keeps her distance.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
Please, just send us home.
87 87
EXT. GIANT SKELETAL ARENA - CONTINUOUS
The LEGACY HEROES battle the remaining swarm.
88 88
E/I. CASSANDRA'S LAIR EYE SOCKET - CONTINUOUS
Cassandra walks to the eye socket.
(CONTINUED)
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88 (CONTINUED) 88
CASSANDRA NOVA
(smiling deviously)
You want to hear something crazy?
Cassandra reaches into her trench-coat pocket and pulls out
DR. STRANGE'S RING.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
An amateur magician rolled through
here awhile back. I killed him of
*
course. Wore his skin around for
four days. But I found this little
trinket on his lovely fingers.
DEADPOOL
Strange.
Cassandra gestures out the eye socket, creating a glowing
circle in the air outside.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
(breathless)
Oh. Marvel sparkle circle.
WOLVERINE
What is that?
CASSANDRA NOVA
This is your way home. I do owe you
for saving my life.
She makes a sound, like a master calling their pet. The
ground trembles and the sky darkens as ALIOTH appears on the
horizon, SPEEDING TOWARDS Cassandra's compound.
Cassandra steps down from the edge of the eye socket, turns
to Deadpool and Wolverine.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
But let's keep things interesting.
I'd say you have about four seconds
before you're food.
A beat.
DEADPOOL
(to Wolverine)
Race ya.
Deadpool and Wolverine take off towards the eye socket as we
SPEED RAMP TO SLOW-MOTION.
INTERCUT with our legacy heroes fighting the horde down
below:
(CONTINUED)
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88 (CONTINUED) (2) 88
Big slow motion fight, sad music, everyone working together,
who knows whether they'll live or die.
Alioth closes fast, almost to the skull now. Deadpool and
Wolverine LEAP towards the socket, just as Alioth arrives.
This is the end. Down below, our forgotten heroes battle on,
relentless.
In profile we see our heroes LEAP OUT from the skull at he
same instant that Alioth meets them, the Marvel Sparkle
Circle between them in the air.
As Alioth hurtles through, the air finally clears, REVEALING
NOTHING BUT THE CIRCLE LEFT BEHIND. Whether Deadpool and
Wolverine lived or died, we don't yet know.
89 89
EXT. DRIVEMAX - DAY
PETER hands THE CHIPMANS the keys to the KIA CARNIVAL he's
just sold them.
PETER
I'm glad you gave us a second
chance. And don't worry. Wade and I
are a team, so I'll see he gets
half the commission.
CRASH! Wolverine and Deadpool crash down from the sky into
the roof of the CARNIVAL. A beat. Peter holds the keys, his
smile frozen.
DEADPOOL
Ow, that feels like a Kia. It's a
fucking Kia Carnival, isn't it?
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD
HOLY SHIT! That's Deadpool.
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD
*
That's Wolverine.
Deadpool pops up quickly.
*
DEADPOOL
*
You're damn straight it is. Fox
killed him. Disney brought him
back! They're going to make him do
this until he's ninety.
Wolverine peels himself out of the wreckage.
Peter stares at Wolverine in awe.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 107.
89 (CONTINUED) 89
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
This is my friend Peter. Show him,
Sugarbear.
Peter flashes his Prince William piercing and salutes The
Wolverine.
WOLVERINE
Oh...
PETER
You like that?
DEADPOOL
It's nice, right?
A nod from Wolvie who turns to Deadpool.
WOLVERINE
We doing this?
DEADPOOL
Let's do it.
Deadpool and Wolverine run off. Peter calls after him.
PETER
I'll clock you out!
DEADPOOL
(calling back)
Forever.
PETER
(smiles, to himself)
Forever.
89A 89A
E/I. CASSANDRA'S LAIR EYE SOCKET - DAY
CASSANDRA runs her fingers creepily down Pyro's face as he
slowly regains consciousness.
CASSANDRA NOVA
Wakey. Wakey.
One of Pyro's eyes opens slightly.
PYRO
Oh, God...
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
You put all these bullets in my
*
belly. And I'm going to find out
why--
(CONTINUED)
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89A (CONTINUED) 89A
Cassandra runs her fingers towards Pyro's brain.
PYRO
*
Whoa whoa! I'll just say it!
You don't have to stick your
*
fingers in me. Jesus, just ask
sometimes!
CASSANDRA NOVA
Fine.
PYRO
Really?
*
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
Hands in pockets.
*
PYRO
*
A guy named Paradox. He said he'd
*
get me out of the Void.
Cassandra isn't buying it.
PYRO (CONT'D) *
*
All I know is he works for the TVA.
Cassandra's face contorts with rage.
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
The TVA? We had an agreement.
PYRO
I don't think this guy cares.
Cassandra seethes.
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
Oh. He will.
She PLUNGES her fingers into Pyro's head, killing him.
90 90
INT. TVA OUTPOST - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
MR. PARADOX and a small crew of TVA TECHNICIANS watch as
finishing touches are placed on the TIME RIPPER.
MR. PARADOX
Hey, Guys. How much longer before
the Time Ripper's active?
TVA TECH
We're running the final safety
checks.
(CONTINUED)
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90 (CONTINUED) 90
Mr. Paradox sees something on the SECURITY CAM MONITORS.
MR. PARADOX
*
`Kay. Okay. Thanks for the hard
work, Ralph. Take your time.
RICK (TVA TECH)
Really?
MR. PARADOX
No, you drooling boob. No, we have
company. Cancel the safety checks.
We need to be live, now.
91 91
EXT. TVA OUTPOST/SUBWAY STOP - DAY
Mr. Paradox runs out onto the street, his eyes scouring the
streets until he finds Deadpool and Wolverine running around
the corner. Mr. Paradox is FURIOUS.
MR. PARADOX
No! Stop! Piss off! You're too
late!
The heroes step up on Paradox. Deadpool takes a look at
everything.
WOLVERINE
You're fucking done.
DEADPOOL
Why was Thor crying?
MR. PARADOX
How dare you? No one comes back
from the Void.
WOLVERINE
Tell that to Cassandra Nova.
Paradox goes pale. The GROUND SHAKES. ENERGY CRACKLES in the
*
air at the end of the street, past the TVA OUTPOST.
A MARVEL SPARKLE CIRCLE forms in the intersection. Nearby
VEHICLES screech to a stop and PEDESTRIANS scatter.
CASSANDRA NOVA has arrived. She marches out of the portal.
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
Paradox! Well, you are doughier
than you looked in Pyro's head. You
tried to kill me.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 110.
91 (CONTINUED) 91
MR. PARADOX
*
I literally have no idea--
Cassandra is now impossibly behind Mr. Paradox, plunging her
fingers into his head.
CASSANDRA NOVA
You come for the king you better
kill the king.
DEADPOOL
Ah ha ha. Welcome to the skull fuck
club, Paradox. You know she doesn't
wash that hand.
As Cassandra probes Paradox's mind, her face LIGHTS UP.
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
Oh. What's this? A Time Ripper? You
naughty boy.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Oh no, we're on it. We're gonna
head down and dismantle that thing
now. We got you, boo! You just keep
playing those keys.
CASSANDRA NOVA
*
I don't want to destroy it. I want
to use it. Now shoo. Mommy and
*
Daddy are having a conversation.
Cassandra flicks her fingers, sending Deadpool and Wolverine
FLYING DOWN THE ENTIRE STREET. They slam into CARS along the
way, before CRASHING right through a STOREFRONT at the end of
the block.
BACK WITH CASSANDRA, who continues to probe Paradox's brain.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
*
You know the funny thing is I was
happy in the Void. You sent your
trash to me. Alioth and I cleaned
*
it up. Everyone was happy. But then
*
you had to go and piss on my side
*
of the fence. And so now the fence
*
must come down. I'm going to use
*
your little time ripper, and I'm
*
going to destroy this Universe, and
*
the next, and the next, and the
*
next. Until all that's left is the
*
Void. Come on.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 111.
91 (CONTINUED) (2) 91
*
Cassandra drags Paradox by the skull towards the subway
*
steps.
CASSANDRA NOVA (CONT'D)
Now you're going to show me how to
*
use this fancy gadget of yours, and
don't worry, I've called some
friends to make sure we're not
*
disturbed.
101A 101A
INT. TVA - B-15'S OFFICE - DAY
B-15 sits at her large desk. A woman in control of the vast
canvas of all time. Suddenly, an agitated TVA OFFICE AGENT
enters.
*
TVA OFFICE AGENT
*
Sorry to bother, Madam. But there's
something you need to see.
The Staffer goes around and pushes some buttons, showing B-15
A COMPLEX GRAPHIC ON HER SCREEN.
TVA OFFICE AGENT (CONT'D)
We're getting indications of an
unsanctioned Time Ripper activating
on Earth one-triple-zero-five.
B-15 leans in to study the graphics, her expression growing
instantly grim.
B-15
Whose district is that?
TVA OFFICE AGENT
(darkly)
Paradox.
102 102
INT. TVA OUTPOST - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
SLAM CUT TO: Mr. Paradox in CLOSE-UP, Cassandra's pointy
fingers extending out through his skull.
WIDER NOW, we see Mr. Paradox being awkwardly forced to hit
various TIME RIPPER CONTROLS.
Cassandra smiles and PULLS her fingers from Mr. Paradox's
head. He screams, huddling into a ball on the ground.
CASSANDRA NOVA
Thank you so much for your help,
darling....God, good to get out of
that head. What a mess.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 112.
102 (CONTINUED) 102
She vanishes towards the TIME RIPPER's inner chamber.
103 103
EXT. TVA OUTPOST/SUBWAY STOP - DAY
The TVA OUTPOST shudders. ENERGY CRACKLES from its doors. The
TIME RIPPER is firing up.
104 104
INT. TIME RIPPER CHAMBER - DAY
The TIME RIPPER whirs to life, ENERGY CRACKLES, arcing to the
walls around it. Cassandra approaches it.
Unaffected by the energy sloughing off the device, Cassandra
removes the machine's PROTECTIVE SHIELDS with a gesture,
revealing two WHITE HOT LEADS.
Cassandra grabs the leads. Untold power courses through her
body. SHE ABSORBS IT. Becomes it. Reality flexes around her.
92 92
EXT. DOWN STREET FROM TVA OUTPOST - DAY
The MARVEL SPARKLE CIRCLE EXPANDS and silhouettes are dimly
visible approaching.
The heroes emerge from the destroyed building, eyeing the
ominous forms taking shape through the sparkle circle down
the block.
DEADPOOL
(to Wolverine)
Stop.
93 93
EXT. STREETS - DAY
Quick cuts of CIVILIANS fleeing their vehicles...
94 94
EXT. DOWN STREET FROM TVA OUTPOST - DAY
DEADPOOL
(off the civilians
fleeing)
Go, go, go.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Oh, my God! OH MY GOD.
And then, in the delicate silence...a dog's YAPPING.
DOGPOOL LEAPS out of the REALITY TEAR and happily runs to
Deadpool. Toto reuniting with Dorothy.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
It's her! Come on, girl! Come on,
girl!
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 113.
94 (CONTINUED) 94
Deadpool grabs Dogpool, cuddling her and letting the mutt
lick him all over.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
My girl! We don't have to be apart,
ever ever again! Never ever--
NICEPOOL (O.S.)
Sorry!
DEADPOOL
FUCK.
NICEPOOL comes jogging up.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
What's top-knot doing here?
NICEPOOL
Sorry about that.
DEADPOOL
Tremble not, sweet Mary Puppins.
I'll handle him.
NICEPOOL
Come here, girl. Papa's here.
DEADPOOL
Do not insult this animal's
autonomy. She can decide who her
papa is.
(holding Dogpool up)
What's it gonna be, girl, huh? The
original recipe or Van Milder here.
NICEPOOL
Ah, that's funny. I can gently tap
the fourth wall too.
(to camera)
The Proposal!
DEADPOOL
What the fuck was that? Bitch, you
think that's what I do?
WOLVERINE
Both of you shut up.
Wolverine sniffs the air.
DEADPOOL
You smell something?
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 114.
94 (CONTINUED) (2) 94
WOLVERINE
Yeah, you. A lot of you.
95 95
EXT. DOWN STREET FROM TVA OUTPOST - DAY
From within the sparkle circle down the block, now in OVAL
shape, DOZENS OF DEADPOOL VARIANTS emerge.
It's a freak show. Variant after Variant of Deadpool.
PUNKPOOL, SAMURAI DEADPOOL, COWBOYPOOL, ZENPOOL, WELSHPOOL.
They're led by LADY DEADPOOL and KIDPOOL, holding HEADPOOL.
NICEPOOL
I told you there were a lot of
Deadpools over there.
DEADPOOL
Holy shit.
WOLVERINE
I take it they're not friendly?
*
NICEPOOL
*
No no no. Cassandra brought them
*
here. Their only job is to make
*
sure that nobody gets anywhere near
*
her.
Deadpool kisses Dogpool, passes her to Wolverine.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Hold please.
WOLVERINE
Oh, god.
DEADPOOL
Alright, look! Guys! Deadpool Prime
here. Our fight isn't with you!
KIDPOOL
Hey! When we want your opinion I'll
*
take my dick out of your mouth!
NICEPOOL
That's Kidpool. He's the dirtiest.
DEADPOOL
Can we just be done?
LADY DEADPOOL
Ah ha ha, we are JUST getting
started.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 115.
95 (CONTINUED) 95
DEADPOOL
No no no with the whole multiverse
thing. It's not great. It's just
been miss after miss after miss.
Look, the Wizard of Oz did the
multiverse first and they did it
best. The gays knew it...but we
didn't listen. Let's just take the
L and move on.
NICEPOOL
I think it's been steadily great
since Endgame.
LADY DEADPOOL
What are you talking about? The
multiverse is over.
COWBOYPOOL
Cassandi gonna destroy the fuck out
*
of every timeline. And you all
*
can't do shit about it.
DEADPOOL
*
Do you not get it? If we don't go
down to the subway and stop her we
all die.
*
COWBOYPOOL
*
The boss lady don't want no
*
disturbances.
HEADPOOL
*
You wanna get down to the subway,
you gotta go through us.
(to Lady Deadpool)
Uzi time, baby.
LADY DEADPOOL
Uzi time, baby.
DEADPOOL
Look alive.
96 96
EXT. DOWN STREET FROM TVA OUTPOST - DAY
LADY DEADPOOL OPENS UP with her UZIs. WOLVERINE DIVES behind
a CAR. DEADPOOL grabs Nicepool, using him as a human shield.
Nicepool is RIDDLED with bullets.
Deadpool cradles the fallen Nicepool. He's PALE WHITE.
Coughing up blood.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 116.
96 (CONTINUED) 96
NICEPOOL
I think I'm hit.
DEADPOOL
Oh shit.
WOLVERINE
You did that on purpose.
DEADPOOL
I did no such thing!
(to Nicepool)
Listen to me, gorgeous. How long
does it take for you to regenerate?
NICEPOOL
Regenerate?
Awkward, awkward silence. Deadpool scratches his chin.
WOLVERINE
You really are God's perfect idiot,
aren't you?
*
NICEPOOL
*
I'm okay.
DEADPOOL
*
How dare you? I should be ashamed
*
of yourself. How was I supposed to
know he doesn't regenerate?! I'm
not a medicine woman!
Deadpool wrenches Nicepool to his feet, sees a DONUT STAND.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Look, a donut cart. They're
practically hospitals! They sell
portable triage units.
WOLVERINE
They don't.
DEADPOOL
I'm gonna get you to safety.
WOLVERINE
(to Dogpool)
He's not.
DEADPOOL
Deep breath.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 117.
96 (CONTINUED) (2) 96
Deadpool crosses the line of fire once more. But it's clear
he's using Nicepool as a human shield, AGAIN.
NICEPOOL
Hey. Why are we stopping?
DEADPOOL
(turns Nicepool facing
out)
I'm just catching my breath. What,
are your legs on vacation? You're
dead weight.
NICEPOOL
That's because I'm paralyzed.
DEADPOOL
We all have problems. Listen to me.
You're going to live. Look at me,
*
Nicepool. You're going to live. Say
it!
NICEPOOL
I'm going to live.
DEADPOOL
Say it with me. You're going to
live!
NICEPOOL
I'm going to live!
DEADPOOL
SAY IT LOUDER!
NICEPOOL
I'm going to--
BLAM! This time Nicepool's head is blown clean off.
As Deadpool ducks behind the Donut stand, he desperately
performs chest compressions on Nicepool, which just produce
*
intermittent BLOOD-GUSHES out of the neck stump.
Wolverine crosses to the Donut cart.
He holds Dogpool out like a shield.
HEADPOOL
Hold your fire!
The Deadpool Corps hold their fire.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 118.
96 (CONTINUED) (3) 96
HEADPOOL (CONT'D)
Sweet little puppy.
Wolverine makes his way to Deadpool.
Deadpool's face is covered with BRAIN PARTICULATE and
NICEPOOL'S EAR, with a small cuff on it. Deadpool notices
Wolvie staring at him with disgust.
DEADPOOL
GODDAMNIT! I don't think he's going
to make it.
(then)
Do I have anything on my face?
WOLVERINE
You have a whole face on your face.
DEADPOOL
God, I can taste his final thought.
He was so afraid. But he died a
hero.
WOLVERINE
He died from murder, you dumb fuck!
DEADPOOL
And all I have to remember him by
are these two gold-plated .50
caliber desert eagle pistoleros.
This is for him, are you ready?
WOLVERINE
I get to kill a hundred yous. Fuck
yeah I'm ready.
(to Dogpool)
You don't want to see this, bub.
DEADPOOL
That's a good girl.
97 97
EXT. DOWN STREET FROM TVA OUTPOST - DAY
Deadpool and Wolverine step out from cover and cross into the
middle of the street.
Wolverine reaches back behind his collar and PULLS ON HIS
CLASSIC COWL-- GLORIOUS SIGNATURE WINGS AND ALL.
DEADPOOL
Holy shit! You save the good stuff
for special occasions?
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 119.
97 (CONTINUED) 97
WOLVERINE
Killing, mostly.
DEADPOOL
What's the wind resistance on those
blowjob handles?
Wolverine grits his teeth.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
I'm sorry. I'm just a catty bitch
when I'm jealous. Alright, let's do
this. MAXIMUM EFFORT.
SNIKT! It is game the fuck ON, y'all!
98 98
EXT. DOWN STREET FROM TVA OUTPOST - DAY
"Like a Prayer" spins up as Deadpool and Wolverine hack their
way through an ARMY OF DEADPOOLS in a spectacular ONER.
We RAMP in and out of SLO-MO. BLOOD sprays. TEETH fly.
SUPLEXES. JUDO TOSSES. AGGRESSIVE LEAPS from variant to
variant, like flesh stepping-stones.
It's fucking glorious.
Deadpool and Wolverine continue hacking their way through the
*
DEADPOOL ARMY. An orgy of superhero-ness.
99 99
*
I/E. WADE'S APARTMENT WINDOW - DAY
*
The camera tilts up to find BLIND AL at her window.
*
BLIND AL
*
Motherfucker. I wish I were deaf.
100 100
EXT. DOWN STREET FROM TVA OUTPOST - DAY
A symphony of VIOLENCE as DEADPOOL and WOLVERINE take on
combatants from ALL SIDES, Deadpool dodging assailants that
Wolverine finishes off and vice/versa. The heroes mow through
the Deadpool Corps and approach the TVA outpost, eventually
our duo finishes off the last of the Deadpool Corps.
Finally, KIDPOOL WHIPS HEADPOOL at Deadpool. Headpool screams
a VIKING WAR CRY...and is skewered by a KATANA.
*
BLIND AL
*
Fucking nerds.
*
Blind Al closes her window.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 120.
100 (CONTINUED) 100
Deadpool and Wolverine stand in the middle of the street, in
the center of the fallen Deadpools, their piled bodies
*
radiating away from our heroes in rings.
*
ANGLE ON: BABYPOOL, seated blissfully on the sidewalk. He
*
giggles.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Whatcha laughing at, you little
*
fucker?
101 101
*
EXT. DOWN STREET FROM TVA OUTPOST - DAY
*
Then, in the silence...a spreading rustling. The fallen
*
DEADPOOLS begin to heal. RISING to their feet.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Uh oh. I guess these ones
*
regenerate.
*
(looking around)
*
Come on. We don't have time for
*
this.
*
The DEADPOOL VARIANTS close their ranks between Deadpool and
*
Wolverine and the entrance to the outpost.
*
PETERPOOL (O.S.)
*
DEADPOOLS! STAND DOWN.
*
PETERPOOL (Peter STUFFED into the old red DEADPOOL COSTUME
*
FROM THE TAG OF DEADPOOL 2 that he's been keeping in his
*
locker) rides up on his bike, deftly hopping off and into an
*
unnecessary safety roll to land between the horde and the
*
heroes.
PETERPOOL (CONT'D) *
*
This Deadpool's with me.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Peter?
*
LADY DEADPOOL
*
Holy shit.
*
The Deadpool variants all stare at him in stunned silence.
*
KIDPOOL
*
It's fucking Peter!
*
HEADPOOL
*
That's Peter!
*
BABYPOOL
*
Dada.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 121.
101 (CONTINUED) 101
*
DEADPOOL
*
Wait, you guys know Peter?
*
LADY DEADPOOL
*
Are you kidding me? Every Deadpool
*
has a Peter.
*
COWBOYPOOL
*
Peter's a goddamn legend in every
*
deadpool's world.
*
SAMURAI DEADPOOL
*
Mr. Peter...yes.
*
Peter's name echoes through the mob of DEADPOOLS. Peter? Is
*
that my Sugar bear? The awed proclamations become a
*
cacophony.
*
HEADPOOL
*
Oh, there's my guy.
*
Stunned, Peter removes his mask. The crowd goes WILD! He
*
doesn't know what's happening, but he doesn't hate it.
*
DEADPOOLS
*
PETER!! PETER!!!
*
They hoist Peter on their shoulders.
*
DEADPOOL
*
(headed down subway steps)
*
They are going to put miles of cock
*
in Peter!
*
Deadpool and Wolverine disappear into the TVA outpost.
105 105
*
INT. TVA OUTPOST - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
Deadpool and Wolverine race into the control room. Mr.
Paradox looks back from his control panel.
MR. PARADOX
Oh, now you're here. Oh well you're
too late. It's all over.
WOLVERINE
Not yet it's not.
DEADPOOL
(to camera)
No, no, no. But we're very close.
Homestretch, folks. Promise.
(to Mr. Paradox)
Quick, let's have the stakes.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 122.
105 (CONTINUED) 105
MR. PARADOX
If she steals the Time Ripper's
*
energy she has the power to shred
the fabric of all realities until
there's nothing left but the Void.
WOLVERINE
How do we shut it down?
MR. PARADOX
I-I don't know...
Wolverine pops his claws but leaves the middle blade
retracted, so he can pin Mr. Paradox's head to the console,
one claw on each side of Mr. Paradox's neck.
WOLVERINE
How about now?
DEADPOOL
The mask is really intimidating,
huh? Not stupid like Batman.
MR. PARADOX
L-look...
Mr. Paradox brings up THE VIDEO FEED OF THE TIME RIPPER'S
REACTOR POWER SOURCE, deep in the outpost's bowels.
Two MASSIVE PLASMA PIPES rise up from the floor, snake around
each other (while never coming closer than 10 ft to one
another) and exit through the ceiling. One PIPE crackles with
*
ORANGE energy. The other's is a DEEP BLUE.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
The Ripper is fed from a secured
*
chamber below ground. It is powered
*
by twin matter and anti-matter
*
feeds converging inside the device.
*
Now Cassandra Nova is redirecting
the Ripper's power to eliminate
*
timelines, all of them. No timeline
will be safe from extinction. Now
*
theoretically you could stop her by
*
short circuiting the feeds in the
*
chamber below. If one of you were
*
to create a circuit between the two
*
feeds, then the released power
*
would destroy the machine, but...
DEADPOOL
Come on, man! If you're not gonna
swallow SPIT IT OUT.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 123.
105 (CONTINUED) (2) 105
MR. PARADOX
Whoever formed the bridge would be
annihilated.
WOLVERINE
I could live with that.
DEADPOOL
Yeah, I could live with that too
actually. We survive anything.
We're like cockroaches.
MR. PARADOX
*
Not this time. This is matter and
anti-matter. They do not play
nicely with each other. When they
mix in your body you will be
atomized. Trust the laws of physics
*
if you don't trust me. Even if you
*
lived long enough to make the
*
circuit you will die down there.
Deadpool and Wolverine stare at the screen, watching
Cassandra feed the Time Ripper.
106 106
INT. LOWER TVA OUTPOST - SUBWAY TRACKS - DAY
Deadpool and Wolverine march along the SUBWAY TRACKS leading
toward the REACTOR POWER SOURCE.
107 107
INT. TVA OUTPOST - POWER ROOM - CONTINUOUS
They approach a massive BLAST DOOR at the end of the tunnel
leading into the POWER ROOM. Wolverine stops Deadpool before
they enter.
WOLVERINE
*
Hold up, hold up. You heard that
asshole upstairs. Even if we pull
this off, we're dead. Permanently.
DEADPOOL
That's why it's gotta be me.
WOLVERINE
What?
Wolverine is stunned. Deadpool takes a breath. Removes his
mask.
WADE
Look, man, you didn't ask for any
of this. You were right. I lied.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 124.
107 (CONTINUED) 107
WADE (CONT'D)
I lied right to your face just to
get you to help me, and you did.
WOLVERINE
You didn't lie.
(beat)
You made an educated wish.
Wade can't help but smile through the emotion. Lotta road
traveled here. Wolverine pulls out the crumpled picture from
Wade's birthday. He kept it.
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
Come on. You've got a whole world
to go back to. I got nothin'. I got
nothin'. Give me this.
Wade is speechless with gratitude. Staring at the photo. We
see the faces of Wade's family. His friends. Vanessa. His
world. Wolverine pushes the photo into Wade's chest, before
he turns and walks towards the power room.
WADE
Hey!
Wolverine stops in the threshold, looks back.
WADE (CONT'D)
I waited a long time for this team-
up.
(beat)
And ya know something? You were the
best Wolverine.
WOLVERINE
Say hi to your friends for me.
Wolverine meets Wade's gaze. A small nod of acknowledgment.
Hard to read his feelings with his mask on, but his voice
tells a different story.
Deadpool MASKS UP.
Wolverine smiles almost imperceptibly. Nods. Steps inside the
blast door, turns to close it when WHAM!! He's clocked right
in the skull by a fire extinguisher wielded by Deadpool.
Wolvie reels and recovers, but it's too late:
SLAM!
Deadpool shoves Wolverine aside, slams the door shut and
SPINS the LOCKING WHEEL INSIDE. Wolverine pounds on the door,
yells at Deadpool through the window in the blast door.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 125.
107 (CONTINUED) (2) 107
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
*
Open the door! Why are you fucking
*
doing this?
DEADPOOL
(beat)
Because I'm Marvel Jesus. Or Spock.
Hard to say.
WOLVERINE
Wait, you fucking idiot.
Deadpool starts miming in front of the door.
DEADPOOL
*
Sorry, I'm just stalling. I think
*
I'm nervous about dying.
*
WOLVERINE
*
You don't need to do this.
DEADPOOL
(holding up picture of
friends)
*
I'm not doing it because I need it.
*
I'm doing it because they do.
*
WOLVERINE
*
Wade! Wait to be an annoying prick!
*
It should be me. You're going to
*
die in there, you dumb fuck.
Deadpool steps away. Wolverine puts dents in the steel door
with his fists. But it's too thick. Steps back and with a
running start, lowers his shoulder and bashes into the door,
testing the limits of his strength and the door's hinges.
108 108
INT. LOWER TVA - SUBTERRANEAN POWER ROOM - DAY
Deadpool stands in front of the snaking tubes pumping PLASMA
and ANTI-PLASMA to the Time Ripper high above.
He takes it all in. The powers at play are truly awesome.
DEADPOOL
Fuck it. Time to save the world.
Madonna's "Like a Prayer" reprises. Deadpool grabs the PLASMA
TUBE. The energy snakes up his arm, wracking his body with
pain.
With a truly super human effort he stretches his hand closer
to the ANTI-PLASMA tube to complete the circuit. Wolverine
rams the door futilely.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 126.
108 (CONTINUED) 108
Deadpool's arms widen, like the Savior on the cross. This is
his destiny. His sacrifice.
Pull out to reveal he's a SOLID EIGHT FEET from the ANTI-
PLASMA tube.
Mr. Paradox watches.
MR. PARADOX
He's not going to make it. It's
over.
Back on Deadpool. He stretches his fingers, so hard they look
like they'll pop out of their sockets. NOT EVEN CLOSE. Still
he keeps Reaching. Reaching...Reaching...
Suddenly a hand grabs hold of Deadpool's forearm
WOLVERINE MADE IT INSIDE. Wolverine came for him.
They lock eyes. Wolverine NODS.
Like a Prayer turns orchestral. Epic. Wolverine's arms
stretch wide. Two saviors. Side by side...
...but still a foot short!
That is, until Wolverine POPS HIS CLAWS. They extend...and...
THE CIRCUIT IS COMPLETED. The heroes are wracked with an
INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF ENERGY.
*
MONTAGE OF FLASHBACKS:
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D) *
*
This Wolverine let down his entire
*
world.
*
DEADPOOL
*
The Wolverine is a hero in my
*
world.
*
WOLVERINE
*
Whoever you think I am, you've got
*
the wrong guy.
*
LEMON
*
You were always the wrong guy.
*
Until you weren't.
*
DEADPOOL
*
My entire world is right here in
*
this picture. And I have no idea
*
how to save it alone.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 127.
108 (CONTINUED) (2) 108
*
MR. PARADOX
*
Wade, you can finally, finally
*
matter.
*
WADE
*
Vanessa...I want to see Vanessa.
*
WOLVERINE
*
For the first time in my life, I am
*
proud to wear this suit. It means
*
I'm an X-man. I am the x-man.
*
Energy that flares and SHOOTS UPWARDS. Sparks shower down on
them.
109 109
INT. TIME RIPPER CHAMBER - DAY
Cassandra is mid-rapture. The GROUND begins to shake.
She looks worried, then concentrates...absorbing more power.
INTERCUT with DEADPOOL and WOLVERINE below her.
Reality seems to VIBRATE around them.
The powerful forces at play test the integrity of Deadpool's
TVA-issued suit, while WOLVERINE'S MASK gets partially ripped
away, then his chest armor is BLOWN RIGHT OFF, revealing
insanely cut ABS. Even wracked with energy, Deadpool manages
to ogle him.
The energy feeding Cassandra changes...she screams in pain.
The TIME RIPPER atomizes, OBLITERATING CASSANDRA NOVA.
And presumably our HEROES.
VARIOUS SHOTS POST EXPLOSION
The aftermath of the destructive event that just took place.
A shred of Wolverine's shirt dangles from a gnarled piece of
metal.
Wade's birthday Polaroid floats, scorched and lifeless, atop
the coolant pool.
110 110
INT. TVA OUTPOST - CONTROL ROOM - DAY
MR. Paradox exhales. He didn't destroy ALL OF REALITY. Thank
God.
His head cocks at the sound of FOOTSTEPS marching down the
stairs from the street above.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 128.
110 (CONTINUED) 110
A full REGIMENT of TVA MINUTEMEN descend, followed by B-15
and a small phalanx (5) of TVA UPPER-MANAGEMENT. She takes in
the scene.
B-15
Paradox. You've been busy.
MR. PARADOX
Well, somebody had to be.
B-15
We had some strange readings from
this location. You wouldn't know
anything about an unsanctioned Time
Ripper would you?
MR. PARADOX
*
No, no. I wouldn't know anything
*
about an unsanctioned Time Ripper.
*
Maybe you should ask Cassandra
*
Nova, because I was assured she was
*
safely held in the void. But no,
*
she was here...and she fondled my
brain! How did you let this
HAPPEN??
B-15
You weren't involved at all?
MR. PARADOX
In stopping her, yes. Yes I was.
(sincerely emotional)
But not nearly enough. Not as much
*
as the men who went down there
*
after her. My men. My friends.
CUT TO: SPARKS FLY IN THE BURNED OUT WRECKAGE OF THE TIME
RIPPER.
MR. PARADOX (V.O.)
*
I warned them that they would be
*
completely obliterated. But they
went anyway.
Back with B-15, Paradox's voice quivers with genuine emotion.
MR. PARADOX
Like heroes. Because that's who
they were.
CUT TO: THE ABANDONED SUBWAY TUNNEL.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 129.
(CONTINUED)
Two shots. A wide and a medium of WOLVERINE dragging
DEADPOOL'S lifeless body. Suddenly, Deadpool puts his arm on
Wolverine.
ALT:
A wide and a medium of WOLVERINE bridal-carrying DEADPOOL'S *
LIFELESS BODY. Wolverine places his fallen comrade on the
ground.
He's lost him. Deadpool is gone.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
*
They just did what they had to do,
*
with no concern for their own
safety.
Back with B-15 and Paradox.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D)
*
The fact that we are all still
standing here is a testament to
their heroism.
*
CUT TO: THE MANGLED SCAFFOLDING OF THE TIME RIPPER CHAMBER.
Deadpool and a SHIRTLESS, PARTIALLY MASKED Wolverine arrive
from below.
MR. PARADOX (CONT'D) *
*
Anyway, there's nothing you or I
*
can do to bring them back now.
*
DEADPOOL (O.S.)
*
He has risen, baby girl.
*
MR. PARADOX
*
FUCK.
*
They approach.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Found your new Anchor Being.
Paradox's expression drops. How?
*
WOLVERINE
*
And we're doing just fine, you
piece of shit.
B-15 and the TVA Troops ogle Wolverine's BARE CHEST. Maybe
it's even the SAME "I LIKE ME" MUG-TOTING TVA staffer from
Act One! Only now his mug reads "STILL LIKE ME".
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 130.
(CONTINUED) (2)
TVA STAFFER
Fine indeed...
Deadpool tosses Wolverine a TVA JACKET from a chair.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Alright, put your greasy tits away
you preening slut.
Wolverine puts on the jacket.
MR. PARADOX
*
I don't understand. How are you two
still alive?
DEADPOOL
You were right. One of us would
have been killed. But you put a
Deadpool AND a Wolverine together?
Make `em hold hands while listening
to Madonna. Indestructible,
motherfucker.
B-15
(re: Deadpool)
Let's get this Deadpool variant
back to the Void.
*
DEADPOOL
*
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
PETER (O.S.)
Nope! Actually...
PETER rushes down the stairs.
PETER (CONT'D)
*
This one's home grown. Like me. He
*
belongs here.
B-15
And you are?
PETER
PeterPool. But you can call me
Peter. And I hope that you do.
Peter looks deep in B-15's eyes. Paradox clocks that moment.
MR. PARADOX
What the FUCK is happening here?!
Paradox is grabbed by the Minutemen.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 131.
(CONTINUED) (3)
B-15
You are under judgement for
operating an unsanctioned Time
Ripper.
*
(to officers)
*
Take him.
MR. PARADOX
I was just doing what you don't
have the GUTS to do-- GET YOUR
INSOLENT HANDS OFF ME!
Paradox is taken away through a TIME DOOR. B-15 assesses the
two ravaged heroes.
B-15
I'm grateful, gentlemen.
Deadpool takes a bow.
B-15 (CONT'D)
Let's hold the bows. You led an
omega-level mutant to this
timeline...
DEADPOOL
You're welcome.
B-15
(to Wolverine)
...and you shouldn't even be NEAR
this timeline.
DEADPOOL
He's welcome.
B-15
(to Peter)
And you...look damn good in that
suit.
PETER
*
I'm so sorry.
B-15 checks her HANDHELD DEVICE.
B-15
I want to show you something.
*
Something huge...
DEADPOOL
That's what scoutmaster Kevin used
*
to say.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 132.
(CONTINUED) (4)
*
B-15 shows them her screen.
B-15
Do you see that? Your universe is
regenerating. Whatever you did
here...you not only saved your
world, you spared your timeline
from extinction.
(she regards them warmly)
I'd rest up. I have a feeling your
*
work is only just getting started.
*
DEADPOOL
*
(whispering to Wolvie)
*
Until you're ninety.
B-15 goes to leave. Deadpool looks to Logan.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
*
Wait. We couldn't have made it out
*
of the Void without some
*
help...from some people that the
*
world kind of forgot. Is there any
*
way that you could maybe find a way
*
to bring them home?
B-15 tries to hide it, but she's impressed with Deadpool's
heart.
B-15
I'll see what I can do.
*
DEADPOOL
*
This might be an educated wish.
*
(winks at Wolverine)
*
But I promised my friend here that
*
the TVA could undo some pretty
*
awful shit in his timeline. What
*
would you say to that?
*
B-15
*
Change the past?
*
DEADPOOL
*
He did help me save the world.
*
B-15
*
And his past made him the man who
*
did it. There's nothing to fix, Mr.
*
Wilson.
*
(to Wolverine)
*
Logan.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 133.
(CONTINUED) (5)
DEADPOOL
(to Wolverine)
*
Guess you're fucked. Schwarma?
LOGAN
*
I could eat.
112 112
EXT. TVA OUTPOST/SUBWAY STOP - DAY
The ravaged and blood-soaked BUS is towed out of frame
REVEALING:
The ravaged and blood-soaked heroes, sitting side by side on
a bench across the street, finishing up their SHAWARMA.
WADE
You know, the Avengers discovered
shawarma.
WOLVERINE
(chewing)
They'd be lucky to have you.
WADE
Yeah.
An unholy MOAN fills the air. Wolverine sniffs the air,
repulsed.
Wade's face LIGHTS UP AS HE SEES SOMETHING EMERGING FROM THE
WRECKAGE:
DOGPOOL, waddling sheepishly up to the guys.
WADE (CONT'D)
Oh, fuck off! Come here, my little
cuntchkin! Yes, it's you. You're a
survivor. She made it!!
Wade scoops the hairless abomination into his arms, snuggling
her with absolute love.
WADE (CONT'D)
All's right in the world. Yes, it
is.
A beat. Wade turns to Wolvie.
WADE (CONT'D)
So. What're you gonna do next?
WOLVERINE
I'll figure it out. I always do.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 134.
112 (CONTINUED) 112
WADE
So... I'll probably see ya around?
WOLVERINE
Probably not.
A beat.
WOLVERINE (CONT'D)
See you, bub.
Wade nods. Wolverine stands up. Nods at Wade and heads off
down the street, getting smaller and smaller into the
distance.
THEN:
WADE
(calling down the block)
Logan!
Wolverine keeps walking.
Then stops. Turns back to Wade with the barest hint of a
smile.
We hear the first notes of Joe Cocker's, "WITH A LITTLE HELP
FROM MY FRIENDS".
113 113
INT. WADE'S APARTMENT - DAY
Deadpool takes his mask off as he leads Logan inside...
WADE
Al? I'm back!
Blind Al comes out from the bedroom.
BLIND AL
About damn time! You holdin'? I'm
all outta devil's dandruff and I'm
shakin' like an angry vibrator--
WADE
Thank you, Al. We have company.
Althea, uh... this is Logan...
BLIND AL
Nice to meet you, Logan.
LOGAN
Nice to meet you too.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 135.
113 (CONTINUED) 113
WADE
(off Dogpool)
And this little ancient anal shit-
nod is Mary Puppins. Or as I like
to call her, Dogpool. You want to
treat yourself to a little stroke?
Get the tongue.
BLIND AL
Oh my god. Motherfucker.
WADE
Right? It's like an armadillo
fucked a gremlin. Angrily. In a bed
of gonorrhea. And didn't stop until
the sun came up.
114 114
OUR SONG CONTINUES:
TIGHT ON WADE looking wistful. Grateful. We see what he's
looking at. His world. His universe... AKA: His friends.
Everyone from his birthday party is here. Over music, we see
Wade and Vanessa lock eyes. The chasm between them, perhaps a
little closer now. A flicker of hope. He continues looking at
her as Dogpool's tongue explores the inside of Wade's mouth.
As the camera pans across everyone's faces, we see the
relaxed joy among these pals.
WADE (V.O.)
Everyone wants to matter. Turns out
ya don't need to be Marvel Jesus to
do it. You just need to open your
eyes and look around. And if you're
lucky? You'll find a few friends.
Old friends...
We finally drift to a stop at an unexpected face... LEMON.
WADE (V.O.)
...And new.
115 115
INT. PETER'S APARTMENT - HALLWAY - DAY
Close on B-15.
WADE (V.O.)
Including some in pretty high
places.
She looks happy. Perhaps... smitten. She leans in and
kisses... PETER.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 136.
115 (CONTINUED) 115
We see we're at the door of an apartment. Peter looks
obscenely happy.
PETER
*
Thanks for your help with that
*
Lemon thing.
*
B-15
*
We don't speak of that.
*
They kiss.
A time door opens behind her. With an effortless cool, she
steps back in and DISAPPEARS.
116 116
OMITTED (FORMERLY INT. PETER'S APARTMENT)
117 117
INT. WADE'S APARTMENT - LATER
From across the room, we see Wade and friends laughing,
drinking, enjoying their time together deep into the night.
Logan catches Wade staring at Vanessa.
LOGAN
Give me the fucking dog. Talk to
the girl.
Wade turns to Vanessa.
VANESSA
Oh hi.
WADE
Hi.
VANESSA
You've been busy.
WADE
I did it for you. Even if you don't
want me. I did it for you.
WADE (V.O.)
Turns out I am the world saving
type. Just look around this table
if you want proof. And the best
part? Sometimes the people we save?
Camera slides slowly as we RACK FOCUS to the foreground where
we REVEAL:
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 137.
117 (CONTINUED) 117
The two legendary masks. Deadpool and Wolverine. Battered-to-
shit and worse for wear, but intact. Sitting on the counter
casually, but no less iconic.
WADE (V.O.)
They save us right back.
BLACK.
CREDITS.
Then:
118 118
INT. TVA - COMMAND CENTER - DAY
Deadpool is watching the bank of monitors in the TVA Control
Room. He's focussed on one specific camera: The PRISON TRUCK
with Jonathan, Deadpool, and Wolverine.
It's the footage from the CCTV camera inside the spherical
prison cell. It's grainy, but we can clearly see and hear
Jonathan.
DEADPOOL
(to camera)
I'm tired of these absolutely vile
rumors that I got Johnny killed.
Let's look at the tape.
*
JONATHAN
*
In the void, you're either food for
Alioth...or you work for Her.
DEADPOOL
Go on, Jonathan.
JONATHAN
And I'll tell you who "her" is...
Cassandra Nova. A megalomaniacal
psychotic asshole. A finger-lickin'
dead-inside Pixie slab of third
rate dime-store nut-milk and I'll
tell you what she can do...
DEADPOOL
I'm listening...
JONATHAN
She can lick my goddamn cinnamon
ring clean and kick rocks all the
way to bald hell. In fact, I don't
give a shit if she removes all of
my skin and pops me like some
nightmarish blood balloon.
(CONTINUED)
2ND BLUE REV. (04/17/24) 138.
118 (CONTINUED) 118
JONATHAN (CONT'D)
*
If the last thing I do in this god-
forsaken cum-gutter of an existence
is light that fuck-fox on fire, I
still won't die happy.
DEADPOOL
Holy shit, girl. You crazy.
JONATHAN
That's right, Wade. I won't be
happy til I've urinated on her
freshly barbecued corpse and husk-
fucked the charred remains while
gargling Juggernaut's Jugger-nuts.
DEADPOOL
Wow.
JONATHAN
And you can quote me.
DEADPOOL
`Kay.
Deadpool turns back to camera.
DEADPOOL (CONT'D)
(to camera)
Got you, fuck face.
BLACK.
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