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DEADPOOL Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick Final Shooting Script - November 16, 2015 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX 10201 W. Pico Blvd.
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3 INT./EXT. TAXI CAB - MORNING 3 DOPINDER Shall we turn back? DEADPOOL No time. Not today.
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7 EXT. FREEWAY OVERPASS - DAY 7 DEADPOOL watches as the convoy approaches. He CASUALLY gets up as if standing up out of an easy chair... DEADPOOL On your mark, get set, go, let me go, let
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9 EXT. FREEWAY OVERPASS - MORNING 9 The S.U.V. slides to a halt ON ITS SIDE, PASSENGER WINDOWS UP. The rest of the CONVOY is forced to stop BEHIND. A BUNCH of MEN PILE OUT, each one carrying a BEASTLY GUN and POINTING it STRAIGHT at the disabled S.U.V.
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10 INT. FOYER, TOWNHOUSE - NIGHT - PAST 10 Title: 6 Years Ago A sleazy, mid-thirties MAN, GAVIN MERCHANT, decked out in DRAGON PRINT V-NECK and STUDDED JEANS, is MID-ARGUMENT with a late teen, pimply-faced PIZZA DELIVERY GUY, whose name-tag
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11 EXT. SKATE PARK - NIGHT - PAST 11 SKATE PUNKS carve on ramps built into the sides of a highway underpass. A group of TEEN GIRLS are perched at the bottom of the nearby stairs, texting each other from inches away. An old-fashioned GHETTO BLASTER bangs ‘SHOOP.’
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12 INT. SISTER MARGARET’S - NIGHT - PAST 12 Inside, society’s DREGS. Chief among them, BOOTHE: a HUGE, menacing hipster with a BOY SCOUT CAP and MASSIVE HANDLEBAR MOUSTACHE. He’s got some DUDE’s fingers splayed out on the bar, jabbing a KNIFE POINT between them as fast as he can.
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13 INT. SISTER MARGARET’S - NIGHT 13 WADE, in medium shot, TEARING UP at the famous Steven Seagal bar fight from ‘OUT FOR JUSTICE’ on T.V. as... SMACK... BAM... a REAL bar fight goes on - OUT OF FOCUS - behind him. WADE
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14 INT. ARCADE - NIGHT - PAST 14 A two-shot of WADE and VANESSA staring at each other, in profile. Wade looks really excited. WADE Time to put balls... in holes.
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17 INT. WADE’S APARTMENT - DAY 17 A MONTAGE of images: Fun, irreverent SEX around the CALENDAR between WADE and VANESSA, identified by various holidays. VALENTINE’S DAY SEX. WADE falls back onto a bed covered in rose petals with VANESSA on top of him. She has drawn a
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18 INT. WADE’S APARTMENT - NIGHT - PAST 18 A CHRISTMAS WREATH hangs on Wade’s wall. WADE (O.S.) If your left leg is Thanksgiving, and your right leg is Christmas...
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19 INT. ONCOLOGY WARD - DAY - PAST 19 WADE is sitting in a doctor’s office, VANESSA by his side, opposite a solemn ONCOLOGIST. Every image suggests BAD NEWS: A COMPLEX looking MRI IMAGE of the CIRCULATORY SYSTEM on a BACKLIT VIEWING TABLE. SWEAT STAINS under Wade’s arms.
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21 INT. WADE’S APARTMENT - NIGHT - LATER - PAST 21 A CLOSE-UP of a Deadpool ACTION FIGURE from ‘X-Men Origins.’ Mouth sewn shut. Blades implanted into wrists. In the exact same POSE we just saw the real Deadpool. Sitting in a nightstand DRAWER in Wade’s apartment.
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22 INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT - PAST 22 VANESSA, horizontal, limbs akimbo, ASLEEP in bed. She stirs, feels next to her for Wade. He’s NOT THERE. REVEAL WADE standing at the bedroom window. His P.O.V. of the moon makes it look FRACTURED by the cracked glass.
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23A INT. SISTER’S MARGARET’S - NIGHT - PAST 23A WADE dead-man-walks to the back of the bar. He passes BOOTHE and BEEF on his way. They nod solemnly, like cops at a funeral procession honoring one of their own. BEEF
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24 EXT./INT. GUADALAJARAN CLINIC WAITING ROOM - DAY - PAST 24 A DILAPIDATED, SKETCHY MEDICAL ‘CLINIC’ haunts the cityscape in GUADALAJARA, MEXICO. WADE (V.O.) For now, I’ll get through this with the
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25 INT. OPERATING ROOM - DAY - PAST 25 ABE lies shirtless on an UNSANITARY operating table, a tray of RUSTY surgical KNIVES nearby. A MAN with a pock-marked face stands over him in a white lab coat with blue-stitched cursive writing: ‘Dr. Delgado.’
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31 INT. WORKSHOP - NIGHT - PAST 31 WADE, ghastly, nearing death, lies BACK onto a STRETCHER, covered only by a FLIMSY HOSPITAL GOWN. He’s being wheeled down a dim corridor by two tough-looking ORDERLIES. In one hand, he holds the recruiter’s crumpled BUSINESS CARD.
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32 INT. WORKSHOP - NIGHT/DAY - MONTAGE - PAST 32 A MONTAGE of Wade’s treatments in the Workshop, set to the notes of JOHN DENVER’s inspirational classic, ‘I WANT TO LIVE.’ Juxtaposed with HARROWING VIGNETTES of Angel Dust and AJAX experimenting on WADE...
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33 INT. WORKSHOP - WADE’S TENT / WORM’S TENT - NIGHT 33 At last, Wade is laid back down on his table, only now in QUIET DARKNESS, MEEK, WITHOUT ANY RESISTANCE whatever. CUNNINGHAM (O.S.) Puppies.
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35 INT. WORKSHOP - NIGHT - PAST 35 Two ORDERLIES and ANGEL DUST finish strapping Wade down and attaching ELECTRODES to his head and chest. Wade is BOUND to a HOSPITAL BED that’s ENCASED in a large CAPSULE of PLEXIGLAS.
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35A INT. WORKSHOP TENT - LATER 35A Night. Eerily DARK, SILENT. An extreme CLOSE-UP of Wade’s hand, nails clenched into the surface of whatever he’s lying on. Is his skin... actually BUBBLING?
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37 INT./EXT. DEADPOOL’S LAIR - DAY - PRESENT 37 A mid-city DUPLEX. Borderline ghetto. Semi-furnished, ‘first apartment’ quality: futons and torchiere lamps. (CONTINUED) Deadpool Final Shooting Script 11/16/15 62.
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39 INT. DEADPOOL’S LAIR - DAY - PRESENT 39 ANGLE ON THE LIVING ROOM: BLIND AL stands up in comfy creme nursing shoes. Grabs her red-tipped CANE. And shuffles toward the front door... ...when she is TRIPPED by the ROOMBA. She FACE-PLANTS.
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41 INT. WORKSHOP - NIGHT - PAST 41 Back in the Punch-Bowl, Wade OPENS his MOUTH... within which he was HIDING a SINGLE MATCHSTICK, clenched carefully - dryly - between his teeth. He inhales... then SPITS OUT the match into his waiting PALM.
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42 INT. WORKSHOP - DAY 42 Morning’s first sunlight. WADE’s VOLTRON RING lies COMPLETELY MELTED in the DEBRIS. The camera follows it to Wade’s hand... then up his arm to his FACE. WADE’s eyelids flutter, and he COMES TO. He is naked, his
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DEADPOOL, TIDE STAIN-STICK in hand, tries unsuccessfully to get the blood out of his white suit. We get our first glimpse of BLIND AL, who’s sitting next to Deadpool at the laundromat, completely unfazed by the bloodbath:
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The recruiter enters a brightly lit room stacked high with bags of rice. Two heavily armed THUGS fall in beside him. The men scan the aisles as they move toward a door leading out into an alley. DEADPOOL
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WADE (derisive) So what do you suggest? A mask? WEASEL Not a bad idea! You... are... haunting.
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47 EXT. CITY STREET - DAY - PAST 47 DEADPOOL runs out to the street corner and WAVES. DEADPOOL Taxi! A TAXI - if you’ve been paying attention, you will recognize
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49 INT. DEADPOOL’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT - PRESENT 49 ...the PAST reaches the PRESENT. REGULAR SPEED AGAIN. DEADPOOL is sitting on his futon, Crocs on, staring at camera. DEADPOOL
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52 INT. ‘NO. 5 ORANGE’ STRIP CLUB - NIGHT 52 WEASEL Or as I like to call her, Irony! DEADPOOL navigates through a TIGHTLY-PACKED CROWD toward the MAIN STAGE, accompanied by WEASEL.
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58 INT. SCRAPYARD / ELEVATOR - PRE-DAWN 58 AJAX and Angel Dust stand at either side of a bound and gagged VANESSA. They are inside the metal cage of an INDUSTRIAL ELEVATOR, going UP. DEADPOOL (V.O.)
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61 INT./EXT. TAXI - MORNING 61 A TAXI drives across the city, its BACK BUMPER scraping the ground, throwing off SPARKS. (CONTINUED) Deadpool Final Shooting Script 11/16/15 94.
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63 INT. TAXI CAB - DAY 63 DOPINDER drives, head bobbing to a Bhangra Beat, HELLO KITTY DUFFEL still sitting in the passenger WHEEL WELL. On cue, Dopinder’s CELL PHONE RINGS. Dopinder reaches for it, then fumbles it away. The phone falls to the floorboard.
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66 EXT. SCRAPYARD - CONTINUOUS 66 Every MERC is pouring fire towards Deadpool’s position. He hunkers down with NTW, her hands clamped tight over her ears. Deadpool unzips a zipper, reaches into his suit at the crotch, YANKS. Grimaces. We hear fabric tear. He pulls his
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67 EXT. SCRAPYARD - DAY 67 COLOSSUS and ANGEL DUST engage in a BATTLE ROYALE. Colossus grabs Angel Dust by the SCRUFF of her NECK and HURLS her into an ABANDONED AIRCRAFT. CRUNCH. Angel Dust is on one knee, shaken, disheveled, one BREAST
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68 EXT. FLIGHT DECK - CONTINUOUS 68 Four MERCS continue firing down as the wing soars up. The WING SMASHES into them. All four go FLYING. Two end up DEAD under the wing. AJAX is thrown backward.
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70 EXT. FLIGHT DECK - CONTINUOUS 70 And now, we get what we’ve been long been waiting for: THE FINAL CLOSE QUARTERS BATTLE between DEADPOOL AND AJAX. AXES vs. KATANA, TEN STORIES UP... AJAX TAKES a MIGHTY, ROARING SWING with an AXE.
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73 EXT. SCRAPYARD - RUBBLE PILE - DAY 73 Black. A crack of light appears, dust sifting down through the beam. (CONTINUED) Deadpool Final Shooting Script 11/16/15 109.
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74 INT. NEW WORKSHOP - DAY 74 DEADPOOL (V.O.) ..will be so much easier if you do. We find ourselves in a newer, spiffier version of the WORKSHOP, where a LAB TECHNICIAN is strapping down a new

Deadpool

A sarcastic mercenary falls in love and becomes a superhero after undergoing mutant gene activation treatments.

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What makes 'Deadpool' unique is its self-aware humor and the ability to break the fourth wall, allowing the protagonist to engage directly with the audience. This approach, combined with a blend of irreverent comedy and genuine emotional stakes, creates a compelling narrative that appeals to both superhero fans and those looking for a fresh take on the genre. The screenplay's ability to balance outrageous action with heartfelt moments makes it a standout in its field.

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Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Superhero, Sci-Fi, Crime, Adventure

Setting: Modern day, Various urban locations including a city, a scrapyard, a bar, and Deadpool's apartment

Themes: Love and Relationships, Identity and Transformation, Dark Humor and Absurdity, Violence and Consequences, Friendship and Loyalty

Conflict & Stakes: Wade's struggle against cancer and his quest for revenge against Ajax, while also trying to protect Vanessa from harm.

Mood: Darkly comedic with moments of action and romance.

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  • Unique Hook: Deadpool's self-awareness and breaking the fourth wall, providing a fresh take on the superhero genre.
  • Plot Twist: Wade's transformation into Deadpool and the moral dilemmas he faces regarding vengeance and heroism.
  • Distinctive Setting: The chaotic urban environment and the contrast between mundane life and superhero antics.
  • Innovative Ideas: The blend of dark comedy with action and romance, creating a unique tone.
  • Unique Characters: A diverse cast with distinct personalities that contribute to the humor and emotional depth.

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