At the Toronto International Film Festival, Reynolds finally copped to leaking the Deadpool footage to get fans hyped, thus proving the idea had legs. From EW: “Yes, I cheated a little, but I think I ...

Ryan Reynolds finally admitted that he personally leaked the Deadpool test footage online in 2014. The animated test footage received widespread enthusiasm from fans and led 20th Century Fox to ...

Ryan Reynolds, Tim Miller, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. For more than a decade, these four names have made up a suspect list of who was responsible for leaking the 2014 “Deadpool” footage — a move ...

The creation of Deadpool as we know him today began with a secret leak that changed Hollywood forever. In 2014, unseen test ...

Could Reynolds see the cinematic potential in Deadpool, or did he just get extremely lucky that everything's worked out in his favor? Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes The big reason we have a ...

It has fallen into the realm of movie legend. 20th Century Fox was hesitant to greenlight an R-rated, more comic-accurate Deadpool movie with Ryan Reynolds given how poorly X-Men Origins: Wolverine ...

At the Toronto International Film Festival, Ryan Reynolds spoke about who leaked the Deadpool test footage. He explained how the 2014 incident sparked a major fan response that convinced 20th Century ...

In 2012, filmmaker Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds produced a CGI Deadpool test reel for 20th Century Fox executives as part of a pitch to finally bring a comic-accurate Wade Wilson to the big screen.