Ryan Reynolds have revealed that “entire character arcs changed” when Deadpool & Wolverine resumed production following the actors’ strike.

Production on the upcoming Marvel movie was forced to stop between July and November last year due to the SAG-AFTRA strike and Reynolds and director Shawn Levy used that time to assess what they had already filmed and make tweaks accordingly.

“If you could, from a fiscal point of view, stop a movie right in the middle, assess everything that you have, edit the film, edit the hour of footage you have and put it together and then just zoom out, (it would be great),” Reynolds joked at a press conference in London. “Coming back after the strike, I mean, entire character arcs changed.”

Levy, who wrote the film with Reynolds and scribes Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Zeb Wells, explained that assembling the existing footage informed them of what the movie needed.

“You’ve got to listen to your movie. Whatever your original intentions were, listen to your movie, it’s going to tell you what it wants to be,” Levy shared. “We edited the hour of the movie that we had shot so we were able to sit and listen to our movie and when we came back (we adjusted it).”

Emma Corrin, who plays Cassandra Nova in the film, revealed that they didn’t start filming until production resumed in November. Before their first day on set, they were shown the footage to help them get a sense of what Reynolds and Levy wanted.

“It was incredible, I would see completely what the movie (would be),” Corrin commented. “Because you shoot out of chronological order all the time, it’s quite confusing when you’re on the first day or whatever because you don’t really know what you’re catching up with… so I could literally see what you wanted her to be and what you needed her to be in those moments.”

Deadpool & Wolverine will be released in cinemas on 25 July.

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