Ryan Reynolds reveals a plan to disguise "Deadpool & Wolverine" as a fake movie titled ‘Alpha Cop’

Ryan Reynolds recently appeared on “Hot Ones” alongside his “Deadpool & Wolverine” co-star Hugh Jackman, revealing a scrapped plan for their Marvel movie. Reynolds explained that the initial idea was to shoot a fake movie titled “Alpha Cop,” which was deliberately made to look bad. “The original idea with this movie was to shoot a fake movie called ‘Alpha Cop,’ that was intentionally bad,” Reynolds said. He described “Alpha Cop” as a film about “two guys that were sharing one brain and together they make the perfect cop.”

The tagline for the fake movie read: “Two cops, one brain, all balls.” The plan was to promote “Alpha Cop” and surprise audiences when, five minutes in, the Marvel logo would appear, revealing the true movie: “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Reynolds noted the risk involved, stating, “It was meant to be kind of horrible. Like 10 people in America would go to see this movie on opening weekend and five minutes into the movie the Marvel logo would flip up and it would actually be ‘Deadpool & Wolverine.’ The problem is that if you managed to get down to the last minute and it got blown, it would just be heartbreaking.”

Despite the ambitious plan, Reynolds and the team decided not to proceed with it. However, they successfully kept many of the film's biggest surprises from leaking. Executive producer Wendy Jacobson told GamesRadar+ that the studio planted fake leaks both online and in-person “in order to protect the secrecy” of the cameos in the movie.

Director Shawn Levy also spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the numerous cameos in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” emphasizing that they are not the focus of the story. “We didn’t want any of the cameos or characters to be the story of the movie. But they are peppered in throughout,” Levy said.

“Deadpool & Wolverine” is set to open in theaters on July 26.