Warning: This article contains spoilers fromDeadpool & Wolverine.
fight sequence from the movie might’ve looked like.
It’s a big budget.
Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ Nicolas Cage as Johnny Blaze in ‘Ghost Rider’.Jay Maidment/Marvel Studios; Jasin Boland/Columbia Pictures
If you have too much time or too much money, it usually murders that kind of creativity.
So, yeah, you’re shrinking things."
“But we did talk to Nic Cage,” the actor continues.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck in ‘Daredevil’.
“We tried to get him, but he was a no-go….
I would’ve loved him.”
He returned to the role for the sequel, 2011’sGhost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’.Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/MARVEL
“Luckily, we got a lot of yeses,” Levy adds.
“Mostly because Ryan would just call them directly,” the filmmaker says.
“He’d often do an ambush FaceTime and put them on the spot.”
Cage more recently reprised a different kind of superhero role.
I had no dialogue [so had to] convey with my eyes the emotion.
So that’s what I did.
I was on set for maybe three hours."
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