Deadpool & Wolverine eviscerated the R-rated movie record, raking in $205 million in its opening weekend and amassing over $1.3 billion at the global box office as of this writing — which is outstanding news not only because we’re big fans of the characters and it’s proof that people are still willing to go to movie theaters in a post-Covid world… but because Disney will be able to pay the costume designers too.
What, you thought we were going to say pay Hugh Jackman or Ryan Reynolds?
Nope. That’s because the Deadpool & Wolverine costume designers who put together a blue-and-yellow comic book Wolverine costume so sublime it had grown men sobbing on set apparently didn’t cut corners when it came to any of the costume expenditures.
According to a recent YouTube interview with Deadpool & Wolverine editors Dean Zimmerman and Shane Reid, Wolverine’s classic brown costume, which the character makes an appearance in during a montage where Deadpool goes searching for a variant Wolverine willing to help him out across myriad timelines, cost a whole $100,000 dollars to craft. As the old saying goes, “Looking good costs money, bub,” and Wolverine’s classic brown costume is no exception.
“It’s one of those things that’ll stand the test of time,” Zimmerman said. “Just the costumers…it’s all handmade. It’s all done to an inch of Hugh’s body. To shoot it all as well.”
The editors also added that there were a whole slew of other Wolverine variants that were proposed to be included in the film but had to be cut due to economical reasons — which makes the cost of Wolverine’s classic brown costume all the more logical.
“One of our storyboard artists was a huge comic book fan and he gave us a list of, like, ten of [the Wolverine variants],” Zimmerman added. “There was also, and maybe no on really likes to hear this, time and budget issues you have to deal with as well.”
“They’re expensive. To build this kind of stuff…we have to get a little economical with what we could actually come up with and do. So, yeah, ‘Hugh, can you take your shirt off be bolted to a cross?’ ‘Yeah, I can do that, no problem.’ ‘Great, let’s get a bunch of pink skulls, throw ‘em down there, and light it in the way of the comic book.’ ‘Can you be an old man?’ ‘Sure!’ They were all thought out but also done with budget in mind and also time. We didn’t have much time. Once we resumed shooting, our deadline on this movie was so tight. When we went back to photography in London, we did have a finite amount of time and even coming up with all those ideas, once we got back, we were like, ‘Hey everyone, we’re going to do this’ and everyone’s heads are exploding. How are we going to do this in the time we have left?”
Are you surprised that Wolverine’s classic brown costume cost $100,000 to make? Or does that seem like a reasonable amount for making one of Logan’s most beloved outfits come to life with comic book accuracy in a big movie production? Let us know in the comments.
