Ryan Reynolds hopes for Wolverine cameo in DEADPOOL.

Ryan Reynolds spoke with News Australia about finally getting DEADPOOL the greenlight and into production. The actor says his experience with the cast and crew has been “really lovely so far,” citing that he’s “intimately involved” with all aspects of getting the ‘merc with a mouth’ to the big screen.

After so many years of running the film through his head, Reynolds says the reality of the project is “always different in practice than it is in your mind, which by and large, I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older, is a good thing. We’re just diving into it, but it’s such a fun cast and crew, it’s been really lovely so far.”

On making a film on a budget, he says “I’m intimately involved, only because this movie doesn’t have the budget that those X-Men movies had; this is, comparatively speaking, a very small film. We have to make the most out of every dollar that we’re putting on screen. So you get involved in all sorts of things that you would never have otherwise gotten involved in, right down to what colour the walls are at the back of the set.”

Any chance of us seeing a Wolverine cameo from Hugh Jackman? “God I hope so, that would be really nice,” he says. “I dunno, we’ll see. It seems like he’s open to it, but it’s gonna be more of a scheduling issue than anything else.”

Surprisingly, Reynolds says that his career is seemingly fulfilled if Deadpool “goes according to plan.” Might retirement be in his near future? “Just artistically, if this goes according to plan I’ll definitely feel like I’ve done enough. No, nothing to do with the bank balance.”