Shawn Levy On Filming DEADPOOL 3 In Real Locations And Honoring The FoXverse.

Speaking with Total Film Magazine, director Shawn Levy shared his decision early in pre-production to film DEADPOOL 3 with real, physical filming locations in mind.

“It bums me out that photos have leaked online,” he said of paparazzi photo leaks. “But this is the price we pay for committing to real locations. I made a decision very early in prep that even though Deadpool is now in the MCU, I didn’t want another Marvel movie shot on a green screen stage with digital set extensions.”

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With a host of characters from the 20th Century FoXverse (including representatives from the worlds of Daredevil and Fantastic Four) expected to appear in cameos and full-on roles, Levy teases how paying respect to what came before is important to Deadpool’s arrival in the MCU.

“And Deadpool and Wolverine are iconic Marvel characters; more specifically, iconic Marvel-of-the-Fox-era characters. We’re not going to pretend: ‘Oh, we snap our fingers, and suddenly that Fox legacy doesn’t exist, and it shaped a lot of what we now know as the MCU.’ Fox also shaped Ryan’s career, Hugh’s career and my career. So there’s a lot of history there, and there’s a lot of Marvel history at Fox. And certainly that’s a part of our storytelling.”

Source: Total Film Magazine (via /Film)