Remember Those Opening Credits Ini Deadpool?

The opening credits to the movie Deadpool were the first indication of what kind of movie we were about to be treated to.  I have never seen anything like them before, and I was laughing out loud while reading them...especially when it came to the writer's credit, or "the real heroes" of the movie.  But what gave them the inspiration to create them like that?  Blur Studios put them together (note: Blur studios was co-founded by Deadpool director Tim Miller) and Frank Balson (also with the company) explained exactly how they came to be in an interview at Silicon Valley Comic Con:

“The idea for the title sequence was actually already in the script from the very beginning, at least the main part: frozen moments in the middle of this f*cked up car accident. Originally, the titles were supposed to be actual titles, with actual actors’ names and stuff like that.  Very early on in the process, Ryan [Reynolds] was the only one who had been cast at that moment, and we started working on the pre-vis for the whole film. We started working on that sequence because it was going to define that whole car chase. It needed to finish exactly in this freeze-frame moment and look good.  We looked at different ways to put the guys, and were just going, ‘Okay, that’s a really cool thing to have’. At the time, since we didn’t know who was going to be in the movie, I was like, ‘okay, what do we have? So we have the hot chick, the bad guy, the CGI character,’ and just put all those names in there."

When the movie was nearly finished, they showed what they had to Tim Miller, Ryan Reynolds, and the film's producers, before they had a chance to go back and change the credits to show everyone's actual names.  The decision was made right then and there to keep it the way it was, and it also gave us one of the truest line of credits ever to be put up on the silver screen!

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