Kevin Feige Says Deadpool & Wolverine Set Leaks Were Worth Shooting on Location

Speaking with Variety, Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige revealed helium wasn’t astatine each bothered by the litany of Deadpool & Wolverine acceptable leaks to look implicit the past year—the spoiled X-Men cameos weren’t ideal, but he’s inactive rather proud of Wolverine’s canary yellow, comic-accurate costume.

In the interview, Feige admitted helium was alert meddling photographers were inevitable erstwhile filming outdoors, but moved guardant anyway. As helium states, “that was precise important to us. We didn’t privation this to beryllium a greenish surface container for each of the locations. We privation it to beryllium retired successful the existent world, and that ever comes with imaginable tradeoffs. We were successful a batch of unafraid locations and places that were acold distant from prying eyes—with the objection of drones.”

While camera-mounted drones operated by paparazzi photographers are thing new, Feige claimed it was a archetypal for a Marvel accumulation filming outside. “It was a caller acquisition for maine to person paparazzi drones flying implicit set,” helium explained. “Sometimes things look chill successful a behind-the-scenes photo, but astir often, they don’t look great. I deliberation radical are savvy capable implicit the years to cognize that’s not what it volition look similar successful the movie.” Undeterred, Feige added, “that being said, Wolverine successful that yellowish outfit looks chill from immoderate angle, drone oregon changeable done the trees.”

As good each know, Wolverine’s initially dismissed costume has taken astir 25 years of X-Men movies to yet materialize connected screen, but it appears Deadpool & Wolverine‘s costume designer, Mayes C. Rubeo, has yet cracked what was agelong presumed impossible. Screen Rant noted past April the finished costume really isn’t excessively dissimilar to Deadpool’s own, since “both suits are akin successful style, with the aforesaid patterning connected the abdomen, footwear design, gloves and belts, with the second each displaying the emblem of the respective hero.” The suit besides resembles a precise colorful mentation of the “body armor” BMX riders are occasionally seen to wear, truthful possibly an extreme-sports solution to Wolverine’s costume quandary has been lurking successful plain show each along, similar a dormant mutant gene.

You tin spot it for yourself erstwhile Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters July 26.