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Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has cut ties with Marvel after expressing disappointment with his alleged treatment at the premiere of the latest film.
The artist and writer is the brains behind the foul-mouthed anti-hero, and has a working relationship with the comic book publishers lasting more than 30 years.
But he felt sidelined at the New York premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine, the first Deadpool film to be released since Disney acquired Fox, and has opened up about his perceived experience.
According to Liefeld, he felt ignored by Disney bosses, including Marvel Studios head Kevin Fiege, at the July 2024 event and was upset to discover he and his family had not been invited to the premiere afterparty.
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Liefeld, who receives large revenue streams for the character he created in 1991, revealed that, one month before the film’s release, he requested more involvement with the marketing and promotion.
He also wanted a special credit different to the standard one given to comic book creators at the end of the film – noting that his request stemmed from Marvel’s decision to give Roy Thomas a Wolverine co-creator status alongside Len Wein and John Romita, Sr.
He wrote in the email: “Marvel’s treatment of creators has never been their strength. Without the worlds, the characters and the concepts that we create – and in this specific case, the world of Deadpool – there are no films to shoot. No blockbusters to distribute. … I am not the easy button at Staples. I am the human imagination behind it all.”
Liefeld claimed that his response did not get received in the way he was after, tweeting: “My reps were screamed at today ‘We are NOT Fox!’ Tell me about it. Also hung up on.”
I liked it, but then it was a movie made for me. A lot of the people criticizing it say something like “I haven’t seen all the movies it references, so I didn’t get it.” Like, OK, the movie wasn’t made for you. It’s a movie with a lot of references and callbacks. If you went to see Scary Movie, but had never seen a horror movie, then that movie wasn’t for you. Or the people who saw Endgame as their first Marvel movie, and then complained that they didn’t know who any of the characters were at the end.
But also, I understand a lot of people don’t enjoy that sort of humor. And that’s fine. Those people also fall outside of the target demographic. If the concept of Deadpool using Logan’s dessicated adamantium corpse as nunchucks doesn’t do it for you, you’re going to have a bad time.
You don’t have to go see every movie. But if you want to enjoy the MCU, you should watch them all. Even the bad ones. If you don’t enjoy the MCU, you shouldn’t bother watching any of them.
Except Inhumans. You can skip that show, for it was terrible. It was so bad, when Anson Mount showed up as a member of the Illuminati in Multiverse of Madness, I giggled when Wanda took him out. As bad as you imagine it might be, it’s worse.
I’ve seen all of the MCU twice, once with my wife as they first came out and then again with my daughter when she started getting into them, so I got a lot of the references and callbacks. And it’s not that Deadpool using Wolverine’s bones as weapons didn’t do it, it’s more that there wasn’t anything very much new in the film, it felt like it was the same jokes as the first two just longer.
But, hey, different people enjoy different things and that’s ok.