Deadpool
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The studio granted director Tim Miller a small budget to produce test footage for the film. When the test footage was leaked online in 2014, it received an enthusiastic response from fans. Fox eventually gave the project the green light a few months after the leak. “You can look back at an email chain from all of us, the core group involved in , saying ‘We should leak this, f—-,’ like three years ago,” Reynolds said in an interview with Yahoo. “Saying, ‘Hey, if this thing is going to stagnate, one of us should just say “Whoops, I slipped it online by accident.'” And nobody seemed to want to nut up and do that, myself included. Someone did it for us, years later, when we all completely assumed it was dead in the water.”