It may seem like an unlikely influence for an 18 certificate film like Deadpool 3, but director Shawn Levy – who don’t forget has his own Star Wars ideas brewing as he develops his own movie – used a key scene from Return of the Jedi as a marker towards the kind of scene he wanted in a key moment in the forthcoming MCU threequel.
“I vividly remember the scene in which Luke is hiding from Vader in the Emperor’s room and Vader gives the speech that ends with ‘If you will not turn to the dark side, then perhaps your sister will.’ It was dead quiet. Pin-drop silence. Forty seconds of stillness from the audience, then the spectacle and emotion, not just in my eyeballs, but in my heart to this day.”
“For one key scene in the movie, I said to my stunt and action team, ‘Guys, this is the Jedi moment,’ I pulled up that scene of Vader and Luke on my phone and restudied how it was photographed, how it was blocked, the framing, the tempo.”
“That’s a forever memory. And that’s a treasure.”
Deadpool 3 still has a release date of 24th May 2024, a date highly unlikely due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA industrial action.
