Of course, his memory returned, even if his reputation never quite recovered. “One minute he was threatening us all…and now…he’s like a helpless child!” declares Iceman, as the Vanisher says, “I must think…have to learn who I am… what I am?!” in the background. How do you beat a mutant who is… unbeatable?!!” As it turns out, the Vanisher proved to be particularly beatable after Professor Xavier used his psychic powers to give the character amnesia. 2, which boasted an entirely unearned cover blurb about its new threat: “The X-Men had to find out…. He debuted, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, in 1963’s X-Men No. The Vanisher was the second threat the X-Men ever had to face. Despite all of this, Telford Porter - yes, Telly Porter, you read that right - is nonetheless a character with a storied place in comic book history. For another, his power isn’t even invisibility in the comics: it’s teleportation. “We shot the plates for it and really just needed to get him on a green screen for a short window of time.”Īll but the most dedicated comic book fans likely aren’t familiar with Pitt’s Deadpool 2 character, who actually is a bit different in the source material.įor one thing, the Vanisher doesn’t look anything like Pitt. “It was a super small window, but once we had the yes, there was never a pressure - we had a whole window of post to get it done,” says Leitch. The Deadpool 2 team shot Pitt’s cameo over two hours in Los Angeles during postproduction in the spring.

The star had been considered to play the time-traveling mutant Cable before Josh Brolin came aboard. “It was a pinch-me moment.”ĭirector David Leitch had worked with Pitt for years as his stunt double on films like Ocean’s Eleven and Mr. “He immediately said yes,” recalls Wernick.

Reynolds reached out personally to Pitt, whose children loved the first Deadpool movie. “When he got tangled up…we just thought, ‘Oh my god, what a perfect idea for a celebrity cameo.’ And then we thought, ‘Who is the hardest get in Hollywood? Let’s call him.'” He was always a mystery,” Wernick tells Heat Vision. “We never saw Vanisher in the original script.

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