Deadpool 2 end credits scenes almost had THIS shocking cameo

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Deadpool 2.

As it stands, the end credits feature appearances from Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds as a previous version of Wade Wilson, courtesy of footage from 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

However screenwriters Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese have revealed that they also wanted to have the key cast of the 2015 Fantastic Four reboot in there as well.

Given the poor performance of that movie, and the allegedly bad experience its team had with making it, it would have been quite the feat.

An initial plan, it seems, was to have another X-Force interview snippet in the credits, with Chris Evans auditioning – and Wade would recognise him not as Captain America, but as the Human Torch from the previous Fantastic Four incarnation.

And then after that joke, he’d be completely upstaged in the next credits scene by his successors.

“We had a subsequent scene where all the Fantastic Four came in together, including Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch, to kind of one-up the Chris Evans visit,” Reese explained to Yahoo!.

Another big cameo that did make the cut is Hollywood heavyweight Brad Pitt.

“I wasn’t there when he did that,” Domino star Zazie Beetz told RadioTimes.com.

“I think they got some studio space and did that later on, threw him in there.”

There were rumours that producers had added an extra day of shooting in LA quite late into the production process – which could well have been for Pitt to film his parts.

“I do remember hearing on set conversations that Brad Pitt might do it, woaaaaah,” Beetz added to the UK publication.

“So I wasn’t sure if it was actually gonna happen. I saw the movie last week and I was like ‘Oh he did it!’ So, that was great.”

Deadpool 2 is out now.