To keep the project on the right track, and to maintain the original creative team on Deadpool, Reynolds, as the screenwriters said on AMC’s Geeking Out (via Comic Book), made sure they were a part of the process every step of the way:
“We were on set every day. Interestingly, Ryan wanted us there, we were on the project for six years. It was really a core creative team of us, Ryan, and the director Tim Miller. Fox, interestingly, wouldn’t pay for us to be on set. Ryan Reynolds paid out of his own money, out of his own pocket.”
Ryan Reynolds paid to have ‘Deadpool’ writers on set when Fox wouldn’t
