After 11 years, fans still think the Deadpool game cost $100 million to make, but one of the original devs says that's ridiculous - "$100 million is GTA-level money"
Jul. 30, 2024He’s the merc with a mouth, not the merc with the money
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“My challenge to game journalists, just in time for Deadpool and Wolverine: Squash the insane rumor that the Deadpool game cost $100 million,” Chris Baker, manager of licensed games for Marvel at the time of Deadpool’s release, says onTwitter. (Challenge accepted, by the way.) “It’s crazy how many people are out there all ‘how could this possibly have cost so much?!’…when it obviously didn’t. Not even close.”
In the thread that follows, Baker tries to track down the source of the claims about Deadpool’s budget, but, well… there doesn’t really seem to be a source. Instead, there are just a bunch of listicles andYouTubevideos repeating the claim that the game cost $100 million to make, but none of them actually point to the origin of that idea.
As the folks atTime Extensionnote, the closest thing to an origin for that budget estimate seems to be a joke within the game, where Deadpool himself suggests the game is going over-budget with an increasingly ridiculous money counter - but that counter stops around $7.5 million.
“I wasn’t privy to the actual budget,” Baker says in afollow-up tweet, “but $100 million is GTA-level money, at least back then.” And, in fact, the then (relatively) recent Grand Theft Auto 4 was estimated to have cost $100 million - anestimate providedby the game’s own producer.
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There are a lot ofupcoming Marvel gamesto keep track of, and given the pedigree of the AAA studios making them several of these titles could certainly top $100 million in development costs.
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