"The title character was Wade Wilson (aka Deadpool) (Ryan Reynolds), a mercenary whose life was significantly altered when a top-secret Weapon X program experiment (to cure terminal cancer by injecting him with a serum and torturing him) left him a mutant who was scarred and disfigured, but with rapid healing and regenerative powers.The quietly charming, sweet-natured Melanie is nothing but loving toward Scarlett: "I""ve always admired you so.As Laurie was restrained by the younger Michael, she saw another vision of Deborah -- and was ordered to repeat: "I love you, Mommy.It was also shot in sequence, so that E.T.""s departure scene at its conclusion would contain genuine emotion.Spielberg was working simultaneously on these two suburban-based stories:E.T.(as director) andPoltergeist (1982)(as producer) - but while one was a fantasy story, he other was a nightmarish horror story.With their special skills as mutants, combined with their violent tendencies and unique regenerative abilities, they were well-suited to being soldiers.