Deadpool’s writers explain their Chris Hemsworth dance dreams in Spiderhead

polygon.com:

Nothing about Netflix’s dark science fiction drama Spiderhead immediately, obviously advertises it as “from the writers of Deadpool and Deadpool 2.” The film, based on George Saunders’ grim 2010 short story Escape from Spiderhead, stars Chris Hemsworth (the MCU’s Thor) as Steve Abnesti, a pharmaceutical rep testing exotic new drugs on semi-willing convicts in the high-tech Spiderhead prison. Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett) are prisoners who each have their regrets, but stick with the program because Spiderhead is more like a gracious island resort than a conventional jail, apart from them being guinea pigs in a series of twisted experiments. There isn’t a lot of Deadpool-style banter, laughs, or violence.

But for screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, longtime writing partners on projects like the two Zombielandmovies, 6 Underground, Life, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and both Deadpool movies (with a third on the way), Spiderhead was a passion project. “The New Yorker and Condé Nast were looking to exploit the material in their magazine so that they don’t go the way of the dinosaurs,” Wernick tells Polygon. “We immediately fell in love with it.” Top Gun: Maverick director Joe Kosinski was eventually brought on to direct, and Netflix picked up the project, which is available to stream now.

We spoke to the writing team about where Spiderhead andDeadpool meet, why writing a sci-fi drama was only slightly different from writing a comic action movie, and what Chris Hemsworth does every night in Wernick’s dreams.

This interview has been edited for clarity and concision.

Polygon: One of the two little details that really stood out to me in this movie was Chris Hemsworth’s little solo dance in his room. Was that