(This story contained spoilers for Deadpool and Wolverine.)

Logan Co-author Michael Green has admitted that the Deadpool and Wolverine The opening scene pleasantly surprised him.

The screenwriter, who co-wrote Logan, in which Hugh Jackman’s superhero was killed, was recently revealed in an interview with IGN about his reaction to the latest R-rated Marvel film. In the film’s intro, Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool digs up a rotting corpse of Jackman’s Wolverine Logan and used his adamantium skeleton to eliminate a group of Time Variance Authority officers.

“People had warned me in advance: ‘Uh, I don’t know how you’re going to feel about the opening (of Deadpool and Wolverine)'” Green recalled. “I thought to myself, ‘I think I know what’s going to happen.’ And I didn’t know! I didn’t know they would go that far.”

The Green Lantern The author continued with the opening scene: “You shouldn’t take seriously that they dug him up and that it was really him. It felt less like they were trying to fix the end of Logan as they struggled with not feeling like they wanted to make a film that was as good as they wanted Logan was a huge compliment! I felt like it was nothing but a compliment.”

Ahead of Jackman’s return as Wolverine in the record-breaking R-rated film, some people, including Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige, were nervous about whether he would revive the popular character after it ended in the 2017 film. Logan.

“I said, ‘Let me give you some advice, Hugh. Don’t come back,'” Feige said Rich Magazine in May about a conversation with Jackman. “They had the greatest ending to the story with Logan. This is not something we should undo.'”

But the The Misérables The actor eventually convinced the Marvel boss that it would stay that way, as he would play a different version of Wolverine than his previous portrayals in the X-Men Movies.