Ryan Reynolds Personally Paid $5,000 to Use a “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” Prop in “Deadpool”
- - Ryan Reynolds Personally Paid $5,000 to Use a “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” Prop in “Deadpool”
Tommy McArdle, Raven BrunnerOctober 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine; John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles -
Ryan Reynolds shared that he paid $5,000 to use a prop of the book The Canadian Mounted from Planes, Trains and Automobiles in his Deadpool movies
"I put my own salary back in [the first Deadpool], why stop now? So I licensed the book," Reynolds said during an Oct. 8 conversation about his documentary John Candy: I Like Me
Reynolds produced John Candy: I Like Me with director Colin Hanks
Ryan Reynolds is revealing the surprising prop he paid $5,000 out of his own pocket to use in the Deadpool movies.
The actor, 48, spoke alongside his Deadpool & Wolverine costar Hugh Jackman and John Candy: I Like Me director Colin Hanks after a screening of the documentary in New York City on Wednesday, Oct. 8. There, Reynolds said he paid $5,000 to use a prop book titled The Canadian Mounted in homage to the late John Candy's 1987 movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
"I called Paramount and said, 'Can I use the book, The Canadian Mounted that he's reading in Planes, Trains and Automobiles?' And I thought they'd just go, 'Of course!' " Reynolds said, when he was asked to discuss "Easter eggs" related to Candy's career that he has placed throughout his three Deadpool movies.
"And they were like, 'Yeah, sure — for $5,000,' " he said, to laughter from the audience. "I went 'Alright, back off. You can have $5,000. Okay.' I put my own salary back in [the first Deadpool], why stop now? So I licensed the book."
Reynolds' Deadpool character Wade Wilson is shown reading from The Canadian Mounted, a book that Candy also reads in the 1987 classic, in 2016's original Deadpool movie. The book also appears in Deadpool's two sequels, but as Reynolds said, Paramount — which distributed Planes, Trains & Automobiles — required him to pay $5,000 to use the book each time.
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Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine
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"Two years later and we're doing Deadpool 2 and I said 'Okay, give me the book,' and they're like, 'Yeah, $5,000,' " Reynolds recalled.
Reynolds has spoken about the impact Candy, the Canadian actor-comedian who died in 1994 at age 43, has had on his career.
"Deadpool and Wolverine is really kind of written in the spirit of redemption. It's a story about redemption... and it's Planes, Trains," Reynolds added during the Oct. 8 panel.
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Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine
When Reynolds' friend and Deadpool & Wolverine costar Jackman, 56, joked later in the panel that Reynolds asked to "borrow" $5,000 from Jackman to cover the costs for The Canadian Mounted prop, Reynolds joked, "It was for a book that isn't even a book, it's just a cover!"
John Candy: I Like Me is now streaming on Prime Video.
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