Starting and ending with some questionable history, 1492: Conquest of Paradise makes Christopher Columbus out to be a discoverer who looks more for answers to what's out there and beyond the known edges of maps than a man with ridiculous demands for titles and high fractions of the trade he believed would come from his creation of a new, easier trade route based on the world being round.

Here he’s more of an iconoclast, the dark side of his character…

The following are notes that I took when listening to the commentary track with Deadpool Actor/Producer Ryan Reynolds and Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

Title Card opening is CG and Tim Miller proposed doing the whole film first with CG before realizing how that wasn’t possible

Doctor’s Office scene was the first scene shot and happened in pre-production due to how little budget they had

Production was 48 days, which is short for this type of movie; Ryan Reynolds…