Deadpool 2 almost had a surprising Chris Evans cameo.

The revelation was made by the film's writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick in a recent interview.

Discussing post-credits scenes that didn't make it into Deadpool 2, the writers revealed that there were plans for Chris Evans to reprise his role as his Fantastic Four character Johnny Storm – also known as the Human Torch – in post-credits scenes where he would interview for the X-Force.

However, those plans, as well as more concrete plans for a baby Hitler post-credits scene, were scrapped after someone came up with the actual (brilliant) post-credits scene.

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"There were different codas kicked around," Wernick told Uproxx.

"There were more X-Force interviews that were talked about. One was Chris Evans as Human Torch.

"We never got that far [with the Human Torch scene]," Reese added.

"Someone had the idea we actually did and we thought that was better. But we definitely had a lot more X-Force interviews with bizarre, random people coming in to interview."

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If you would have quite liked the opportunity to see Evans reprise his role as the Human Torch, hope remains.

We mean, there's always Deadpool 3...

Deadpool 2 is out in the UK and will be released on May 18 in the US. Book tickets here.

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