At the time, Levy assumed this was an Easter egg Deadpool & Wolverine ’s visual effects team came up with, but after the interview, the director checked with the VFX department and learned that this ship wasn’t a Master & Commander callback after all. He wrote in a follow-up email:

In a twist of fate, Deadpool and Wolverine's Shawn Levy was once in talks to direct the canceled Gambit movie – years before Channing Tatum finally made his debut as the card-dealing X-Men member.

Shawn Levy joins his stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman on EW's "The Awardist" podcast. Among the many Easter eggs in Deadpool & Wolverine, a certain seafaring vessel caught the attention of a few eagle-eyed viewers.