Ryan Reynolds reveals the macabreDeadpool & Wolverinepitch involving a non-MCUcharacter Disney rejected. Ryan Reynolds previously revealed there were multiple pitches forDeadpool & Wolverine, ranging from low-budget character studies to extremely unlikely blockbuster parodies. Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, and Disney eventually settled on the ambitious plot that becamethe cameo-filledDeadpool & Wolverine, to the pleasure of MCU andX-Menfans.
Speaking to fellow Marvel star Andrew Garfield in an episode ofVariety’s “Actors on Actors”,Ryan Reynolds reveals that he pitched a dark idea forDeadpool & Wolverine, where Wade Wilson somehow teamed up with the hunter who killed Bambi’s mominstead of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Of course, this pitch didn’t advance too far before Disney allegedly scrapped it, arguing"We don’t touch Bambi, Ryan". Check out Ryan Reynolds' full conversation with Andrew Garfield below:
Then I pitched one where I’m like, ‘It’s a two-hander with me and the hunter who shot Bambi’s mom.’ Which was, y’know… Their answer was, ‘We don’t touch Bambi, Ryan.’ OK, we don’t touch Bambi.
What Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool 3 Rejected Pitch Comments Mean
Ryan Reynolds Went Wild With His Pitches For Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverinewent through many early ideas before Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, and Marvel Studios agreed to tackle a multiversal road movie starring Ryan Reynolds' Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.It was rather obvious from the beginning that Reynolds' “Bambi” pitch wasn’t going to move forward, but such an out-there pitch proves that Reynolds wasn’t holding his imagination back.Ryan Reynolds pitched at least eighteenDeadpool & Wolverineideas, but there must be dozens more somewhere in Reynolds' mind.
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Avengers: Secret Wars can still recover an amazing multiversal montage sequence that Spider-Man: No Way Home and Deadpool & Wolverine deleted.
Some of theDeadpool & Wolverinepitches Ryan Reynolds has shared include aRashomon-like movie told from three different perspectives and"a smaller-scale Sundance film".Reynolds wasn’t sure the then-untitledDeadpoolthreequel would be green-lit as a big-budget blockbuster, so he conceived ideas all across the scale and budget spectrum. In fact, few characters were confirmed to be part ofDeadpool & Wolverine’s cast, meaning that Reynolds and Levy had to adapt their ideas constantly as narrative opportunities and limitations came and went.
Our Take On Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool 3 Rejected Pitch Comments
Ryan Reynolds' Scrapped Pitches For Deadpool & Wolverine Can Still Be Reworked
Just likeDeadpool & Wolverinegave Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine another chance to shine on the big screen after the original variant’s death inLogan,Deadpool’s integration into the MCUcan give Ryan Reynolds the chance to explore all the ambitious possibilities that wouldn’t have been possible in Fox’sX-Menfranchise.Deadpool & Wolverinepushed the boundaries both for its titular characters and for the MCU. If Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine stay in the MCU a little longer, Reynolds could keep raising the bar with more outrageous ideas.
