Ryan Reynolds Describes the "Idiotic" Pitches He Made for DEADPOOL 3 - "We Don't Touch Bambi, Ryan"

Deadpool & Wolverine was a mega-hit and milestone for Marvel this summer. But it was a long road to get there.

It was always known that Ryan Reynolds was going to return to star in the film, but before Hugh Jackman signed on to return to the role of Wolverine, the film was just known as Deadpool 3, and it went through a lot of iterations.

Reynolds has said before that one version of the threequel featured the death of Colossus, and another made Dopinder a co-lead.

Now Reynolds has opened up a little more about previous versions of the script in a recent conversation with Andrew Garfield for Variety's Actors on Actors. Reynolds called Marvel Studios and Disney "incredible partners," adding:

"It was meant to be, because the first pitch I had for Marvel and Kevin Feige five years ago was a Deadpool-Wolverine movie in the Rashomon style, which is his perspective, then mine, then an objective. And they said no. 

“So then I pitched the most idiotic movies. One was a Sundance movie I pitched them - no special effects, no conflict. And then I pitched one where it’s a two-hander with me and the hunter who shot Bambi’s mom. Their answer was 'We don’t touch Bambi, Ryan.'

"So it was like a year and a half of tap dancing until Hugh called and said, 'I want to come back and do this.' I don’t know if you found this in 'We Live in Time,' but there’s an element of, you have to have the confidence to fake it till you make it. Life isn’t a TED Talk; it’s winging it."

As usual, it sounds like the best movie got made. The future for Deadpool in the MCU is wide open, as it is for Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man. Maybe the pair will cross paths one day. We will just have to wait and see!