Ryan Reynolds Hopes Disney is Open to Doing Some "Wildly Divergent" Things with DEADPOOL 3
We really don’t know what is going on with Deadpool 3 at the moment. Marvel hasn’t officially announced the third film yet, but we know that they’re working on it! Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has also confirmed once again recently that they aren’t going to mess with the rating and that they have started working on it:
“I think we target everything we’re doing for kids and adults, so I think your question is more adult or R-rated. Other than Deadpool, which has already established itself as a certain genre and a certain rating, that we already said we would not mess with when we started working on Deadpool —which we have– other than that, we haven’t encountered a story or a storyline or a character’s journey that a PG-13, or the tone, or the ratings we’ve been using up to this point has prevented us. We haven’t been held back by. If we ever are, than certainly there can be a discussion that can be had now that there’s other outlets like Star. But that just hasn’t been the case. We’ve told all the stories that we wanted to with the tonality and the rating we have now.”
We have a new little update on the film from actor Ryan Reynolds. While promoting his new film Free Guy, he was asked whether fans would first see Deadpool in a new solo film first, or as part of an MCU project. In his response, he said he hopes that Disney is open to doing some “wildly divergent” things with the character:
“I think both are pretty warranted. I think you’re always gonna zig when everybody’s expecting you to zag when it comes to that character. As long as Disney’s open to doing some pretty wildly divergent or having some wildly divergent uses of Deadpool, then I dig it, man. I think it’s all great.”
So, the question is… is Disney open to doing some “wildly divergent” things with the characters? We’ll just have to wait and see. If they aren’t open to some of those things what does that mean for Reynolds’ involvement?
The script for Deadpool 3 is currently being written by Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin and Wendy Molyneux (Bob’s Burgers) with Reynolds overseeing the scriptwriting process. The actor went on to share that he is always trying to improve on the character with each movie he makes, saying:
“Deadpool, for me, is kind of like an anxiety-inducing tightrope walk. I always think when I’ve got Deadpool just right, I’m speaking from experience from Deadpool 1 & 2, that I need to make it 30 to 40% percent better than it already is. Even if I’m at the moment where I’m like, ‘This is perfect, this moment!’ Then, I stop, and I go, ‘Okay, this has to be 30% better than it already is.’
We have no idea how exactly Deadpool will be introduced into the MCU, but with the multiverse being blown wide open, it’s going to be incredibly interesting to see! Reynolds previously shared details on a storyline that he was working on with Fox that would have involved Deadpool and Wolverine on a road trip together. You can read about that here.