Disney bans Ryan Reynolds from using classic animation works in ‘Deadpool 3’

Deadpool & Wolverine was the only Marvel movie released in 2024, which makes sense since it’s also the best live-action Marvel movie in recent years. The film is a poignant love letter to nearly 25 years of Fox Marvel movies, including, among other things, heroes who have been left behind, forgotten or abandoned as the Marvel Cinematic Universe dominates pop culture conversation. fulfills its role as

Concerns that Deadpool’s character would lose his bite and humor once incorporated into the Disney-owned MCU turned out to be unfounded. The mercenary with a mouth remains as irreverent as ever in Deadpool & Wolverine, but the film also provides some much-needed meta-commentary on the current state of the MCU, as you’d expect. failure, etc.). You can also leave the earth and do something interesting in the multiverse so far). This is a rare case of a movie managing to avoid becoming a disastrous Frankenstein’s monster despite a long wait for a sequel and years of stalling in early development. Sure, it took a while to make, and Ryan Reynolds (the real architect of the Deadpool movies) threw a lot of ideas at the wall before settling on the final version, but it was worth it.

Still, I can’t help but think about what happened. Speaking with Andrew Garfield for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, Reynolds talked about his initial pitch to Marvel Studios about the film’s plot, which was quickly and vehemently rejected. “I threw it thinking, ‘This is me and the hunter who shot Bambi’s mom,'” Reynolds said, much to Garfield’s amusement. “Their answer was, ‘We’re not going to touch Bambi, Ryan.’ Okay, we’re not going to touch Bambi.”

According to Reynolds, he spent about a year and a half pitching various ideas for Deadpool and Wolverine before Hugh Jackman decided to return to his role as Logan/Wolverine before moving forward. It has become much easier. Among Reynolds’ other suggestions for the third Deadpool movie is a story inspired by Rashomon, where the Dead We would have seen the same story unfold from both Poole’s and Wolverine’s perspectives. The other was to create a Sundance-style drama without special effects or conflict, which (according to Reynolds) would include a four-minute drama in which Deadpool goes to the bathroom. “It’s raw and vulnerable and it tells the viewer that’s where we’re going,” he added. Unsurprisingly, Disney and Marvel Studios also rejected this.

Still, Deadpool & Wolverine manages to do a lot within its limits. Disney and Marvel had no problem with jokes about pegging in movies (which Kevin Feige had to explain to Marvel executives), but they drew the line at jokes involving Disney itself. Reynolds promised never to say this line in public, but thanks to the release of the Deadpool & Wolverine script, we now know what the forbidden gag means. In case you missed it, there’s a moment in the script where Deadpool complains that there are no more Fox Marvel characters to help him. “Disney is really cheap,” he says. “I’ve got Mickey Mouse shit stuck in my throat and I can barely breathe.” Instead, the joke is an equally dirty line in which Pinocchio sticks his nose somewhere and lies like there’s no tomorrow. has been replaced by

Lesson learned, Disney: Stay away from Bambi, but Pinocchio? He’s fair game.