'Deadpool and Wolverine' director confesses the only thing Marvel has censored from the film
Although it will be Marvel Studios’ first adult-rated film, Kevin Feige also drew some red lines for Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy.
It may seem like there are no taboos for Deadpool movies, but nothing could be further from the truth. Marvel also looks at them with a magnifying glass, and all of their jokes (no matter how “beastly” and “transgressive” they may seem) have been pre-approved by Kevin Feige, the company’s CEO. And although it is true that in the case of ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ he has been more permissive than ever (not for nothing will be the first film with adult rating of Marvel Studios), its director, Shawn Levy, has confessed that they also had a red line that they were forbidden to cross.
“I’m so wary of what I can say but certainly there were early conversations about overt drug use,” explained Levy.
Still, Ryan Reynolds and Levy wanted to tighten the rope a bit and ended up including a joke in the movie about the subject. But not about drugs, but about how to stop them from talking about drugs. “And we thought it was an interesting conversation,” Levy says. “Let’s actually write a dialogue scene about having had it.”
In fact, this dialog can already be seen in one of the promotional trailers. Deadpool overhears someone say “cocaine” and asks them not to mention it, which is the only thing they are not allowed to say, to which his interlocutor responds with a hilarious series of euphemisms and variations of the term. You can watch it here:
We’ll see what else the movie dares to do when it hits theaters on July 25, 2024.
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