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The three things that Disney is contractually forbidden to do, and that ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ did without a hitch
Deadpool does not obey any imposed rule.
One of the most outstanding companies in the movie industry year after year is Disney, achieving huge grosses with releases of all kinds. One of the most important of 2024 was ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’, the Marvel Studios production starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, a film that stands out for a hooliganism that even makes it skip some rules that the American company requires for the vast majority of its productions.
What is it about? Director David Lowery, known for films like ‘Peter Pan and Wendy,’ ’Peter and the Dragon,’ or ‘The Green Knight,’ among others, spoke in 2016 about the three things the company contractually won’t let its productions do: beheadings, impalements, and smoking. “Those are literally the three things you are not allowed to put into a Disney film[...]. They literally have those words in the contract as things you’re not allowed to do.,” Lowery points out.
Disney and its strict rules
These have been imposed over time, with smoking being the most recent of them all. So what about ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’? Marvel Studios' punk flick has been given special treatment, with all three of Disney’s bans appearing in the film.
First, Henry Cavill’s cameo as an alternate version of Wolverine smoking a cigar; second, Wolverine decapitating Sabretooth and Deadpool himself taking his head; finally, several deaths that could be considered impalements, and if they had wanted to, they certainly could have had an impact on that. The reason they were able to skip the restrictions? Being an R-rated movie, the first from Marvel, may have allowed Disney to be more lenient with Shawn Levy’s work.
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