Since it became known that Deadpool, the loudmouth mercenary, would be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the doubts of the fans have been growing. Will he appear with two mouse ears making white jokes? Will they lower the level of sleaze to adapt it to a level for all audiences? Will jokes be censored? The writers have spoken with The Playlist to calm things down: it will be the same character as alwaysonly using the Marvel characters to laugh at them.
There will be no slaughter in jokes
With the purchase of Fox, Disney also took over the rights of the mutants, yes, but it seems that beyond multiversal winks, only Deadpool will continue his saga as if nothing had happened. It could be a bit scary but it seems that the writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, responsible for ‘Zombieland’ and the future ‘Spiderhead’ on Netflix they are very confident in their future.
We want to make it great. We’re in the lab working with Ryan Reynolds all the time and having a ton of fun. So hopefully that will carry over and the world will be entertained. But you know, it’s a marriage between Fox and Disney, they’re two different universes and it’s not easy. But it’s also a fabulous challenge. We are enjoying it.
It wasn’t easy all the time. Recall that in an initial phase, Disney hired Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, from ‘Bob’s Burgers’, to take care of the script in the fall of 2020, something that the writers do not remember with special affection, for whatever reason. “Yeah, that happened. And she look, it came out the way it came out, but we’re excited to be back. We couldn’t be happier to be where we are. now, in the mad scientist’s lab creating fun stuff”. If between the lines you’ve also read “We’re still mad”, that’s because they’re practically saying it.
That does not mean that things have not changed: they promise that It will be a movie with tacos, violencereferences to the MCU and all those things that we enjoy, without Disney having censored any joke. For now, at least.
We were used to doing things our way, so there are differences, but I think the most important thing is that Marvel has been incredibly supportive. They’re going to let Deadpool be Deadpool, you know? It’s not like there’s some joke where they can say “This is going too far”, it could happen, but so far there has been nothing but support.
We may not see ‘Deadpool 3’ until 2024, given that the script is not even finishedbut we know for a fact that we will see the face of Ryan Reynolds stuffed in that red suit again. Will it be worth it? At least these statements leave us calmer.
All we’ve had is “How can we help you?”, “What do you want to use from our universe? How can we make your life easier?” or “It’s not going to be a Disneyfied Deadpool.” They are incredible and now it is up to us to justify that faith.
Let’s cross our fingers (and grab our supply of explosions and bad jokes)!
