Deadpool may be on its way to being a real and proper R-rated superhero movie, with all the violence and graphic language you’d expect from such a thing, but there are still some lines you just don’t cross—unless you’re Ryan Reynolds trying to push boundaries as Deadpool, I guess, and then that stuff just gets cut.
According to director Tim Miller, when speaking at a fan event in L.A. (via ComicBook.com), “there was a bunch of stuff” that wasn’t suitable even for the movie’s intended adult audience. He even had to let go of some stuff that he enjoyed, like “an extended version [of a fight scene with] a couple more beats of violence there that I liked.” On the other hand, some things, like a bit of improvisational material in that bar scene from the trailer, he was more immediately opposed to:
That bar scene was particularly mean and offensive to a lot of people because T.J. [Miller, who plays Deadpool sidekick weasel,] and Ryan [Reynolds] got together and wrote a version of the scene that we just said, “Oh my God, this is too far.” I mean there were so many people offended it would have really been—we couldn’t do it. It was just mean and so I said, “No. We don’t have to do that.”
For T.J. Miller’s part, he described some of the material that was cut, which honestly doesn’t really sound worse than what we saw in the red band trailer:
We did kind of go back and forth and it just got more and more hateful. Ryan’s a very, very good improvisor, and he’s very funny and, like, one of the sweetest guys. It was very … heavy duty. There were some riffs that I don’t think—”You look like a trucker took a shit on your shoulders and then shaped ears onto it.” So it’s like, we’re missing some of those things.
But Tim Miller clarified that even that example was holding back, and we’ll probably never hear what was really so offensive. I think I’m equal parts comforted and disappointed on this one. I’m glad that they’re exercising some restraint, because things could really easily go off the rails here, but I’ll also forever be curious about just what was so offensive that it wouldn’t even fit in this movie, given some of the jokes already in the trailers.
(via CBR, image via 20th Century Fox)
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