As risqué as Deadpool & Wolverine was, the House of Mouse really wasn’t going to let this joke get in the final film.
Deadpool joining the MCU would have felt impossible a few years ago due to well... him not exactly fitting in with where the cinematic universe was at the time.
The first Deadpool film came out in 2016 and brought blood, meta comments, foul-language and 4th wall-breaking antics to the screen and fans loved it but were not confident in the merc with a Mouth joining the fray anytime soon.
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8 years later and somehow not only did fans get Deadpool in the MCU but they got a whole lot of fan service, namely Ryan Reynold’s Pool teaming up with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.
The box-office smash hit came in with plenty of fan service and meta-commentary and ultimately sliced and diced up the competition.
However, there was one joke that even Ryan Reynolds couldn’t get past Kevin Feige and Disney big wigs.
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Speaking to audience members at Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York in September, Reynolds even admitted he was worried Disney wouldn’t let him craft the film he wanted.
Revealing he was concerned Disney would act ‘like a red-line lawyer on every page’ but was pleasantly surprised when both Disney and Marvel were ‘such great partners’.
Since then, an image of the script has been doing the rounds on social media with the consensus being this is the one joke that they put their foot down for the 15- certificate film.
The exchange was set to take place when Deadpool and Wolverine arrived at the hideout of the surviving Marvel heroes, including Elektra, Blade, Gambit, and X-23.
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The names on the script are also coded, likely to hide the fact that so many fan favorite cameos would be in the flick.
For the joke that was cut Deadpool says: “There’s four? Wait, is it Magneto? Dear sweet god in heaven let it be Magneto because with him...:
Billy, (Wesley Snipes’ Blade) says: “He’s dead.”
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Deadpool then answers: “F*** what we can’t even afford one more X-Man? Disney is so cheap. I can barely breathe with all this Mickey Mouse c*** in my throat.”
In the final cut of the film, the majority of this scene is still in there with the difference being when Deadpool finds out Magneto is dead he jokes about essentially getting screwed by Pinocchio, conjuring quite the interesting image.
So all in all fans didn’t really miss out on much and Disney putting faith in Reynolds to continue the Deadpool franchise in the MCU worked in their favour considering the underwhelming phase 5.
Gerrard Kaonga