It was a weird day when Disney purchased FoxOpens in a new tab. The acquisition threw the status of a lot of films into question, including (maybe especially) Fox’s Marvel movies. Imagining Ryan Reynolds’ foul-mouthed take on Wade Wilson in the Disney realm seemed far-fetched. While Deadpool 3Opens in a new tab is absolutely moving forward under the Disney umbrella and will become an R-rated MCU film, it could have been something else. Ryan Reynolds sharedOpens in a new tab on Thursday afternoon that the pre-Disney Deadpool 3 would have been a road trip between Wolverine and Deadpool.
It’s critical to have open, honest and healthy discussions around mental health. By retweeting #BellLetsTalkOpens in a new tab you can make a difference. In case that’s not enough, before Disney bought Fox, Deadpool 3 was gonna be a road trip between Deadpool and Logan. Rashomon style. For real.
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) January 28, 2021Opens in a new tab
In other words, we could have had it all.
Hugh Jackman’s Logan alongside Reynolds’ Deadpool? It’s perfection. Jackman and Reynolds already have a long-running “feud”Opens in a new tab on social media. They regularly throw barbs at each other. We have no doubt that energy would translate well to their superhero counterparts. Imagine how many times Deadpool would have to stop for bathroom breaks and how perturbed Logan would be. And perhaps the best part of this cool as hell sounding film? Reynolds mentioned the story would have unfolded “Rashomon style.”
Named after Akira KurosawaOpens in a new tab‘s 1950 film Rashomon, the Rashomon effect is all about the unreliable narrator. Viewers see an event from multiple, contradictory vantage points, and thus have no idea who is actually telling the truth. Watching Logan (whose last appearance was in 2017’s Logan) and Deadpool play something like that out? Yeah, it would have ruled.
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We’re sure Deadpool 3 will be funOpens in a new tab and full of the irreverence we love. However, we’ll have this might have been in the back of our heads.
Reynolds dropped this Deadpool bomb while posting about Bell Let’s TalkOpens in a new tab, a Canadian program that intends to break the silence and stigma around mental illness. However, many have criticized BellOpens in a new tab, a telecommunications company, for making it more a marketing ploy than about mental health.
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