- For two weeks this holiday season, Deadpool 2
is back in the theaters as a PG-13 movie
called Once Upon A Deadpool, with 20 minutes of new footage,
every (bleep) pronounced as fudge, and Fred Savage.
While a PG-13 Deadpool has many fans excited
to see how far Ryan Reynolds could push a family friendly
Deadpool, it does raise a disturbing question.
Will watching Once Upon A Deadpool give Disney permission
for a PG-13 Deadpool in future movies?
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Disney went on a buying spree in recent years
to pick up Marvel Studios, LucasFilms and 21st Century Fox,
which owns the film rights to Deadpool and X-Men.
One of the biggest fears that many fans have
is the Disneyification of R characters like Deadpool
into PG-13 Disney characters.
A prime example of this would be the recent Venom movie.
Sony owns the film rights to Spider-Man
and related characters,
including the half-human half-alien known as Venom.
Sony worked with Marvel Studios to make it possible
for Spider-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
with a cameo in Avengers: Civil War,
a reboot in Spider-Man: Homecoming,
and a major role in Avengers: Infinity War.
Spider-Man, however, already fits the PG slash PG-13
comfort zone of Marvel Studios and Disney.
Venom was an R-rated movie that wouldn't hold back
on the language and the gore, especially when it came
to Venom eating people, according to the early trailers.
A funny thing happened on the way to the movie theater:
Venom became PG-13.
A last minute edit made sure that no one said fudge
and no turds were flying in the wind,
disappointing hardcore fans who wanted an R movie.
The PG-13 edit made a mess
out of what could have been a very good R movie.
If Venom was ever brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe
for a future Spider-Man movie,
it would have to be a PG-13 Venom.
Disney won't allow villains to say fudge every five minutes
to your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
So Venom got neutered into a PG-13 movie.
That is a shame since some of the best superhero movies
for the last 20 years were R movies.
The precursor to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
was Blade that came out in 1998, and Wesley Snipes
is in talks to reprise his half-human
half-vampire character in a reboot movie.
I was at WonderCon 2009 in San Francisco
when the first 20 minutes of The Watchmen was shown,
based on a 1986 graphic novel about flawed superheroes
that changed the way readers view superheroes.
Hugh Jackman played an older version of Wolverine
for the last time in Logan, leaving behind
blood splattered violence in his dying wake.
Deadpool, of course, had proven that R-rated superheroes
can make a lot of money for the studios.
And let us be honest about the R rating,
it doesn't stop parents from bringing
their young children to see these movies.
Once Upon A Deadpool is a PG-13 trial balloon
by Disney to see if the public would accept
a less profane Deadpool and pave the way to bringing him
into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I hope they do a better job with PG-13 Deadpool
than they did with PG-13 Venom.
Thank you for watching.
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