Though there was some apprehension surrounding how Deadpool, an R-rated character under the 20th Century Fox banner might be mollified when he made the jump to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Disney (after Disney purchased 20th Century Fox back in 2019 for $71.3 billion), those fears were allayed when both Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy assured fans that Deadpool & Wolverine would carry a hard R-rating and that the film wouldn’t mitigate the unfiltered natures the titular heroes.
And although Deadpool’s first film in the MCU was certainly unmitigated in its violence and also set a franchise record for the most F-bombs used in a movie, with 116 F-words used in the movie’s 128-minute runtime, there was one joke and one joke alone with Disney asked to be removed from Deadpool & Wolverine and replaced with something else.
Despite the fact that Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy both tongue-in-cheekily agreed to take this one omitted line “to their graves,” the official Deadpool & Wolverine script, which was posted on Disney’s FYC website, revealed the joke in question.
“F–k! What we can’t even afford one more X-Man?” reads the original line that Reynold’s Deadpool was supposed to say. “Disney is so cheap. I can barely breathe with all this Mickey Mouse c— in my throat.”
The one line that Disney asked to be removed from Deadpool & Wolverine was changed to: “F—k, now Disney gets cheap? It’s like Pinocchio jammed his face in my ass and started lying like crazy.”
Director Shawn Levy teased revealing the cut line in an interview not long after Deadpool & Wolverine began shattering box office records, including becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, although he stayed quiet about what the actual line was at the time.
“There was only one line in the entire movie that we were asked to change,” Levy told Entertainment Weekly. “We have made a pact, Ryan and I, to go to our grave with that line, but I will say that it was replaced with an equally dirty line of dialogue about Pinocchio shoving his face up Deadpool’s ass and starting to lie like crazy. I was like, ‘Ryan, that’s your replacement line in response to, ‘Can we clean it up?’ That’s Ryan Reynolds for you, audacious to the very edge.”
Do you think it makes sense that the one line that Disney asked to be removed from Deadpool & Wolverine was what it was revealed to be? Do you think the modified version was actually funnier?
