‘Deadpool 2’ PG-13 Cut Will Feature Fred Savage Reprising ‘The Princess Bride’ Role
Before the weekend kicked off, the surprise news came from 20th Century Fox that anUntitled Deadpool Moviewould suddenly be droppinginto theDecember 21, 2018release date that was once occupied byAlita: Battle Angel. Word on the street is that instead of being an entirely new Deadpool movie, this will be a PG-13 cut ofDeadpool 2, and a photo posted online byRyan Reynoldswould seem to indicate how that’s going to work, and it involvesFred Savagereprising his role fromThe Princess Bride.
Find out more about theDeadpool 2PG-13 cut below.
When news of the Deadpool PG-13 cut was announced yesterday, details were almost non-existent.Collidereven noted that the studio is encouraging press to “guess away” what this movie was going to be whileDeadlinegave away at least part of the game by saying it would be a PG-13 cut of the R-rated summer blockbuster. But the above photoposted to Twitter by Ryan Reynoldsmay provide some hints.
InThe Princess Bride, the movie was a bedtime story being told to a young Fred Savage by his grandfather, played by Peter Falk. With this photo Ryan Reynolds has revealed, it would seem that Deadpool will be telling Fred Savage the story ofDeadpool 2(or maybe even bothDeadpoolmovies combined). And much like the grandfather cut out some of the scarier bits of the story, maybe Deadpool will skip over the more violent and R-rated pieces of the movie. That’s a pretty amusing and clever way to sell a PG-13 cut of the movie that fans otherwise might not be interested in seeing.
The question is whether the PG-13 cut of the movie will really lean into the toning down of the original R-rating. There’s some comedy that could be mined from intentionally coming up with the stupidest replacement lines for the more profane dialogue on the movie. Just think about new jokes arising fromDeadpool 2using the equivalent of theSnakes on a PlaneTV edited line, “I’ve had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane.”
Then again, maybe this move is really a Disney-guided decision (since they’re taking over 20th Century Fox) that will test the waters to see how much box office action they get out of a PG-13 cut of the movie, especially when it comes to families who otherwise wouldn’t have gone to see an R-ratedDeadpoolmovie in theaters. That might not mean future installments ofDeadpoolwould avoid going for an R-rating, but it may inspire Disney to release a PG-13 cut alongside an R-rated cut with any future sequels.
Either way, the presence of the Merc with a Mouth telling Fred Savage the story ofDeadpool 2is an enticing prospect, and I’ll definitely pony up the dough for a ticket to see it.
