Not too long ago, before Andor season 2 kicked off, showrunner Tony Gilroy revealed that he believed a Star Wars horror movie was in development and now noneother that Ryan Reynolds has revealed that he pitched an R-rated Star Wars movie, having just enjoyed a massive hit with the MCU’s first R-rated movie, Deadpool and Wolverine.
In a new episode of The Box Office Podcast, below, the star discussed his idea for a Star Wars project.
“I pitched to Disney, I said, ‘Why don’t we do an R-rated “Star Wars” property? It doesn’t have to be overt, A+ characters. There’s a wide range of characters you could use,’” he says.
“And I don’t mean R-rated to be vulgar. R-rated as a Trojan horse for emotion. I always wonder why studios don’t want to just gamble on something like that.”
Ok, so he’s not suggesting R-rated in the way the Deadpool movies are R-rated but something altogether different.
“I’m not saying I want to be in it. That would be a bad fit,” he said. “I’d want to produce and write or be a part of behind the scenes. Those kinds of IP subsist really well on scarcity and surprise. We don’t get scarcity really with ‘Star Wars’ because of Disney+, but you can certainly still surprise people.”
I’ve always said that Star Wars could easily lend itself to more adult tales but let’s not forget that, although done with a more family-friendlt slant, Star Wars has health with zombies, witches, the walking dead and so much more, so maybe the R-rating isn’t necessary to tell the more adult stories, after all, the attempted rape in Andor season 2 and then Kingpin ripping someone’s head apart with his bare hands in Daredevil: Born Again season 1 were both too dark for these worlds in my opinion.
I know you have thoughts and I want to hear them all…
Listen to the whole interview:
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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