Ryan Reynolds reveals he had pitched an R-rated Star Wars movie to Disney
He had urged Disney executives to “gamble” on a new take on the franchise.
Ryan Reynolds speaks during a ceremony honoring Green Day with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds recently revealed he suggested a more mature Star Wars feature to Disney executives and urged them to “gamble” on a new take on the franchise.
Speaking on The Box Office podcast, Reynolds, 48, explained: “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.’ 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.”
Despite his enthusiasm for the project, Reynolds has no desire to star and would instead love to come on board as a writer or producer.
He said: “That would be a bad fit. I’m not saying I want to be in it. I’d want to produce and write or be a part of the 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.”
Ryan Reynolds famously starred in, wrote and produced the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time with Deadpool & Wolverine, but Disney executives do not appear to have been keen on his Star Wars idea.
Reynolds is currently writing Paramount’s Boy Band film, a comedy about a veteran boy band group.
