The recently wrapped Andor on Disney+ was the most adult Star Wars content we’ve ever seen in nearly fifty years. However, we wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s R-rated. It came close a few times with its adult themes, but did not cross the line into adults only. But if you ask Ryan Reynolds, he thinks it’s time. We’ve learned (via The Hollywood Reporter) that while appearing on The Box Office podcast recently, Reynolds said he pitched Disney an R-rated Star Wars project. However, unlike his most famous R-rated project for Disney, Deadpool& Wolverine, he wouldn’t actually star in it but would instead produce it. Here’s what he had to say:
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. I’m not saying I want to be in it. 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.
Because of Ryan Reynolds’ success with Deadpool & Wolverine, one might imagine Disney and Lucasfilm would hand him the keys to the Death Star. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Star Wars has been a “family brand” since its inception. And Lucasfilm might feel nervous dipping its toes into purely adult content.
But then, no MCU film boasted an R-rating until Deadpool & Wolverine, and that made all the money in the world. Maybe Ryan Reynolds producing it could soften the blow. Surely, there must be a great Star Wars horror pitch out there just waiting to happen. Lucasfilm has teased zombie Stormtroopers in Clone Wars and Ahsoka, so maybe it’s time to make something like that happen. If anyone could get away with it, it’s Ryan Reynolds.
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