Deadpool & Wolverine may have had plenty of graphic and vulgar jokes but there was one that just went too far for Disney.
The R-rated action-comedy’s official script, which was released on Disney’s FYC website, reveals the joke that Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy previously said they had to cut from the film, but wouldn’t confirm the original joke.
“Fuck! What we can’t even afford one more X-Man?” reads the line that Reynolds’ Deadpool was intended to say initially. “Disney is so cheap. I can barely breathe with all this Mickey Mouse cock in my throat.”
In the film’s final cut, the line was ultimately changed to: “Fuck, now Disney gets cheap? It’s like Pinocchio jammed his face in my ass and started lying like crazy.”
After Deadpool & Wolverine was released in July and dominated the box office, breaking multiple records, Levy teased the cut line in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, saying the scrapped dialogue was replaced by a Pinocchio joke. However, at the time, he wouldn’t share what the original joke was.
“There was only one line in the entire movie that we were asked to change,” the filmmaker said in August. “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.”
Levy co-wrote the screenplay with Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Zab Wells.
