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“I wanted to do a short film of Deadpool interrogating the hunter who killed Bambi’s mom,” Reynolds explained. “But the whole gist of it is that Deadpool is actually just a huge fan. He’s not interrogating — he just wants to know how he could be the most loathed Disney character in the history of Disney… and of course, Disney was like, ‘well, I don’t think that’s ever going to happen.’”
Interestingly enough, the Deadpool star pitched this to the company before that delightful Korg crossover hit social media earlier this summer. Once Disney put the hammer down on his Bambi idea, then they pivoted to the MCU crossover to promote Free Guy. Once that clip hit Twitter and YouTube, MCU fans were in a tailspin.
“Then we came back to them — we wrote the Deadpool-Korg piece… and we sent it to them, and they said, ‘yes!’,” Reynolds said. “So, my next call was to Taika and Taika was in. He’s also in Free Guy so it wasn’t that hard… Taika’s an actual genius so I was thrilled to collaborate with him as this kind of character.”
So, you probably won’t be seeing Deadpool lock horns with the hunter that killed Bambi’s mom anytime soon. (Wow, what a sentence.) But, after that bit with Taika Waititi’s Korg in the commercial, and the MCU getting a multiverse with Loki, maybe a big grand entrance for the beloved Marvel hero might be coming sooner than we all think.
Would you have watched Reynolds’ short film if Disney had gone through with it? Let us know down in the comments!
