The creative team behind Deadpool and Wolverine Marvel and Disney gave their jokes a lot of creative freedom, but some things were off-limits, and a crude joke Deadpool wrote in the movie’s script involving Mickey Mouse was asked to cut.
It’s not hard to understand why Disney wanted to remove it when you read the joke, which was included in the film’s script that was recently released to critics for consideration in the screenwriting category.
In the theatrical cut of the movie, when Deadpool meets Blade, Elektra, and Gambit, he’s told there’s a fourth member, whom Wade sincerely hopes is Magneto.
Blade tells Deadpool that Magneto is dead, which makes Deadpool angry that Disney didn’t devote more of its budget to hiring a famous actor like this Ian McKellen or Michael Fassbender.
Wade went on to compare the situation to “Pinocchio sticking his nose up my ass and starting lying like crazy.”
However, in the original script of the film. Deadpool said, “F*CK! Can’t we even afford an X-Men? Disney is so cheap. I can barely breathe, all these Mickey Mouses are stuck in my throat.
You can see a screenshot of the script page below. But, now that you know what the joke was, you now understand why it was ultimately removed from the movie.
Interestingly, the reason this joke was posted was because the director Sean Levy Once said he would take it to his grave. He said:
“The general rule is to never hit anyone and only lose your temper to those who can take it. Of course, Hugh was always the first to burst into laughter when he was talked about in a meta way.
“There was only one line in the entire movie that we were asked to change. Ryan and I, we’ve made a deal that we’re going to carry that line to our graves, but I will say it was replaced with the same dirty dialogue, Pinocchio pushed his face into Deadpool’s ass and started lying like crazy.
“I was like, ‘Ryan, this is your alternate line in response to ‘Can we clean this up?'” This is Ryan Reynolds, bold to the extreme.
Well, now they don’t have to carry that line to the grave.
