Ryan Reynolds has revealed that the studio 20th Century Fox, which has produced Deadpool 2, made the writers cut a joke about Disney from his upcoming antihero film. The Walt Disney Company, which owns studios such as Lucasfilm, Pixar and Marvel, last year reached a deal with Fox to purchase its assets, including its movie and TV divisions. The deal is expected to be completed later this year.
The 41-year-old actor, who co-wrote Deadpool 2 with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, told Entertainment Weekly that Fox forced him to remove a Disney-related joke from the movie and believes that it was a "wise decision". "This is a sore spot for me because there's a joke in the movie that is not in the movie now because – I'm probably not even allowed to say this – Fox made me take it out," Reynolds said.
"It had more to do with Disney, and they made me take it out. As I look back at it, I think maybe that was a wise decision," he added. Deadpool 2, which also stars Josh Brolin, TJ Miller, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapacic, and Leslie Uggams, will hit the theatres on May 18.