Ryan Reynolds pitched a Deadpool and Bambi crossover, but Disney shot it down
- Ryan Reynolds pitched a crossover where Deadpool confronts the hunter who killed Bambi's mom.
- According to Reynolds: "Disney was like, 'Well, I don't think that's ever going to happen.'"
Crossovers and shared universes are becoming more and more common as franchises ramp up and studios look to retain audiences' interest in their projects.
But some crossover ideas are a little wackier than others, and it's no surprise that it was Ryan Reynolds who came up with the wackiest idea of them all: Deadpool and Bambi.
In an interview with IGN, Reynolds revealed his idea for a dark film about his character Deadpool and the hunter from Disney's 1942 classic.
"I wanted to do a short film of Deadpool interrogating the hunter who killed Bambi's mom. But the whole gist of it is that Deadpool is actually just a huge fan," Reynolds said.
"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.'"
Reynolds, who has played Deadpool on two feature films so far (before 20th Century Fox was taken over by Disney), said he is well aware of Disney's "pretty storied history" with short films.
The studio made its name with short films, with Walt Disney himself winning a whopping total of 21 Academy Awards for various short films. Sadly, Deadpool x Bambi will not be the next short movie, but Reynolds told SiriusXM Radio's Jess Cagle (via People) he still thinks it's a great idea
"The rug pull of it though is that you think that Deadpool's going to kill the hunter, but Deadpool was actually just a huge fan. He wants to know how he too can be as loathed as the hunter is in the Disney universe," Reynolds said. "And they just shut that down immediately. Like; 'There's absolutely no way you're doing [that].'"
Reynolds has had one short movie as Deadpool already, though. He recently did a four and a half minute short with Taika Waititi as Korg, the rock creature from "Thor: Ragnarok." That was a promotional video for Reynolds' new movie "Free Guys," which also features Waititi.
"Disney was accommodating, but I was shocked that they said yes because Korg is not cheap. Like, that's an expensive character to put on the screen," Reynolds told Cagle. "You know, a lot of, a lot of work goes into making Korg and Taika was game for it."