And I don’t mean R-rated to be vulgar. R-rated as a Trojan horse for emotion. I always wonder why studios don’t want to just gamble on something like that. I’m not saying I want to be in it.

Reynolds spoke about the pitch on The Box Office podcast, sharing his rationale, “I pitched to Disney, I said, ‘Why don’t we do an R-rated Star Wars property?

Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds recently revealed that he’s had talks with Disney about the possibility of an R-rated Star Wars project, one that he'd write but not star in.

After Andor, people want Star Wars to take more creative or thematic swings. And according to Ryan Reynolds, a real big swing for the series would be a foray into R-rated material.

Also, all of this has to be taken in the context of Reynolds’ collaborator on Deadpool And Wolverine, director Shawn Levy, successfully pitching Disney on his own Star Wars movie, Starfighter ...

Popular on Variety As for his R-rated pitch, Reynolds says it would not be for him to star in. “I’m not saying I want to be in it. That would be a bad fit,” he said.

Despite Reynolds’ familiarity with R-rated projects, the Star Wars franchise has never developed a project in that specific rating. However, the Disney+ series Andor has depicted sensitive material.

Like The Mandalorian, Andor was rated TV-14, but it was probably just a few tweaks away from an R rating. It’d be interesting to see what kind of emotional story Reynolds would want to tell in ...

Warner Bros ‘ period horror movie Sinners had a great Monday earning $7.8M. That’s the second-best Monday ever for a R-rated horror movie after 2017’s It which did $8.76M, and it’s the ...

He said, “I had to take a break because I was very disillusioned by the kind of work I was doing. I was shooting a Tamil song in Switzerland, wearing orange pants and a green shirt. I was gyrating to ...

They saw that making Deadpool PG-13 would never fly with fans and it went on to be the most successful R rated film of all time. Daredevil: Born Again is going down the same avenue and likely ...