Not even Ryan Reynolds wanted Ryan Reynolds in his R-rated Star Wars pitch

Which, as people who kind of lost their minds over the recently concluded Andor—which fits what Reynolds is saying, albeit in TV, about as well as any Star Wars project ever has—we say that all sounds pretty good. (If also unlikely: The fact that the very “take the only thing that’s worked lately and run with it” The Mandalorian And Grogu is the first movie the franchise has gotten made in several years suggests that Disney is not feeling particularly experimental when it comes to Star Wars films in the wake of Rise Of Skywalker.)

But not even Reynolds thought he should star in such a film. “That would be a bad fit,” he noted, probably accurately. (Reynolds can be genuinely emotionally affecting in things, including the Deadpool movies, but his default stance is a kind of irony that’s really hard to imagine matching the—admittedly flexible—Star Wars tone.). “I’d want to produce and write or be a part of behind the scenes,” he clarified. “Those kinds of IP subsist really well on scarcity and surprise. We don’t get scarcity really with Star Wars because of Disney+, but you can certainly still surprise people.”

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. (Starring Ryan Gosling, as Levy executes a technically difficult Hollywood Ryan Swap.) Details about Starfighter are basically nil, but we’re guessing it won’t be rated R when it eventually arrives.

[via Variety]

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