After Andor, individuals need Star Wars to take extra inventive or thematic swings. And in keeping with Ryan Reynolds, an actual large swing for the sequence could be a foray into R-rated materials.

In a latest episode of The Field Workplace podcast, the star of Marvel’s Deadpool films revealed he had pitched such a factor to Disney not too way back, saying, “Why don’t we do an R-rated Star Wars property?” The best way he describes it, this was extra of a mushy pitch for something quite than a selected thought, however he recommended it wouldn’t want “A+ characters” or that or not it’s “vulgar. [I mean] R-rated as a Computer virus for emotion. I all the time surprise why studios don’t need to simply gamble on one thing like that.”

Most significantly, this isn’t one thing he’s suggesting himself to star in. He doesn’t suppose he’s match for the franchise, however he’d be open to producing or writing such a venture.

To Reynolds’ level, Star Wars has typically existed in a family-friendly capability its complete life, to the purpose its first PG-13 film was Revenge of the Sith again in 2005. Throughout the franchise, violence has been censored after a sure level on display, and its method to intercourse has been all of the place implicitly, however solely just lately bought into extra specific territory with Andor and The Acolyte. It’s not a query of if the franchise ought to dip its toes into extra grownup territory, however whether or not Disney will let it, and the way the broader world will react if it does. No matter type any R-rated materials takes, it will be talked about, for higher and worse.

[via The Hollywood Reporter]

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