Director Shawn Levy tells THR how they had "absolute creative freedom" when it came to the R-Rated tone of 'Deadpool & Wolverine.' Levy also reveals how he is glad he can stop dodging questions about who cameos in the film now that it's out.
00:00So with this film, when will you know you're ready to do the next MCU superhero movie?
00:07I know you've been courted before.
00:09I've read all those rumors and it is nice.
00:12I'll say this, it's been an incredibly gratifying experience making this movie.
00:16I know how happy I am with the process and the results.
00:20I know how happy Marvel is with the process and the results.
00:24So I won't be surprised if there's more Marvel in my future as to when.
00:27It would have to be the right idea, the right story, and the right moment.
00:32And probably after I get about 48 hours of rest.
00:34You have a lot of travel to catch up on, right?
00:37You've been traveling.
00:38We've been on this press tour, which is basically a boys' trip paid by Disney.
00:44Did you get any pushback with the R rating at first?
00:47No, man.
00:47You know, we kept waiting for pushback.
00:49We would turn in drafts of the script.
00:51We would turn in cuts of the movie.
00:52And we waited for what we thought was the inevitable Disney or Marvel request to tone it down.
00:58Those requests never came.
01:00We had absolute creative freedom.
01:03Talk about Rhett and Paul, too.
01:05Ryan said he literally would take money out of his own paycheck to have them unset.
01:09I mean, what was it like having almost that crew of friends working all together, including yourself?
01:14Yeah, the writing of this movie was really interesting because you have, you know, you have basically the franchise stewards in Ryan, Rhett, and Paul, who wrote the first two.
01:26And now you have me coming in and Zeb Wells coming in.
01:29And the five of us really respected the diversity of viewpoints.
01:33Some of us were new to it.
01:34Some of us were coming to it as vets.
01:37And some, like me, were coming to it as fans.
01:39And we would literally jam on story ideas and rewrite each other's pages.
01:44And eventually, Ryan and I literally spent months in an apartment just passing a laptop back and forth.
01:51And the writing of this movie is one of Ryan's and my favorite part of this process.
01:56Did it become a joke amongst the three of you and the entire crew about Blake and Taylor being in the film?
02:02I wouldn't say it became a joke, but I'll say that the cultural noise on this one has been inordinately loud.
02:07And I'm just happy the movie can finally come out and I can stop dodging questions.
02:12Could you see yourself writing something for Taylor?
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