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  • ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ Trailer Introduces the Merc with the Mouth’s New Sidekick

    ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’ Trailer Introduces the Merc with the Mouth’s New Sidekick

    Once Upon a Deadpool trailer still
    20th Century Fox/YouTube

    Like its predecessor, “Deadpool 2” earned its “R” rating; however, there’s soon to be a (somewhat) more wholesome version of the sequel.

    20th Century Fox dropped the trailer for “Once Upon a Deadpool” on Monday, and it teases the PG-13 version of the film. As you can see in the video, the spirit of “Deadpool 2” isn’t gone. The titular antihero (played Ryan Reynolds) kicks things off with an inappropriate act: He ties up actor Fred Savage to force him to be his new sidekick and read to him à la “The Princess Bride.”

    Watch below.

    Even with their “R” ratings, the Deadpool movies haven’t had any problems drawing people to theaters. Combined, the films have brought in more than $1.51 billion worldwide, per Box Office Mojo data. Still, “Once Upon a Deadpool” does open the door to a wider audience, not to mention give us an more laughs with the Merc with the Mouth.

    “Once Upon a Deadpool” hits theaters Dec. 12.

  • ‘Deadpool 2’ Gets the PG-13 Treatment in ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’

    ‘Deadpool 2’ Gets the PG-13 Treatment in ‘Once Upon a Deadpool’

    20th Century Fox

    The Merc With a Mouth is cleaning up his act — for the most part, anyway.

    Fox has confirmed its rumored plan to re-release “Deadpool 2” as a PG-13 film, re-edited with a bonus framing device that cleans up the R-rated language and violence of the original and repackages the film for a more family-friendly audience. According to Deadline, the idea is to target teen moviegoers who are on holiday break in December.

    “Fox has been asking for a PG-13 basically since the start in 2006,” star Ryan Reynolds explained in an interview with Deadline. “I’ve said no since 2006. Now, this one time, I said ‘Yes’ on two conditions. First, a portion of the proceeds had to go to charity. Second, I wanted to kidnap Fred Savage. The second condition took some explaining…”

    As fans speculated from Reynolds’s hint back in September, Savage will indeed be playing a role similar to his part in “The Princess Bride,” in which he listened to his grandfather read him the titular book. This time, Reynolds/Deadpool is telling the decidedly dirtier tale.

    Part of the inspiration for “Once Upon a Deadpool” is the looming merger between Disney and Fox, and how Disney/Marvel can potentially weave Deadpool into the MCU. Deadline reports that executives will be watching the performance of “Once” very closely — though filmmakers admit that their baby doesn’t necessarily play well with others, and that’s by design.

    “’Deadpool’ has been a unique property and, by definition, what’s in a Deadpool movie is all the stuff that can’t be in any other superhero movie,” writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick told the trade.

    “Once Upon a Deadpool” opens on December 12; it will remain in theaters for a limited run through Christmas Eve.

    [via: Deadline]