It's official: Deadpool will be rated R! It's an April First surprise given to us by Ryan Reynolds in an enjoyably bonkers fashion.
News***UPDATE: Ryan Reynolds re-confirms an R-rating for Deadpool and sex scenes (of a kind) in new Tweet below the video.
Today is April Fool’s Day, and by far the best joke is the one that Ryan Reynolds pulled on the fans resigned to a PG-13 rating for Deadpool. Even after 20th Century Fox enjoyed a hard-R February hit with this year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, all signs seemed to point toward the Merc with a Mouth making his true big screen debut on a PG-13 leash—a restraint that Reynolds and JoBlo both appeared to lament today, via tweets and phony news items.
However, it was all a long con worthy of an April First at Bay Side High—which is apparently where Deadpool’s mind is at in the new video!
Below is a faux interview that Reynolds debuted with JoBlo where the actor appears to be reluctantly giving the PR spin on a PG-13 Deadpool…until things go a little screwy. It should have been a dead giveaway something was off when it begins as an Extra interview with Mario Lopez. There is a very good reason for this as Reynolds first throws shade at X-Men Origins: Wolverine, then confirms Deadpool’s R rating with an f-bomb, and finally has a message that every child of the ‘90s (and thus Saved by the Bell fan) can appreciate…
Deadpool opens February 12, 2016 but you can read everything we know about it now by clicking right here.
February 12th. There will be blood. Guns. F-bombs. And graphic, expertly lit French Unicorn sex. #deadpoolRatedR@deadpoolmovie#Aprilpools— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) April 1, 2015
