Ryan Reynolds Thinks ‘Star Wars’ Is Ready to Be R-Rated

After Andor, people want Star Wars to take more creative or thematic swings. And according to Ryan Reynolds, a real big swing for the series would be a foray into R-rated material.

In a recent episode of The Box Office podcast, the star of Marvel’s Deadpool movies revealed he had pitched such a thing to Disney not too long ago, saying, “Why don’t we do an R-rated Star Wars property?” The way he describes it, this was more of a soft pitch for anything rather than a specific idea, but he suggested it wouldn’t need “A+ characters” or that it be “vulgar. [I mean] R-rated as a Trojan horse for emotion. I always wonder why studios don’t want to just gamble on something like that.”

Most importantly, this isn’t something he’s suggesting himself to star in. He doesn’t think he’s a good fit for the franchise, but he’d be open to producing or writing such a project.

To Reynolds’ point, Star Wars has generally existed in a family-friendly capacity its whole life, to the point its first PG-13 movie was Revenge of the Sith back in 2005. Across the franchise, violence has been censored after a certain point on screen, and its approach to sex has been all the place implicitly, but only recently got into more explicit territory with Andor and The Acolyte. It’s not a question of if the franchise should dip its toes into more adult territory, but whether Disney will let it, and how the wider world will react if it does. Whatever form any R-rated material takes, it will be talked about, for better and worse.

[via The Hollywood Reporter]

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