Ryan Reynolds Discusses His Absurd Deadpool/Bambi Short Film Pitch That Disney Rejected

Ryan Reynolds has revealed one of the pitches he made to Disney for a Deadpool/Bambi crossover that, for reasons that will become obvious, never got off the ground.

Speaking to IGN, Reynolds said he wanted to make a short film where Deadpool interrogates the hunter who killed Bambi's mother. Except the story wouldn't have been about Deadpool trying to get revenge or say his piece. Instead, Deadpool wanted to befriend the killer.

"The whole gist of it is that Deadpool is actually just a huge fan. He's not interrogating--he just wants to know how he could be the most loathed Disney character in the history of Disney... and of course, Disney was like, 'Well, I don't think that's ever going to happen.'"

After getting this pitch rejected, Reynolds came back to Disney with an idea for a Deadpool crossover with Thor's Korg character to help promote Free Guy--and Disney agreed. It marked Deadpool's first steps into the MCU, and it was a natural fit given that Taika Waititi voices Korg, is the director of the newest Thor movies, and stars in Free Guy with Reynolds. You can watch the silly clip below.

"We wrote the Deadpool-Korg piece... and we sent it to them, and they said, 'Yes!'," Reynolds said. "So, my next call was to Taika and Taika was in. He's also in Free Guy so it wasn't that hard... Taika's an actual genius so I was thrilled to collaborate with him as this kind of character."

Free Guy, which is a video game movie in which Reynolds' character realizes he is an NPC in a video game, opens in theaters on August 6.