Again, the studio higher-ups cooled to the idea of making a rated-R superhero movie with blood, and swearing, and dismemberment and masturbation jokes. For years, folks at Marvel, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. have kept their comic book movies family-friendly and rated PG-13 in order to reach the widest audience possible.
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Jackman and his Wolverine character is a punchline throughout Ryan’s hit new movie Deadpool, and in one pivotal scene, the actor’s titular character wears a Hugh Jackman mask to hide his burned face. However, as Deadpool is doing fine without the Avengers touch, and having a better debut than all but three MCU movies, it looks like the X-Men will continue to exist in their own little world for the time being. The bad guys that Deadpool kills don’t die sanitary deaths like they do in PG-13 superhero movies-they splatter onto billboards and crunch between cars, with their guts and brains spilling out of their bodies. If Marvel isn’t already weighing up turning the new Ms Marvel, Spider-Gwen and Squirrel Girl into movies, they are bound to be soon enough.
February is generally seen as a slow time for the box office, sandwiched between the Christmas box office season and the start of the summer movie season. “Everything in that movie was about story and character”. Ryan Reynolds in particular has writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to thank for crafting him a great role, not to mention reviving his career, so it makes sense he’ll star in another movie written by the pair.
It was all thanks to the Deadpool test footage that leaked in 2014.
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After Ryan Reynolds’ rampaging, risqué Deadpool surprised forecasters, reaping an unprecedented President’s Day holiday weekend domestic gross of $150 million (with $132.1 million foreign), it appears that the wheels of a high-profile comeback are already spinning. Check out Deadpool. It’s clear from the first moment to the last that this film is the product of people that truly care about the character. You can check out Reynolds during his visit to the Ellen DeGeneres show below.
