James Mangold on LOGAN's R-Rating and the Films That Influenced It

After Deadpool exploded at the box office we knew that rated R movies still have the power to become smash hits...if done right. Fans started to speculate that we would start seeing a lot more R-rated comic book movies that would allow filmmakers to play around more with the sex, violence, and harsh language when adapting certain properties. 

Not long after Deadpool was released, we learned that Logan would get an R-rating. When recently talking about how Deadpool influenced the rating of Logan, director James Mangold said: 

"Two things happened. We were already down the road of 'R' before Deadpool had been released. I think that they did know, the studio, they felt that they had a real success even though it hadn't been released yet that they had something people would be really excited to see. But, I think, you have to give all the studios credit, but particularly Fox, in the sense that they were aware, acutely aware, that these bloated $200 million aren't quite creating the sensation they were five or six years ago and you get into a kind of arms race with spending more, casting more, louder, faster, more, louder, faster, more... But at some point, I can only speak for myself and there are some really good ones that come out, but I find my eyes rolling up in my head even as my ears and eyes are going blown out with amazing visuals and sounds, I find myself just overloading."

We've heard before that the plan for Logan was always going to be in the R-rated realm before Deadpool was even released. This statement gives us a new aspect of what the studio was thinking during the process. It's cool that they were able to put their trust in Mangold to do his thing with Logan, and make no mistake, Logan is 100% his thing, done his way. He went on to reveal the films that influenced his movie:

"I swore if I was gonna do another film in this arena myself, that I wanted to do a film that was my kind of movie, meaning more as if I took these characters from the X-Men universe and put them in Walk the Line, or 3:10 to Yuma, or Girl Interrupted, and made a film of mine with them as opposed to transporting myself into their world."

Those are some great films to be inspired by and you can see all of them in the trailers that we've seen for the movie. Logan hits theaters March 3, 2017.

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