LOGAN Explodes at the Box Office With $238.7 Million Globally! What Does This Mean for R-Rated Comic Book Films?
Fans have been wanting to see a hardcore version Wolverine since Fox started making the X-Men films. We finally got it with Logan and fans showed up in droves to finally see Wolverine get crazy violent and draw some real blood.
Director James Mangold and Hugh Jackman got to make the Wolverine movie they wanted to make. A movie that the studio initially was worried about because of it's the dark tone and they actually thought that it was going to be boring!? This just tells you that many of the studio executives don't know their audience and what they want.
Well, this weekend Logan pulled in over $83.3 million domestically and it made a near-record $152.5 million overseas. Altogether, Logan exploded with $237.8 million globally and you can bet that those studio executives who had issues with the movie are all patting each other on the back now and celebrating how smart they are and how good of a job they did. Of course, they are going to want to take credit for the success, but we all know that credit goes to Jackman, Mangold, and their creative team.
So what does this mean for R-rated comic book movies? That same question was raised after Deadpool came out, but some people thought that its success was just a fluke, but no we know that it's more than that! Fox has made two great successful R-rated comic book movies! Fox, who has had their fair share of mediocre comic book film is now leading the way for R-rated comic book films that stay true to the characters in the comics. The way that the fans want to see their favorite characters portrayed, not the watered down PG-13 versions that we've been getting.
We know that Marvel will never do a rated R movie with Disney and I doubt Warner Bros. will ever do it with the DC films, but Fox has now cornered that R-rated comic book movie market and I think they should run with it! I think it's very possible that one day we could see an R-rated X-Men movie. I definitely don't think they'll have any issues with making an R-rated X-Force film at this point. I don't really care what the rating is as long as they are true to the characters that they are bringing to the big screen.
The studio has now seen the real power of giving the comic book fans the films that they want and I don't think they're going to stop at this point. They'd be stupid if they did! What do you think about all this? Do you think Fox should run with the R rated comic book films?