WOLVERINE 3 May End Up With An R Rating
Deadpool's making some serious money at the box office, so it's easy to imagine the executives at 20th Century Fox looking at all of that cash rolling in and frantically trying to figure out how to rework their upcoming superhero slate in order to try to recreate that success. One movie for which that tactic would actually sort of make sense is Wolverine 3, Hugh Jackman's final solo movie as the beloved X-Men character.
According to a photo on Reddit — read: take this with a giant grain of salt, because it could be Photoshopped — Fox had some marketing materials on display during their Toy Fair presentation, and this was one of them (notice the potential rating in the bottom right corner):
Bumping the film up to an R-rating would allow James Mangold to really go all out in depicting Wolverine's berserker rage, and the added violence would separate this from the other movies in the series. And since Jackman started out playing this character sixteen years ago, maybe Fox would be OK with missing out on some of the younger crowd with a PG-13 and instead catering to those who have been following Jackman's journey as this character from the beginning.
Again, we're certainly not taking this as confirmation, but as a hint that an R-rated Wolverine movie might be possible. Fans have been wanting to see that for a long time now, so it'd be nice if Fox granted that wish for Jackman's last stand.