Disney Has No Plans To Make R-Rated Marvel Movies

Disney company chairman Bob Iger has said the company will be sticking with the PG-13 family-friendly superhero entertainment. In an investor call, Iger confirmed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe will not be seeing an R-rated film in the mega-franchise, despite the recent uptick in popularity for such blood-soaked entertainment.

Bob Iger made it very clear: “We don’t have any plans to make R-rated Marvel movies”.That makes sense for the studio, even when looking beyond its squeaky clean roots. There are already R-rated stories in the MCU, they just aren’t movies. Over on Netflix, the studio is letting its TV division shed blood and brutality all over shows like Daredevil and Jessica Jones.

For the company to risk tainting parents’ perception of what the Marvel Cinematic Universe is would be a dangerous thing if they were to go down the Deadpool route. One of Deadpool‘s writers, Paul Wernick, recently commented on the shift in positive discussion surrounding more R-rated superhero films coming down the pipeline. He said “That shouldn’t necessarily be the lesson that everyone takes from ‘Deadpool,’ that all super hero films should be R-rated. It’s great that some of them will be R —a lot of our favorite movies from childhood, ‘Die Hard,’ ‘Terminator,’ ‘Matrix,’ they were all R-rated action movies. More than anything, the lesson we hope people take away is: you’ve got to take risks. Sometimes that risk will be an R-rating, sometimes it won’t, but to trust the lunatics is the lesson to take away from Deadpool’s success”.